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The damage won’t likely get you fired, but the deceit might.

They’re not reviewing the incident. They’re reviewing how you handled it. They are going to make a decision based on your deceit. This is how these outfits look at things like this.

You knew you scraped the trailer. You know you’re supposed to report ANY incident. You chose not to because you didn’t think it was a big deal, “just a scratch”, to use your words.

That deception is what might get you fired.

Your big mistake in this is you didn’t inspect the damage closely enough. No one reports menial crap like a scratch. But peeling the top of the trailer is a different matter. You should’ve caught that and reported it.

 

Don't quit.
Use it as a learning opportunity.
Always know the height of what you are pulling, and always look at the clearance sign of what you are going to drive under, make sure it fits.
This applies to everything from the canopies over fuel pumps, to tunnels, bridges and more.
If you heard it scrape, logically you knew it did damage, so should have reported it immediately.

Stay there, take your lumps, and most of all learn from this.

 

Own up to it, accept responsibility and consequences. Way better chance of keeping your job that way.

 

I used to work one of the dedicated accounts. We had a newbie come in who was a bit shaky on doing retail deliveries to tight locations and clipped a bollard post enough to bend it and the bottom trailer rail. Hunt just had him go out with a trainer at another account that did similar tight backing to get his skill set up.

And to reinforce what a couple of folks have hinted at. The repair cost for the damage and cost to renew you skill set will most likely be less than the cash outlay to hire a replacement and give them a hiring bonus and other incentives.

 

One step at a time. Let the review happen. If it's your destiny to get fired, just face the music. If you survive the review, learn from it, do better. Also, don't forget to check your atlas for those low bridges!

 

JB Hunt is, obviously, huge where I live (Arkansas). They’re not too bad. It’s the FedEx morons that are CONSTANTLY rolling, wrecking and otherwise wreaking havoc on the interstates in and around Little Rock.