"accident" - does it affect personal mvr?

did this happen after your issue with the tandems ?

 

sorta screwy in a way and you are going to get screwed, major issue here is insurance, if you did not get a citation from badged officer on a matter in which any portion of the vehicle is in traffic juris then I would not lose a lot of sleep about it but sounds to me like mostly an insurance issue and yes, companies ^will^ find it some how but if no citation was written by badged officer with some court-date on it then maybe there is some record somewhere somehow but the number one on it is whether you were written a traffic citation, which it does not sound like

 

Got a CDL,? You bet it does.

 

Personal or commercial, last word I have is, yes it does.

 

Most definitely. It will also affect your CDL and your DAC and possible your insurance and in the long run, your eligibility for getting hired on with another company.

Better watch those prevantable boo-boo's!

 

Yes it will. My personal auto insurance premium went up from a backing incident in a truckstop parking lot. Company's insurance wasn't affected since we were ready to prove that the other driver was in the wrong where he parked in the first place, and there was less than $500 damage. Scuffed paint from my rubber bumber. However, per both of our companies policy the local LEO had to be called and a report filed.

 

If you only scraped a pole and a stop sign then there will be NOTHING against your Personal MVR. Nothing. DAC is not a Government agency. They have their own stuff. You will not have any points or record of any kind. The Safety Nazis at some of the companies will look at it and give you a hard time but if there is not $$$ damage you are fine.

Everyone scrapes a sign if they are on the road long enough. They may say they never have but they have, they just don't know they have. We have all hopped curbs. Look at the marks on curbs and the pits around them. They come from truckers. It cannot be avoided.

The problem with the DAC bs is that those folks do not live in the real world. They are paper pushers and bean counters. If we would work together, DAC would be a thing of the past. Trucks and trailers get banged up. Look sometime at the trees along side a road. You will notice branches hang over the street with a truck image punched out. Do you think those limbs did damage. Sure. I see signs knock over all the time. Some of them on streets I have never been down.

Don't do it if you can avoid it.

I was trying to make a left hand turn coming off a street near Ward Park Shopping Center in Kansas City. Do to traffic, I had to change my direction and turn right instead. My trailer rub against a traffic light. The head on the traffic signal is designed to pivot when this happens. The light pivoted and no damage was done. I call the street department and they sent out a man to turn the signal back the correct way. No harm, no foul.

Had the DAC people or safety from the company been there, I would have been fired and my career place on hold. For what, nothing. When you lose a job, your family doesn't eat. You mess with my family and watch out. As an industry, we are being run over by insurance companies. We need to stand up to them. After all, they took the bail out money.

 

How can you scrape a telephone pole and stop sign and not not have $$$ damage ?

 

Easy. Just brush against it.

I see yellow streaks on many trucks, with no actual damage. It would be simple to remove it, for the savvy driver who wasn't too lazy.