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You can dispute your dac.You will first be asked to resolve it with cr England.
You can ask them to take it off.You can then submit your version,which dac folks
will add to the negative report that cr England put up.
Potental employers will then see your side of what happened,when viewing your dac.
I would be VERY careful,and think about what you write/say about this accident.
Think about what a potential employer is gonna take as acceptable for this accident.
The non dot recorded,should help you some what.
You were traveling waaaay behind that truck,and that ice just slid forever,and ever.
You NEVER tried to make that truck slide again (cmon man! Use your head!)

 

Many drivers appear to feel most comfortable with a following distance of less than 1 second at ~65 mph. Perhaps we ought to consider physics and reason instead of "feelings".

 

Driving on ice and snow is a common sense thing. You're from Missouri. You've seen it before. Their training has nothing to do with your rear end accident.

 

If they were jumping off a bridge would you?

 

Roads got bad in Erick on Sunday, we chose a 3 hour following distance. As a result we're still employed.

Dispute DAC. Move on. Learn.

You sound like my wife's 25 year old son. Never his fault.

 

What would a trainer do? Sit on your lap and drive?

 

It appears that you don't give much thought to what you say or how it comes across. Go back and actually READ the post I previously quoted. Now you say you were not doing what you previously said you WERE doing. Make up your mind. You need to stop trying to defend yourself...you are making yourself look bad. Just admit you had an accident. You were following to close for road conditions and it got you. Learn from it and don't do it again. Everyobe makes mistakes. You are 23 so you dont have the life experience most of us have...let alone ROAD experience that you need. Experience comes with time...through...making mistakes. You don't learn from success you learn ftom failure. Right now the biggest lesson you need to learn is responsibility. Responsibility means a lot of things but how it pertains to THIS situation is 1.) Accepting that you made an error in judgement. 2.) Admitting that you made an error and quit blaming other people. 3.) Learning how to make sure it never happens again. Thats part of being a responsible adult and driver. Next is making sure a future rmployer belives those 3 things.

 

1. Crashes aren't "accidents". They almost invariably involve "willful misconduct" as the FHWA phrases it.
2. Although rarely recognized as such, absence of a crash is the absolute lowest standard of driver competence.
3. Motorists/drivers often get away with all sorts of asshattery for years before it results in being involved in a crash, and sometimes it never does. How many crashes they might cause is indeterminable.

 

Gutterless I can't help you as far as what companies will look at you but from some of the details that you posted I'm sure you can find other employment EXCEPT........if you go into a prospective employer with the attitude that you are conveying on here ie: It ain't my fault, 24 seconds is to far, everyone else was doing it etc, etc then if I was them I WOULD NOT hire you in a heart beat. You need to man up and accept responsibility and quit being in denial about the facts. No offense but there's an awful lot of us on here (but just speaking for myself) that were young and stupid just like you and had to learn the hard way so take heed of what people on here are saying. Good luck.