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And quitting will accomplish what exactly?
Anyone you try and hire on to will contact your current company (by law they have to) and the current company will tell them about this wreck (again, by law they have to). All quitting does is make you look worse to potential employers.

 

Honesty is always the best policy.

 

I would stay at JB hunt. If they ask you tell them exactly what happened. Trucking companies needs drivers but walking away after damaging equipment to me looks worse than just owning up to it. It was a accident, you didn’t realize there was damage, your sorry and where you headed next.

 

I’m pretty sure they will not fire you for this.

 

ZVar is correct. This is going to follow you for a bit. If you don’t disclose this to the new gig, odds are they are going to can you when they find out.

 

I worked for a much smaller company a driver did exact same thing and reported it to office as soon as it happened. He delivered the load came back empty but he is still working for the company. They did not fire him.

 

well you learnt a lesson, "never assume everything is ok, until you physically check it out ASAP".

you might get a tongue lashing, you might get fired. this will stay on your employment record, and when you change jobs, you;ll have to make note of it on the applications.

you don't need to grovel to the Gods of JB Hunt, you just have to owe up to your mistake and that YOU LEARNED a very valuable lesson on responsibility.

from here, you have to let us know, what happens to you.

just DO NOT QUIT now, things may work out for you.

best of luck.

 

Let's look at this from a slightly different view. JB Hunt Is going to pay about $2k fixing the trailer not a lot to lose a driver over. So, let's say they just spent $2k on "on the job training" for you to never do this again.

 

STAY WITH J.B. !!