A car breaks red light and hits my right side of trailer

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by chrisX, Jan 8, 2018.

  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Forget that word Career. There is no such.

    I suppose you could say at the end of your trucking work day you can give thanks you are still employed and nothing bad happened.
     
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  3. chrisX

    chrisX Bobtail Member

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    Ok.. Is he alright? My case is somebody break red light.
     
  4. chrisX

    chrisX Bobtail Member

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    We need to be lucky...
     
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  5. laaylor

    laaylor Road Train Member

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    I don’t think you will have any problems; but that driver is sort of right. I was parked in an end parking spot at a truckstop that had a culvert(ditch) on the one side of the spot. I was 7 hours into my sleep break on a ELD.. there was a horrible storm and a flash flood made the asphalt on that end of my parking spot erode and give way which caused my truck to flip over into the ditch.. I was hurt pretty bad and taken to the hospital.. my truck was totaled out..the load was mostly saved.. no citations issued obviously. The company I was leased into fired me. Said I should have not parked in that spot and because there was an injury regardless of nonpreventable status; it still was a ding on CSa score.. what I’m saying is it’s all subjective and up to whatever the company you work for wants to make out of it..
    After I recovered a few months later, I had no problem finding another job. It was on my DAC, but I just showed them the paperwork and what had happened and nobody cared...
     
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  6. chrisX

    chrisX Bobtail Member

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    Omg...That was natural disaster. How could the company do such a thing?
     
  7. Ezrider_48501

    Ezrider_48501 Road Train Member

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    i had a car run a red light drive under my trailer took most the front end off there car and it didn't affect me at all.
     
  8. win-some-loose-less

    win-some-loose-less Medium Load Member

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    Had a no fault accident in commifornia years ago and almost cost me a job, when I left that company and applied to another I had to jump Thru all kinds of hoops because on psp it just showed up as a tow away accident and didn’t say fault or not on there.. for as much data as these yahoos like to keep up with on us they are awful vaugue on a lot of it where it counts..
     
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  9. chrisX

    chrisX Bobtail Member

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    Do you have any solutions for that problem? Getting a police report or any of the evidences?
     
  10. win-some-loose-less

    win-some-loose-less Medium Load Member

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    Had to call commiefornia and jump thru their hoops of getting police report but before it finally came in, I had the safety department at the employer I was with at time of accident send a email of the details of accident to the place I was trying to go to work at, luckily they finally said that would do since had a good record unless when police report came it showed something different, then I would be let go..
     
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