Fired for barely touching pole, no damage

Yes. I mean it’s better than busting a gate or a truck etc

 

Ya someone said it perfectly before.
"They want you to hit them, that's why they put them there"

 

carolina cargo. carolina logistics.

 

You have pics of your trailer?

 

"made you call your company"? umm yeah i wouldve told them #### you, them crybaby sorry ### guardshack ######## are useless, if you caused no damage to their little pole or your truck tell them you will repaint their stupid pole and go get you some spray paint and call it a day.. if they want to call your company so be it, but their should never be a point where anybody makes you do anything.. it would be better to get fired imo for telling a guardshack to #### off then to get fired for hitting something.. them lazy guards deserve to get told that every once in awhile

 

can you tell i been dealing with some #### guards lately

 

As a general rule, people with good interpersonal skills don't tend to end up sitting in guard shacks for a living.

 

Only in NASCAR is it ever good to take the pole position

 

People in gaurdshacks have the power, sometimes power goes to peoples heads. I wouldn't doubt if his car looks like a toothpaste tube. I like the way they drive in Poland, they seem to have that, get out da way type attitude. At least the driver wasn't texting, or talking on the phone.

 

Why does everyone assume that? Insurance premiums can be insane for the small-time operator, even with ZERO claims and decades of safe driving. Why would he want to hire an inexperienced driver who has already demonstrated the willingness to allow his truck to bump stationary objects? THIS time, it was a pole with no real damage. Next time, it'll snap a utility pole or tear the hood off another truck. That sort of claim will see a small company's already high premiums go through the roof (or worse yet, dropped altogether) and then that small company is no more. NO company that's worth working for will take that sort of risk.

The larger companies typically self-insure, so while it still hurts their bottom line, minor incidents won't potentially shut them down.