Had a wreck, needing advice on what to do now.

It is still not a good idea to swerve, and I would not recommend that to anyone.

As far as the DOT is concerned, again, they don't care if it was preventable or not. They look at the causes of an accident, meaning who or what was at fault. A company decides if it was preventable. The DOT cannot place an accident on your DAC report. They can only place an AT FAULT accident on your MVR. CSA points are assessed via a roadside inspection by a CVSA certified LEO only.

 

once again its like you recruit for the worst of the worst. By sending anyone to these garbage companies, you're not helping them.

 

It can happen and has. Remember in Texas a few years back a subcompact tapping a Pepsi truck in his steer, which caused him to lose control and flip it over the median barrier. Things like this do happen and usually the little ####### in the car will take off, leaving the driver to take the blame.

 

These guys are unemployed and no one else will hire them. How am I not helping them if I give them information that gets them off unemployment? These drivers want to work; they don't want to be members of the 47%er welfare leeches.

If you have better advice to get them off unemployment, you should share the information.

 

Yes. Better companies. Carolina Cargo, Buell, they are the absolute worst of the worst. They'd actually be better off unemployed than to work for scum like that. I know you're trying to help, but companies like that are just bad news.

 

Hey Vety15, check your inbox again. Sent you a 2nd msg with info forgot to include earlier. Hope everything works out. Take care.

 

I never would swerve in a gasoline tanker ,that's for sure. You can bet the tanker is going to roll and a very good chance there's going to be a fire. We had two drivers that both were driving down the freeway in the right lane at night with a auto either stopped or backing up to get off the freeway. Both trucks rolled and both drivers burned to death.

If I was hauling general freight then yea I'd swerve if I could. If I ran head on and killed someone it would be hard to live with.

 

If it came down to me swerving onto a shoulder and possibly losing control of the truck or nailing a car head on, assuming the collision wasn't due to anything I did, I'm going to maintain my lane and try to reduce my speed. And that's it. And if everyone in that car, which is full of nuns and babies, dies, I won't lose a lick of sleep. Now you might call that cold, callous, unfeeling, and have some choice descriptive names for me, but that's ok. Because I'll still be alive. If someone does something stupid or wrong on the road and expects ME to fix it for them by putting myself, my truck, my load or my cargo in danger they are sadly mistaken. The culpability is on THEM for not keeping their vehicle under control. Do you think the folks who built the median would lose sleep because it didn't stop the car from coming across the highway? The people who designed and built the car because it didn't stop them from dieing? The cops who weren't there to catch the person speeding right before they lost control? The EMTs/nurses/doctors who weren't on the scene to give immediate medical care? If not them, then why should I when the accident wasn't caused by me?

I will do what I can if I have the time to properly assess the situation and choose a safer course of action. But given the rapid nature of most accidents I'm keeping that puppy as straight as I can until I can verify there's a safe way for me to get out of the way.

Now, if I did something stupid and it resulted in my heading towards some innocents, ya, it's ditch time.

 

a driver that started with me 18 months ago at transam
rolled the whole rig
and 2 weeks later was hired to drive doubles for some company
probably isn't the best company but
there is life after an accident

 

I think you did the right thing. It's not your fault the mud was so deep. S--t happens when you're trucking. If you belonged to OOIDA you could have called them about getting the accident pulled from DAC. If that is the only thing on your record, you may try Dart Transit. I was leased to them 3 times and was still leased to them when I had my last back surgery.
I did alright with them and when I wanted to go home for a couple weeks, I din't have any problems out of them at all. Just keep the wheels rolling and don't turn down any loads just because they are heavey. They like it when a driver pulls them out of a pinch. If you go to the Lancaster,TX yard to run out of, ask for DJ to be your fleet manager. Tell her that TJ sent you. She will tak good care of you.