Am i screwed on this accident?

Is it just on your mvr or is it on your dac report too? On your dac report you can "refute" the charge and from what I've been told dac will investigate it and if they find that the info on there is wrong they will remove it. As far as your mvr I'm not sure about that, maybe talk to motor vehicles before you spend the dinero on a mouthpiece. And good luck driver!

 

while that is all TOO TRUE, i heard from the road tester at arnold, these Co's are getting a little more vague(sp?) about what they put on DAC about you.
something about lawsuits. (finally, SOMETHING we can give the ambulance chasers GOOD credit for)

 

Had this happen to me at Smith Transport at a yard, the tire blew in the yard because of a bald spot where someone had drug the tire. Before anyone asks, no I didnt see it and wouldnt have as it was sitting on the bald spot. Well on my next monthly performance review, they said that I had a preventable accident and I know it was the tire cause I had to end up calling safety about it.

 

You know this is where this DAC thing is getting out of hand--A "preventable" accident is where the driver hits something or someone because he's not driving responsibly,,,A "non-preventable" accident is where someone else hits the truck or pulls out in front of it and the driver is NOT AT FAULT. Why is OOIDA and their group of lawyers(like the ones who went after Landstar) or some other group not going after this "investigative" organization? Just like bad credit info must be true and accurate, this DAC stuff needs to be also. And trucking companies should be held liable for reporting normal things such as tires and breakdowns as "accidents" when these false "accident reports" cost someone their job!

 

Sad to say, it a done deal, especially since it was so long ago. I was in the same boat on a ticket that had I showed up for would have been dismissed. Actually, my company, acting in my behalf, sent the court a letter pleading Not Guilty with Written Declaration (I'm not getting the terminology right, but it's immaterial). They failed to send in the fine amount which is supposed to be posted as bail. When I discovered their error, I sent it in; but they interpreted it to be as payment of a fine. Later, I found I had been assessed 1.5 pts. but, being lazy, I procrastinated for a year or so, only to find I needed that 1.5 pts off my MVR---Wasn't happening. Just have to wait until June, 2010, when it will drop off on it's own.