Non Preventable Incident

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Evie3, Jul 26, 2017.

  1. Moose1958

    Moose1958 Road Train Member

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    Yep, not only this but some military weapons depend on GPS as does most aviation.
     
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  3. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Wow. Not sure how to respond to that. I guess millions of gps users and devices are wrong? Or maybe was posted by someone who was frozen in the late 70's when the technology first began being developed, and was just thawed and revived? Welcome back.
     
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  4. TaterWagon#62

    TaterWagon#62 Medium Load Member

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    I have seen a thing or two. I will not willingly be bit by a missed byte.

    You do not need a speed reading on your video to prove what happened. Maybe your modern electronics ALWAYS live up to perfection in their performance, but I highly doubt it.

    Especially GPS which I can't seem to be able to get to locate me consistently. I have the fastest truck in the known universe: According to my GPS tracking I went 300 miles to another city and back to a spot 1 mile from where I started in 3 minutes. What a time to be alive!

    But if you want to pay extra for a feature you don't need and which may cause you issues... Go for it. It's a freeish country.
     
  5. TaterWagon#62

    TaterWagon#62 Medium Load Member

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    It'll work like a charm until it gets marching orders from Murphy. It's a feature you don't need, costs extra and if it glitches at the right moment will cause you a lot of problems.
     
  6. TaterWagon#62

    TaterWagon#62 Medium Load Member

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    Yep. That dashcam with GPS that you bought at Walmart for $150 is absolutely the same thing. That's why ICBMs only cost a couple thousand dollars each. /sarcasm

    We're talking dashcams here. The GPS receiver in that camera is not high quality and certainly not military grade. The GPS in your phone is maybe a little better (or not) because that is where the dashcam manufacturers likely sourced the unit. From the cell phone industry.

    The GPS unit in your truck (as part of an electronic logging system or as a stand alone GPS unit) is of way better quality than the anything in a phone. Let alone a "cheap" dash cam.
     
  7. Evie3

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    Well, it's been 8 weeks and my son was involved in another non preventable. Saturday morning and clear sunny weather. He was stopped in traffic on an interstate at the site of an accident involving a fatality and 2 people who were medevacced (I'm guessing I misspelled that) by helicopter to a nearby hospital trauma center. He was in a parking lot, the highway was closed for over an hour. He was packed in, but tried to make as much room as possible. A few fire trucks passed him safely, then one bumped his trailer (no damage to trailer) and hit his truck, damaged his mirrors on one side, going 40 mph (it didn't even attempt to slow down). My son said if the angle of impact was just slightly different, his truck would have had significant damage and he would have been physically injured, possibly killed. The fire truck lost its own mirror, which wound up on the pavement next to his drive tire. Since he was stationary, my son got out of the truck has the names and contact information of lots of witnesses, took pix, got a police report, etc. As they were wrapping up the main investigation, and a trooper was writing up the report about my son's truck being hit, he handed the mirror back to the driver of the fire truck, who thanked him and apologized.

    I am not a trucking insider, is it common to be involved in this kind of incident this frequently? Wow, talk about stressful, they definitely don't pay our truck drivers and first responders enough.

    My son also expressed a concern that it doesn't look good to have multiple incidents like this in your file, even if they aren't preventable. Is that really true?
     
  8. bigguns

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    If it weren’t for bad luck he wouldn’t have any luck at all.
     
  9. Evie3

    Evie3 Light Load Member

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    You'll have a hard time convincing me of that - I don't have enough faith to believe in random luck :)

    Someone commented awhile back that their mother didn't like them being a truck driver because it's a dangerous profession, and I said I couldn't argue with that. She is really starting to look smart to me, except I have other reasons to believe that my son is where he is supposed to be right now and this is going to work out for him.

    I wonder how often this kind of thing happens to most truck drivers. Obviously if a person is spending their working hours on the highway, they are more likely to have an incident than someone who works in an office like me. I wonder if it's also regional, we are on the east coast and I'm guessing that's probably the area with the most traffic and traffic accidents.
     
  10. wis bang

    wis bang Road Train Member

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    The Medical portion of a reportable accident says 'required immediate medical treatment away from the scene' so someone seeking medical treatment after the fact is NOT reportable

    ALSO If there is a vehicle towed or medical activity, if the driver receives a citation he has to go for Post accident drug and alcohol testing.
     
  11. crb

    crb Road Train Member

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    That may be a company policy, but just because a vehicle was towed does not require a drug test per law. Having a vehicle towed will make it dot reportable though.
     
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