trucks in ditches

Yes for the most part you are fired and very hard to get another gig. If you have been with the company awhile you might be given another chance, but doesn't look good on your record.

 

Yep.
Jack knifes or rollovers are career killers.

 

I don't have any real data but I would say that most of these incidents are driver error. Over driving the truck for the conditions not using good judgment. No freight is worth the risk in inclimate weather or bad road conditions. Park it and make a phone call.

 

and then there is the driver jacks a truck
gets fired
next week hired pulling wiggle wagons
go figure

 

Unless,of Course, You own your own truck....
Insurance MAY go up,(depending on how long and if prior claims)....But it isnt a career killer if you make a mistake.
parking is the best answer in bad weather

Ive had my share of mess ups early on in my career..But then again ,those were different times..Things werent an 'issue'..Like today
everything is so expensive that carriers just say "Your Fired" instead of giving chances.

its actually a shame that a human makes a mistakle and his career must end.... Only in trucking!!

 

so if your driving your truck and it gets so bad u have to stop in the road along with other traffic or like in Atlanta the whole road got shut down you will get fired ? I have heard you can be driving and it be sunny one minute and 3 miles down the road it is a whiteout I'm not talking about the jackknifes or wrecks I'm just talking about just having to stop or the road getting shut down and you cant go anywhere . I don't see how the stuff in Atlanta even happen I mean it was only 2 or 3 inch's of snow

 

The answer to your three questions are, Probably, Likely and definitely! It happens. It's life.

No, of course not. You don't get fired for getting caught in a traffic jam. But you are a whole lot better off getting off the road and parking before it happens.

 

the southeast shuts down, due to the fact that they hardly see snow. so they don't have any equipement for those rare occasions.

i personally think it's funny they act like it's the end of the world. although i'm not smiling at the states per say. but the friends i have down there.

around these parts. we get 2 inches ALL the time towards the end of the season. usually by that time the states have ran out of money for snow removal and we're left to fend with mother nature to dry out. but we don't shut down like the southeast does.

but when it' comes to the extreme cold they are getting. better to be safe then sorry.

 

If you work for the mega's you'll probably get canned, smaller companies tend to have safety directors who has common sense to know that **** happens... One of my last companies we had a guy who had a jackknife in some ice outside of Omaha, they didn't fire him. He didn't get his safety bonus but he didn't get fired. He really didn't do much damage to the truck, it probably helped he was a 15 year vet and that was his first accident of any kind...

But usually Snow isn't to bad, guys feel like they can drive faster then others or is empty (or a combination of both) and then get themselves in trouble. Ice is something you really can't deal with, you can chain up if it's urgent, but I rather wait it out.