Cracked mentors front bumper. HELP!!!!!

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by bluetie, Dec 10, 2016.

  1. CasanovaCruiser

    CasanovaCruiser Road Train Member

    1,712
    2,669
    Jun 2, 2015
    Indiana
    0
    This is not a recordable or reportable or whichever other way you like to say it.

    Reportable accidents refer to DOT. No tow truck was called, no outside party even involved, no injuries. No legal record of this whatsoever.
    The only thing that's gonna be on your DAC if anything will be marked as an incident not an accident and swift will probably mark it as "during training" too.

    By the way it's good to see another young gun out driving - just be ready to laugh when you go check in at the shipping office and they automatically tell you the warehouse workers have to use the employee entrance lol
     
  2. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.

  3. 8thnote

    8thnote Road Train Member

    1,980
    3,687
    Aug 12, 2013
    Chattanooga, TN
    0
    When I was a trainer at Stevens years ago, one of my trainees did something very similar to the OP. We went to WalMart the next day and bought some Bondo, one of those buffer block thingies, and some touch-up paint. We each paid half and after an hour of work in the parking lot, no one at the safety dept ever had to find out.
     
  4. CasanovaCruiser

    CasanovaCruiser Road Train Member

    1,712
    2,669
    Jun 2, 2015
    Indiana
    0
    That's the real training right there! Lol
     
    Diesel Dave Thanks this.
  5. #1don

    #1don Medium Load Member

    469
    538
    Mar 26, 2013
    somewhere down south
    0
    MENTOR!!!! that always sounded like a joke to me. especially when the so called MENTOR at most bottom feeder companies are still wet behind the ears themselves
     
    Diesel Dave Thanks this.
  6. purpleprime

    purpleprime Medium Load Member

    681
    720
    May 30, 2013
    spickard, mo
    0
    But with freightliner ther is no need to replace the entire bumber the crapcadias are a 3 piece bumper the end is all that needs replaced
     
  7. alghazi

    alghazi Road Train Member

    1,173
    4,267
    Aug 29, 2014
    0
    This is how it should be handled.
     
  8. TROOPER to TRUCKER

    TROOPER to TRUCKER Anything Is Possible

    7,678
    12,749
    Dec 15, 2014
    Charlotte, NC
    0
    The one and only good thing I'll say about Averitt is the training. The entire 5 weeks my trainer was riding shotgun. The only time we ran team was when my father in law passed and I needed to be home from Jersey quick.

    After the 5 weeks was a 120 mile driving test for a delivery. When that is passed you still have a week of backing school.
     
  9. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

    18,756
    45,806
    Sep 18, 2006
    the road less travelled
    0

    Bumper is an assembly, doesn't come from FL in pieces separately, although it must be assembled.

    Doesn't cost 2 grand, either, lease company gets them for less than half that.

    Going forward is easier, backing not so much. Some of these places are trying, and I get there often.

    Moesle Wholesaling off 47th is a good example, so is Charles Austin off South Canal. Jewell Evanston is legendary, the stuff of nightmares. Construction can make the mundane, head scratching lyrics difficult.

    Stuff happens, even with experience, and I deliver where the bypass costs tolls and miles and time, there is no good way from Harvey to Evanston that doesn't involve the 57 and 94 routes.
     
  10. purpleprime

    purpleprime Medium Load Member

    681
    720
    May 30, 2013
    spickard, mo
    0
    I bought jus the end section from freightliner in springfield mo for my 2016 cascadia cost me 120 bucks , drilling all the rivets and putting it back together was a pia though
     
    25(2)+2 Thanks this.
  11. 25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

    18,756
    45,806
    Sep 18, 2006
    the road less travelled
    0
    Never get to Springfield, the shop told me the only way to get individual pieces was off a removed one, the wings weren't available through FL separately.

    I could ask again, but lease trucks don't belong to either the company or the drivers.
     
  • Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.