First time I ever had to call the cops on another trucker

I think this whole situation was blown way out of proportion.

 

I think they should of towed that jack*** and not giving him the time to move.
Once he feels that truck raise off the ground he will get the message and a big bill from the hook.

I was new at one time did I try to park like that heck no If there were no parfking then I did not stop.

 

I agree this guy is probably an idiot but I don't agree with the company name associating everyone driving for them is an idiot.. Judge a man or women for what they do not for who they drive for..

 

Statements like that don't help your credibility here .

 

So what do you think she should have done?? Do they wait until this driver gets all of his rest and decides to get up? I would have done more and my hats off to IROC for handling the stuation in a professional manner.

 

IROC, maybe you will get a new 389 next time around. For the US Express situation, you could've left "I park like an idiot" sticker on his mud flap or did what brick mentioned with the radio active hazmat sign.

Hunter

 

at work i get to wake up people who park like that all the time............i do security so i cant announce police, but i do have a whalen siren that works everytime....lol it sounds just like the police is right outside their door

 

Man that just sucks! Today I had a CSRT driver pull out of the spot next to me on the drivers side and he was driving the rig like a car, meaning once the cab cleared my hood he started turning right which put his trailer right up next to my driver side mirrors. I honked my air horn several times but he did not look or stop until he had hit my mirror. Turned out it was a student driver with 'experience' and the mentor got out and was trying to instruct this guy on what to do but instead of turning his wheel to the left and pulling the trailer away, he turned it right and kept going forward....I'm screaming at this point! He then tried to backup to get off my mirror...but guess what direction he turned the wheel. Yup you got it, the wrong way once again! He left a scratch the full length of my mirror casing from top to bottom with the rivets on his trailer 3x!

I am still annoyed. I even helped the mentor with his truck before they pulled out to leave. I was adjusting my mirrors because I just had the truck washed at a blue beacon, and he rolled down his window and asked me how to adjust his front convex mirrors. I showed him and even let him use my WD-40 to loosen up the ball joint, then I took my vicegrips and adjusted his passenger side mirror for him and tightened it back down. After his student hit me 3x they had an attitude that I should not worry about it, the mentor said why hurt a students record over a scratched up mirror mount on my company truck which has less than 200k miles. Then he said just say you woke up and found the mounting all scratched up from 'somebody that left during the night' (which would have ended up on my record as a preventable).

I tried to call my company's accident phone number but was on hold. I wanted to see if they wanted to file a claim or not, to try and help the other driver (to keep it off his permanent record and off mine) but by the time I got through he had already contacted CSRT claims and filed a accident report. Overall I tried to be nice about it but if the guy had simply paid attention this would never have happened. Now he's two weeks out and has a preventable on his record, so much for an 'experienced' student.

Luckily for me the damage was only cosmetic so I'm not out of service but it still irks me. Now my mirror looks like I don't know how to drive because its all scratched up like I hit something. Grrrrr!