%&^*$##...... I screwed up!

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  1. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    Thanks,it won't happen again,I'm paranoid now and it will be forever on my mind when I pull in somewhere.
    I've never even had a fenderbender driving a car before in nearly 40 years of driving.
     
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  3. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    Good point,I will try to avoid the end slot if possible.
     
  4. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    Heh,if I'd of been going much slower I'd have been going backwards lol.
    I was creeping along in 2nd gear,I just lost track of where my trailer was.
    It was a slow motion crunch,I looked in the mirror just as it happened and jammed on the brakes but it was too late.
     
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  5. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    Thanks,I think it's all going to be ok.
     
  6. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    I'm work'n on it lol.

    Great story,sick feeling though ain't it heh heh.
     
  7. EZ Money

    EZ Money Road Train Member

    Enjoy your weekend off bud and just chalk that up as "sh^& happens....lol!
     
  8. Raiderfanatic

    Raiderfanatic Heavy Load Member

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    Bummer, dude!! I'm sure those that have not screwed up have come close. I know the other day in Cameron, MO, I was just stopping for a bathroom break. I was concerned about my blind side and just happened to glance in my drivers side mirror....don't know how I lucked out and missed a guys trailer. I bet you couldn't have slid a piece of paper between the end of my trailer and his.....lucky.....
     
  9. DickJones

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    Sucks you've had a fender bender. it happens, like the driver of the other truck. And i don't know what the policy or how easy the company you drive for is on first time wrecks, but if it were me............you'd be gone.
    not cause i'd just try to be an az-ho, but you're accident is telling me you can't watch your mirrors. or you get 'lazy' when you get sleepy, or after driving for a while. Not saying you ARE, just saying fatigue plays its part.
    gotta remember you got a big az behind ya.
     
  10. wsyrob

    wsyrob Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    You better be paying your drivers better than all the other companies if you want to be such a hard ###. You would have already invested thousands in him in training up to the point of solo. One minor accident like this is an incident. Two becomes a trend. Only then can you start to make the type of assumptions you have in your post. Keep your nose clean driver and you will be fine. Its not good business to let a driver go after one minor truck stop low speed incident.
     
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  11. Y2K

    Y2K Road Train Member

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    Thanks,I agree and not just because it was me.
    Had I been hired as an experienced driver at a higher pay scale it would be different for sure.
    Had I also had a bad prior driving record maybe different but my record is good,one rookie incident doesn't make a bad driver IMHO,it's part of the learning curve albeit a hard part with no room for more of the same.
     
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