Failure to control ticket in company CMV on icy roads?

first, you cannot blame the county/town/city for the roads. they most likely had been out there, doing their job and the roads got covered again.

i have seen the major highways here in MA, that get plowed but they cannot keep up with the snow fall and the amount of plow trucks, and MILES of roads they have

it was still YOUR responsibility to driver properly.

to "not expect that the road would not be plowed", is 1000% your fault for thinking that.

you decided to drive on THAT road, at THAT time, no one made you do it.

lawyer will say anything to make you feel better, after all, you are paying him.

you might be lucky, if you still have your job...did you tell your boss, it was all the plowman's fault..???

 

Instead of denying responsibility you should be learning from your mistake.

 

You said it was snowing right? So when that white stuff falls, you should automatically be cautious. It was totally your fault. You were going too fast. For those conditions. People seem to think it doesn't get slick when it snows. You may or may not have been going under the speed limit, it doesn't matter. It was too fast. That's why you lost control. All you can do is chalk it up to the game, pay that fine, and do better next time. Dont forget to pay that lawyer. He doesn't really think its BS. He represents you so that's his job to tell you what makes feel not so bad.

 

Were you fired?

 

a tow truck was called, it is considered an accident by the company's, not neccesarily thru the DMV...

this will stay on that employers file forever, or until they go out of business. they WILL inform potential employers if asked, about any accidents or incidents.

however, there WILL be a DMV record of this, depending on the amount of damage you did to the ground, and surrounding area, and of course, the "failure to maintain control" ticket.

best to check your DMV record

 

There's companies in Florida that will hire you or companies all over the place that hire Florida drivers.

 

You were on it. Mother Nature can bury snow covering a whole state worth of roads making a thousand plows like ants moving tiny amounts which are reburied in a few hours.

The traction went away because you were too fast and gravity put you into the ditch. And thats that.

Keep in mind some Plow people sit and wait until a storm is over before going out. If they have any at all. Around here we have precious little. But no worry, just a day of sunshine and that dry wind behind the front dries it off in no time. Add a foot of snow overnight to morning, sun comes out and all gone by dinner. I don't have to scrape the vehicles or nothing.

If the traction is not there or the storm is too strong locally, I'll hole up somewhere and wait a while. alot better than losing the whole thing off a mountain or going into a ditch or worse. I have in my time made one trip on pure ice on US 79 in Alabama/Miss to Memphis where each bridge the side rail held the jack knifing trailer on the road while I dragged it. The other cars were a problem until they learned fast to stay away. A day of jackknifing and rubbing. Boss man does not know about that. Yet. But I got it through. But it was not a good trip at all.

You will learn from this and get better next time. IF not? We cannot help you.