My Deer Incident

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Cerberus, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. Cerberus

    Cerberus Medium Load Member

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    I hope i am posting this in the right place. I say truck accidents and figured it would go here. I apologize ahead of time if i am posting this in the wrong place. Okay now the situation,

    I was heading down the highway in georgia headed to florida last saturday evening about thirty minutes south of macon when i say a deer in the middle of the road on the three lane. He turned around and ran directly into my truck. Driving seventy miles an hour there was not much i could do to avoid him. I spun him into the middle lane and a four wheeler ran it over also. It was a good sized deer and i am not sure but it had to have done some serious damage to the smaller vehicle after looking at the damage to my truck. I informed gainey of the incident and they said they will take care of it after the truck gets back to the conley yard. And was told i would probably just get a diferent truck. I was very surprised by this and was set back by them not wanting to get it taken care of at the nearest frieghtliner place. Just more proof of them going under and filing the bankruptcy two weeks ago. Gainey is a big mess as a company now but that is a different story. Here are the pictures of my truck and damage.
     

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  3. Cerberus

    Cerberus Medium Load Member

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    Here are the other pictures of it. Notice the deer hair.
     

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  4. honor roll

    honor roll Road Train Member

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    A company that doesn't care
     
  5. leannamarie

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    Glad to hear that you are okay.
     
  6. Lilbit

    Lilbit Road Train Member

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    Is that a headlight that's missing? Isn't it illegal to run without both headlights working?
     
  7. Cybergal

    Cybergal Road Train Member

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    YOU posted it in the right place Jack and thanks for sharing those photos.

    Glad that you are ok.
     
  8. The Beeze

    The Beeze Bobtail Member

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    Our little brown friends strike again. We need to have an extended hunting season.
     
  9. Wen782

    Wen782 Medium Load Member

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    Won't you get nailed for missing lights?? That ticket won't be on them, it'll be on you.
     
  10. Cerberus

    Cerberus Medium Load Member

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    see that is what i thought too but the scale house or inspection station didn't pull me in. I figured i would just tell them the truth and see what happened. Since it hust happened i was hoping they would let me go onto my destination and at the time i was guessing gainey would be a stand up company and send it too a freightliner dealership to get it fixed. After dealing with gainey for as long as i have i am more surprised by my thinking that they actually cared about there drivers.
     
  11. Cerberus

    Cerberus Medium Load Member

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    not sure. i will look into it before i move it again though. probably will make a few phone calls before hand.
     
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