Am I being unreasonable?

You can drive it with out the spot mirrors but the main thing is you feeling comfortable driving like that because at the end of the day you have a CDL so you already know everything is your fault they use that word drivers responsibility. If you decide to drive it and end up clipping a car on a turn or hitting something because of the blind spot its going to be all on you the company isn't going to want to hear you hit something because the mirror was missing and you definitely don't want to tell a cop that. If you don't feel safe don't drive because its your livelihood on the line. I had several instances were I had to refuse to drive because I felt the truck wasnt safe even though dispatch was telling me to drive I didn't care I wasn't messing my cdl up for no company I could always find another company but messing your record up is permanent.

 

If you don't feel safe driving a truck because the hood mirror is gone you need a new job.

 

Firing drivers for being safe. We need more bosses like you

 

No. He would be fired for refusing to move the truck for what is simply a broken accessory. How about I take your truck, with a customers load and refuse to deliver because there is no backup camera on it?
Sounds like you would be good with that. After all I'm not as safe a driver now.....

 

I've never seen a backup camera on a truck. I do however, see hood mirrors on almost every truck on the road. Like it or not alot of drivers were trained on tractors that have hood mirrors and that's all they know.

I rather a driver be safe than cause an accident. Plus in OP the company could have done more to get someone to him. It didn't have to take 3 days. They just didn't want to go that route.

 

Bumping threads that are over a year old, you should be fired for that.

 

I doubt you are still reading this, but will comment for the sake of others. Some time when you have nothing better to do and walking to and from your truck at a truckstop, pay a little attention to what you see, you would have seen many trucks that never had a hood mirror to start with, and known the responding officer was full of himself, no need to ask your boss any question like that.

I have them on one of my own trucks, and they are handy once you get used to using them (took me a while) but do not even miss them on the others, While they are nice, they are not needed to be safe out there.

 

Just change it up a bit..and look perhaps a couple more times to deal with whatever situation you are in. You do have a convex mirror under or built in your passenger mirror right? If not put one on. Good grief don't be such a cupcake!

 

I've been out here 5 years im still wet behind the ears. I look up to a lot of the 25-40yr veterans. I was taught the old school way of doing things by my dad whose been on the road since '82