Fired for barely touching pole, no damage

Winner. I like how you said that.

The other problem is, for many old school trucking types, RESTRICTIONS translates as useless in their mind. Especially when used in a conversation about driving their truck.

Hey people, do not pay money to go to school to get restricted. If you were given free schooling or deeply discounted schooling, sure, that’s understandable...but to pay full price to be restricted? That makes zero sense. About as much sense as signing up to drive for CR England.

 

Look for a smaller company. The megas are bad. You dont need to start with a mega.

 

Do some applications and you'll have a new job within 48 hours.
Add Navajo Express to those already recommended.
Again, submit the online applications before calling.

 

That's the best advice in the thread, anytime anything happens, no matter how trivial it seems, take a picture. I had a woman slam into my tandems in Tampa, she got stuck in between the trailer tires and then proceeded to throw it in reverse. She bent the bumper to a 90° and ripped the whole grill assembly off. She then pulled alongside me and when the cops got there she told him I came into her lane and did the damage, so he writes me a ticket for failure to maintain a lane. I had pictures of everything, but the one that saved my 6 was the one of her bald front tire with steel belt coming out. I had to go to court but she knew I had the pictures and she and the cop didn't show. Judge found me not guilty of everything! Pictures, always take pictures.

 

Something else people like her do is say, "It's ok, let's just forget it and go our own way." A month later you get a notice you're being sued. Get those pictures!

 

I don't know man, it looks bent, the paint at the bottom is chipping off also, it looks like you hit it pretty hard, I hate to say it but if you hit a car that hard you'd have done substantial damage, maybe that's how they're thinking.

 

Yeah, that doesn’t look like a tap. Did the security guard have to yell at you to stop?

 

that alone...the automatic restriction, is doing as much harm to you, than the hit to the pole.

i'd recommend going back to your CDL school (if you paid for one) and get some time in a manual transmission, and a new road test.

 

problem is, that pole could have been hit by another driver just before you hit it, but the security guard did not see it...