leaving the scene of an accident?

you can try and "pick out" anything i say and then try to use it to your advantage, but you still lose, and lose big time. i HAVE a job in trucking, and you DON'T...........that's the difference.

argue all you want, you lost this argument from your very first thread/post when you admitted you LEFT THE SCENE OF AN ACIDENT........no matter what anyone else "admits to", most of us "STAND UP" and take our lumps.........

you chose to run-a-way....................

any more arguments from you from this point are, are useless.........[/quote]
Actually prodriver, I don't know if you've read all the comments on this page, but I can have that accident wiped off my record, so it seems that I don't 'lose', and even if I did 'lose', that would be okay, because I don't have to always be right and win all the time like some people not to name any names, but I think you get the gist.

 

'We all know that once you do something that it's easier the next time?' Hmmm, I guess I'm not exactly following. I think what he meant to say there was, if you get away with something, it's easier to do next time. If you truly don't believe that the truck industry is all that bad, don't pay attention to the media. The media mostly reports lies anyway. If you pay attention to only one message in this post I hope it's this: Don't pay attention to the media, and try and actually think for yourself, I mean you supposedly are an adult, although that seems like a step towards adulthood that too many 'adults' have forgotten to make.

 

If for some reason like the ice cause them to hang down, or something and you actually never left the road, I wouldn't consider it an accident, however if you knew you hit something then, it would probably be best to see if you did damage or not.

 

and i don't gotta "win all the time", heck, i lose every once in a while, just not to too many "leaving the scene of an accident" driver's such as someone did, but i'm not naming names.............you get the "gist" of what I'M SAYING...........[/quote]
That's a good point, but you seem to have forgotten one thing, and that's the fact that the industry really needs drivers, and will really need drivers for the years to come, and as I mentioned, it boils down to whether I am covered under their insurance. I am not trying to sucker a company into hiring me and then think, heh heh heh, little do they know I'm a bad driver, once I get hired on by another company I plan to be the absolute best and honest driver I can be.

 

The fact that so many people are taking interest in this topic is inspiring me to actually tell the truth. Alright, like I said I backed into something while I was attempting to get back on the road, so I could go to the shipper. It was a really wacky dock, where you drive to the back of the building and dock it, however once it was time for me to leave, I didn't have enough room to even pull my truck up and swing it around to the narrow alley that takes u back to the road, so I had to pull up out of the dock, and then back down the alley, and back out onto the road. I didn't know there were any cars behind me, and I should hav checked, but essentially the aim here was to back into the street then head on to the shipper. I backed into the road, and just as I was finishing backing I heard a strange screeching noise, but I was in a big city so I figured the noise could have come from anywhere. I didn't rule it out that I couldn't have hit anything. I didn't know one way or the other, and I left to get to the shipper, bcuz like I said I was running behind. It was irresponsible on my part. Would I have done it differently, probably not, just bcuz I know that when u make huge mistakes like that u learn lessons from them, usually and I did, and also call it instinct, I knew I couldn't have possibly hurt anyone, bcuz I had the trailer pretty much jackknifed, and I had been backing it into the street for a few minutes, so obviously if for some reason a person was back there they would have moved. Would I do it differently if in the same situation again? probably. When I was told do go back to the scene I told the cop everything exactly as it happened, and u know why? Bcuz I am honest person. I could hav said, oh man, I had absolutely no idea I did that, and gotten off with a much lesser charge, but I told him look, 'I heard this noise, and I know I should hav checked it out.' I'm not going to do myself any good by lying to him. Sure, I might not have a leaving the scene on my hands, but I know lying is much too hurtful of a thing. Why would I want to put my conscience through so much agony, when having a clean conscience is the best feeling in the world. Also, when I talked to my boss about it, he said 'Well, at least you were honest about it', and I stayed with that company another 6 months, until the state of WI finally decided to suspend my license. So there are companies that will definitely hire me as soon as A:the 3 yrs. r up or B: I get it wiped off my record