Werner Enterprises - Chargeable Accidents?

As I said in a prior thread I was looking for other work. I was also on the road with a trainer and had barely any time to take or accept phone calls. Looking for a job just wasn't going to happen until I managed some home time and Training was just about done. Once I got some home time I'd go for the other job but that's then. Things were going wonderful until my last load. I was doing the Dollar General account and the road was entirely too narrow. I don't want to speak ill of my trainer but I learned the hard way it's best I get out and look as oppposed to trusting him. In this case I never got the chance. We were going down a two lane road in the country at night. I almost always turn my turn signal on way in advance. I'm talking almost a mile in advance so no one can argue they didn't see me trying to turn. I come up to the Dollar General and a truck attempts to speed past in the oncoming lane. I cannot move into that lane to complete the hard turn necessary to get into the store parking lot. I get in the parking lot and my trainer yells at me to turn the other way. It's dark out and I'm trying to figure out what he meant. Seconds later I find out as the back of trailer goes into a ditch on the other side. The truck no longer moves and my trainer keeps telling me this is a chargeable offense on my record. I have no idea what that means but I understand what was meant about the dollar accounts. It isn't that the parking lots aren't meant for the trailers. They aren't really but you get the idea that if you can just park right it can work. This parking lot isn't that bad. It's that ditch that's the bad part. And them coming out and saying "We really need to fix that" is no help.

My trainer said this goes on my permanent record. It's sad because you could not see the ditch from the driver's view of the window nor does the truck factor in. I know that doesn't matter to them but what does this mean for me and my driving from here on out?

 

I don't want to go into the various ways my trainer failed me. We were just pulling in as I avoided that truck. I'm not sure this could have happened any other way.

My question is is that it? Was all my CDL training thrown away that fast because I avoided a truck? Am I still employable?

 

I did not. I took pics after the fact. My trainer never saw the truck I guess. He was on about how I needed to turn to avoid the ditch. We did need a tow truck, the trailer leaned to the side and messed up the drive tires.

 

Would you mind explaining please? All I got was the trainer yelling this is going on my permanent record and he would not clarify anything else.