I’m pretty sure I scraped a trailer....

the mere fact that you "felt a bump" and thought nothing of it and took off, tells me you could care less.

if they have cameras on that building, they can charge you with a hit and run.

try getting a job after that.

 

The right thing to do is report it. That’s the only answer. Maybe nobody witnessed it or it was caug7on a camera

 

Probably too late now too do anything. My experience, trailers get scraped all the time. ( every trailer I drag has scrapes )..seems the nature of the beast in Chicago, Philly , NYC. Carry on and don't make it a habit, or next you will scrape a Tractor with occupant inside....Re: the Bump?...Should have been a Clue something happened????

 

It is best practice to keep the trolling motor as slow as possible while laying out the rigging. Then the first stage of the drop line. Once they trail out, you can feed in some throttle for a nice smooth pull.

 

but sometimes, feeding the trolls keeps us busy, until the other more important threads get responded to.

 

Don't screw up your DAC report by reporting it.
Lots of drivers unemployed right now because every time they break wind, they call safety department.

 

I know of one VP of safety for a large company that wouldn’t jack you up on this particular thing for a first offense or a very long history without anything if you are honest and up front.

But if Todd found out after the fact. Destination f’d up

 

This. I had a driver I met at the Pilot all lined up to start with us last month, but he didn't report an accident to his company. Then, it appears he did it at another company as well a few years back. Those are the ones that they know about. Who knows if he had done it before. So even with two minor incidents being the only things on his verified record since 2014, my company denied him.

There is nothing our president hates more, and hated more when he was a driver, than when other drivers would drop broken or defective equipment at the yard and not tell anyone, not red tag it, etc...or they would damage a trailer and not report it. Just pass along an issue to the next driver. Someone is going to be held up or held responsible for it, and that's just a selfish, A-Hole thing to do to another driver.

He says "The type of driver who cares about nothing but themselves, and doesn't care that they are 100% going to cause a problem for the next driver, that is not the type of driver we need here."

Granted, you're still sort of a rookie, and hopefully no one finds out - but just be warned, you don't always get lucky and not get caught. Plus, you probably just ruined some other driver's day because he is going to get blamed for the damage or get held up, burning hours, if the trailer isn't road worthy. So PLEASE, from all of us, don't make it a habit.

 

How many times did you get out and look?


Just curious.