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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by pharrari, Jan 10, 2017.

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  1. Jan 10, 2017 #1
    pharrari

    pharrari Light Load Member

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    Hey everyone! I got my cdl back Dec 2012. I drove with Stevens, Indian River, and fuel Eagle Transport. I've never had any accidents until I got hired on to with Oakley Transport. I had an at fault accident under 90 days of employment. They hired me and I'm about 75 miles away from the terminal. Anywho, I had a fender bender with another truck, it's trailer is made of steel and I hit it making a right turn. The officer ticketed me for failing to yield at red light. The truck had to be towed and went to the consignee I was picking up from. The company told me to take the weekend off to heal from my impact. Although I laid all of my cards out with safety, they had to let me go because I was under 90 days of employment. So now I have a ticket and my DAC report will be banged up.

    Is there any hope for me to get hired on again? I've never had any prior accidents in my lifetime not have I had any DUIs. What jobs in the CDL field are available to me at this point? Are there any good paying local gigs I could make decent pay with? I am out of Florida.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thank you.
     
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  3. Jan 10, 2017 #2
    Chinatown

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    One driver in Tampa rolled a truck and Florida Beauty Express hired him for local running around south and central Florida.
    TransAm might hire you for OTR.
    Carolina Logistics - maybe
     
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  4. Jan 10, 2017 #4
    goose0324

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  5. Jan 10, 2017 #4
    goose0324

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    You have to get a good attorney and he must dismissed the ticket from your MVR. Then you just have to deal with the DAC and probably PSP report.
     
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  6. Jan 10, 2017 #6
    pharrari

    pharrari Light Load Member

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    Thank you Goose and Chinatown. I'm very thankful for the responses. I want to get back on my feet and show an outfit that I'm a great driver. I liked what I had but now it's gone. I'm trying to stay local if I can. I never had an LTL job before. I wish I could do tank again, it was very simplistic.
     
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  7. Jan 10, 2017 #6
    ChaoSS

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    A good way to show a company that you are a great driver is to not hit other trucks so hard that you have to get towed. Just a thought.
     
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  8. Jan 10, 2017 #7
    pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    This is more then just a fender bender.I wish you luck finding a company that'll hire you for now.Maybe go door to door in your area.
     
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  9. Jan 10, 2017 #8
    Ridgeline

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    How do you hit a truck next to you making a right turn?
     
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  10. Jan 10, 2017 #9
    x1Heavy

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    It's not a fenderbender where a tow is involved.

    It's a automatic problem when Police, Ambulance, Cornoer, Tow wrecker etc are called.

    You will spend some time not being able to get hired. Call it 6 months to a year. Unless you find a company locally like a Paving dump truck thing as a workaround who do not use DAC. (I did 3 years with companies without DAC to worry about. That worked out well.)

    In trucking you hit anything it's going to be preventable against you somehow. Don't be hitting stuff. If I dwelled on all the things Ive had to do to save lives over the years I'll go crazy. But I did not hit them or people. So it did not happen. (Maybe I should have...)
     
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  11. Jan 10, 2017 #10
    pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    I'm trying to figure out just what kind of a right turn it was to have the vehicle get towed.
     
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