Catch-22?

Smart stuff from you guys. Nice.

 

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OP, the record may stay on your MVR over 3 years BUT most insurance companies don't go back over 3 years. Things are not as bleak as you think. You have only 1 accident as I'm thinking the police were involved with the parked auto.

Your tow out and flat tire are 'incidents' and shouldn't appear on your MVR abstract. Most insurance carriers allow one 'at fault' accident.

When my broker runs a license and it shows 2 accidents in the past 3 years, they ask for the PD reports to prove fault or not and if only one was 'at fault' they will forward both reports with the MVR directly to the underwriter for approval and 99.9% of the time we get the OK to hire.

On time is nice and makes everyone happy BUT stuff happens. Tires still go flat [thankfully not as bad as the Good Ole bias tire days] and enough stuff happens that loads do run late.

Always have since cave man hooked a drag to a wolf-dog and always will until they figure out how to have 'Scotty' beam the freight directly from the assembly line. When things go right, you will make it on time.

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience is learned from bad judgments."

Get your head into a trucker's atlas and park the automobile GPS, next time it won't be a dirt road but something deadly.

The other day I was driving my pickup on some back roads, I climbed a hill that has a large sign 'No trucks over 30 feet long'. When I reached the top I see a tractor trailer coming and signalling to turn down that hill.

This is an area where I learned to drive on the back country farm roads. I couldn't figure HOW he got there without crossing a bunch of light bridges. I told him not to go that way. If the first 180 [banked the wrong way towards the cliffside] and the 2nd 180 didn't get him the 1/4 mile 10% at the bottom ending at a 'T' intersection would.

I told him there was room to go between the house and the barn and MAYBE the trees would stop him before he reached the river....

Get out the map and figure out the best 'big' road to get there. Get Acme mapper on your laptop it is a map tool that allows you to switch between a map, terrain map, satellite view and USGS Topographic map.

Locate your customer and zoom in on satellite, chances are you will see where the trucks go, etc. this lets you plan ahead.

 

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So if the elements of an accident require the carrier to record the accident, is there any such thing as a non-recordable accident?

 

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Sure, happens all the time. Back a few years before I retired I was on I 285 in Atlanta and had a guy driving for Covenant hit my driver's side California mirror and knock it off. It was the old type with no wires. That was non-recordable. Let's not get lost in definitions of what is an accident. The FMCSA has a definition of an accident and within those rules, an accident is what the carrier says it is. Most classify these as incidents.