Do mega carriers tell your dispatch if you have a minor accident? Living it down.

Stuff happens, especially when we're in a hurry. Everyone makes mistakes, those who say they don't are liars. If it were me I'd just come straight out and ask about it. "Am I getting junk runs because I screwed up?" While they probably won't give you a truthful answer, at least they know that you know something is up and they might communicate better

 

Talk to Safety and get the vids and test (if there is one) done.

As far as your dispatcher, my experience has been, as long as you're doing the work on time and you're not a PIA being a high maintenance, whiny driver, then you're golden.

 

The dispatcher probably was tasked with making sure you completed the safety vids. When you didn't he may have been chewed out and is now pissed at you for getting him in trouble. As well a dispatcher is supposed to know what is going on with their drivers at all times ... you blind sided him.

The name of the game in this business is communicate, communicate with everyone and often. Your dispatcher should have been called as soon as you got in an accident.

Even a hint of looking Iike you are willing to hide bad news will shatter your company's and the people you work with confidence in you.

 

Dispatcher knows. At my old starter company I got into a few minor incidents with stationary objects. Mirror damage,etc. Rookie mistakes. Speed got bumped down to 62. Went from getting 900 mile loads to 400-500. Got random drugged tested 2 times within that year too. It's their way of passively encouraging you to quit.

 

It sounds to me like you were put in a high risk group because of the accident.
Add to that, you have been lax in completing your safety classes.
That shows them that you simply don't care.

And if you don't care, why should they?


It is up to you to prove yourself to them, not the other way around.

 

2 weeks in as solo I hit a pole and damaged a fender.
For the next year I was 'random' tested at least every 2 months, sometimes twice in a week.
Often those tests came just as I was coming back from home time.

It wasn't trying to get me to quit - it was a safety measure.

An accident put me in a high risk category so I was tested more often.
These days I might go over a year without a random. Or there might be a couple within a few months because it is random.
But the high risk drivers are on a weighted random list.