Need advice: Fired

There are always the perfict people, whom may not even be drivers that have all this negitive crap to post, ignor them..

 

Does the ticket have the actual words 'failure to yield at a red light' ? If so, you might be able to beat that ticket just on a technicality because the words should have read 'failure to stop' at a red light.

I'm curious where, how and why the crash happened. Was the trailer you hit next to you also making a right turn? Was the truck and trailer going perpindicular to your lane of travel ? You originally mentioned you looked left then looked left again and proceeded. Did you not look right? Do you have dashcam video footage of the crash?

 

If he stopped, as he indicated, and then went when someone else had the right a way, failure to yield is exactly the violation.

 

If you look up Yield, it means roll through at 15 miles per hour.
If you look up Red LIght it means stop at 0 miles per hour until safe to proceed.

What I hate is the Yield sign is slowly replacing the Merge sign all across the nation at freeway onramps. All because people think Merge is a character from the Simpsons.

 

Failure to yield at red light means failure to yield the right of way when taking a right hand turn. In other words, stopping, then going when you don't have the right of way.

 

I have never heard of failure to yield at a red light. Maybe he technically is guilty of failing to yield the right of way but in doing so he failed to stay stopped not failed to Yield which technically means rolling 15 miles per hour max.

 

You misunderstand failure to yield.

 

That would be the route I would take. Do not allow those points on your MVR. Should not cost more than $500. I've had a coupe tickets for various things dismissed. Each time lawyer charged me $300. One was in Hernando,.. the other in Pasco. One was driving my truck down a road signed for no trucks over 10 tons. I like to use the route anyway,.. still use the route today. The other was for speeding in my personal vehicle.

So stuff happens. No one is perfect or innocent.

Hurst

 

You know, I hate to advocate for lawsuits and such... by any chance, if the OP had complained of being forced to drive tired and the company still had him run too hard, the liability is on the company for all this. The OP would actually have a case for wrongful termination if he was fired within a few months of being forced to drive exhausted. That's one way of looking at this. If he was in fact micro sleeping at the wheel, that's dangerous period. If the dispatch was aware of it and were like, "make it happen, Driver," then they owe him for a hell of a lot of damages.

 

The reason you didn't see the truck was because you did not stop. The trick remained in your blind spot until you were on top of it. This same thing had happened with trains at railroad crossings.