I had a preventable accident and fired.

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by GuamboyEli, Dec 3, 2024.

  1. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    If an insurance company was involved is how.
     
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  3. CalculatedRisk

    CalculatedRisk Heavy Load Member

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    I thought Werner was self-insured.
     
  4. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Not 100%
     
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  5. CalculatedRisk

    CalculatedRisk Heavy Load Member

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    I wonder if Swift would take him? Western express might or a smaller company as somehow has suggested on here including you @Chinatown .
     
  6. GuamboyEli

    GuamboyEli Bobtail Member

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    I haven’t checked yet. I wanted to wait til I was 100% sure of my status
     
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  7. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    It’s a D.O.T. Preventable Accident. Guess who knows about it?
     
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  8. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Yeah, me too. I re-wrote my reply several times because the first few where going to be a rant about new drivers and just assuming they would have a steady diet of wrecks and tickets their whole career like they are just nothing events, like one more bug hitting the windshield. WTH!!
     
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  9. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Once an insurance company pays on an event, like for damages or tow, that event and the drivers involved go into an insurance industry database forever. This prevents bad drivers from being able to keep getting insurance coverage by just "forgetting" to mention the accident to the next insurance company. Once you have a CDL you are not just some dude with a DL. You are now a commercial operator, think restaurant not employee of a restaurant, and your behavior isn't just subject to the "try not to die today" expectation for someone in a minivan, but to a higher level, both dollar-wise and responsibility-wise.
     
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  10. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Even self-insured companies have insurance coverage above a certain amount. I worked for a company where they covered everything below $5 million, IIRC. They had insurance coverage above $5M from an actual insurance company or group of them. Those insurance companies can stipulate if you don't follow rules A, B, C in precisely these ways you won't receive our money/help above the base amount that you eat.
     
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  11. 201

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    You'd think so, but if I had to drive again, I'd have to start at the beginning. When I still had my CDL, I inquired about some job, they said, if it's been over 3 years, which it was, I'd have to start all over. I told them to cram it with walnuts,,:p
     
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