Truck Accident

good deal , call em to protect yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Y'know - in a number of other threads, we've commented a bit on how 4-wheelers and the like drivers suffer from a me-first attitude. Which gets them in trouble like this.

They just don't realize that it's the wrong me first attitude. It shouldn't be "me first in line",it should be "me first in safety". *Always* protect yourself first. Protection of others comes naturally from that.

 

Wait till you get out there full time. You will find this same attitude in alot of the truck drivers now.

 

I was PARKED at a rest area for a couple hour nap(this was before the new HOS). I got up and sat down in my driver seat. About that time some wrinkled up old geezer walks up to my truck and starts pounding on my door, I roll down the window and he starts screaming that I backed into his camper. I screamed back at him that there is no way that I could have backed into his camper because my parking brakes are set and I just woke up. He screams to his wife to "call the police before the driver takes of!!" Of course every one in the rest area is coming to see what was going on. I go look at the front of his camper and yes there is some damage to the front bumper(one of those van looking jobs).In the meantime, I call safety and ask safety man if the gps system can tell when truck is in gear and what gear it is in,etc.. Safety basically said that if you fart in the seat, we will know what you had to eat. I explained to safety man what is going on and that the police are on there way to the rest area. He said when police gets there to have the officer call him direct.Safety man pulled up the report and confirmed that the brakes have been set for the past couple of hours and that I have not released brakes or put truck in gear.Police show up, makes a report,blah,blah,blah.The entire time the old man is screaming and carrying on, insisting that I backed into him.Meanwhile,the wife is sitting there like she was in a Prozac induced high.The cop comes to my truck and I tell him that my safety men wants to talk to him and I handed him my cell phone. After the cop was done talking to my safety man, the cop tears up the report, tells me to have a nice day , gets in his car and drives off. So, I climb in the truck, and leave. I drive a few miles down the road to the truckstop, go in to grab a cup of coffee and a "samich", sitting at the counter is the cop, I sat down next to him and asked him why did he tear up the report. Safety man told him same thing he told me about knowing everything that is going on with the truck and that the truck was never taken out of gear, so it is impossible that I backed into him. I think the old geezer was looking for someone to pay for him a new bumper and some bodywork and my company could afford to fix his camper more than he could afford it.

 

They were lucky you were there and paying attention, but if were back far enough why did you have to put so much presser on the breaks.