Does incident reports for tire blowout go against my CDL record?

Mechanical breakdowns are not a reportable event unless another vehicle is hit by debris.
I don’t know of any police department that would allow you to file such a report for everyday business expenses. Tire blow outs are just a cost of doing business. The only “crime” would be for you to not be doing your daily inspections.

 

It won't go on your drivers record, but the union outfit I drove for, a blowout was considered a preventable offense. I know,,,their reasoning was, if you inspected the tires before leaving, an avoidable road hazard caused the blowout. If you ran over a curb causing a blowout, that was a chargeable. Hitting a deer, chargeable, and so on. Totally unfair, and I didn't work there long. You'll be fine.

 

We document blowouts as Accidents to have records of the repeat offenders who aren't doing pretrips , don't look at the equipment during fuel stops, drive over everything in sight, etc.

Tires are #### expensive in 2023 and drivers need to have some accountability in causing significant unnecessary expense, especially if it's a habitual bad driver.

Side note, we had one moron wheel holder that had $28,000 in tire "emergencies" over a 2 year period. He was a train wreck of destroying equipment besides tires as well.

And like said in a earlier post ... No police agency is going to take a tire blowout as a complaint unless you damaged someone else's property in the process.

 

Do they also require you to call in for a police report when someone "almost" ran into you?

 

That police report happens when you follow the guy to a fuel stop and start a fist fight with him.

 

Is this a JOKE ?

 

Yeah I thought the same thing when I first read the post, think it may be an over exaggeration of just filing incident reports, as the Police will think it was a joke, barring any blow out that may have caused a vehicle perhaps to veer off the road.

 

So you have to call the police to the roadside and make a report for a blowout?
Define to us what you consider a police report, please.

 

how were they about changing out a tire that failed your inspection?