I am working for a company, id rather not say the name but i have had a few minor accidents 3 to be exact, the first one was while i was in training, i had been driving with a trainer for maybe a week in school, my trainer took me down a military access only road and i had to make a tight right hand turn that had a telephone pole on the corner, i looked to make sure nothing was coming in the other lane before i made my turn, i made my turn and seen oncoming headlights in the distance, i was going at a turtles pace trying to correct the trailer from being in the other lane but did not have time to, the car hit the back end of the trailer, how some one misses a 53 foot trailer is beyond me, i dont know for sure if they wrote it up as my fault or not i didnt get a ticket,
the second incident was i was making a delivery by myself and the paperwork did not have north or south for which dock to turn into, so I went to the north dock first it was on a dead end street, after talking to security he told me to turn around in the parking lot and go to the other lot, i was watching my right mirror to make sure i didnt hit a yellow pole and when i looked in the left the tandems bent a chain link fence post over a little bit, not much but a little bit maybe a quarter of the way over, no big deal, the security gaurd told me that was not the firs time it had happened, they took all my info, no cops involved, and i made my delivery,
the third happened a bout a week later, i made a delivery to the shipper i was supposed to be picking a load up from, I made my drop, and went to check on the load that was supposed to be ready, I tried leaving 12 hours early so i could take my 10 hour break but low and behold the load i was supposed to be picking up was not ready, so I did not make it to where i was going till after midnight, I was able to get about 3 hours of sleep before the drop, after they got me unloaded it was 7am i called dispatch and they told me they didnt have a backhaul ready for me yet just to hang out, I went to the TA to get something to eat, i was just trying to find a parking spot that was not too difficult to get into since i was extremely tired, none in the front or middle part of the lot so i headed toward the back, I made my right hand turn a little too sharp and the right rear part of the trailer in front of the tandems hit the front passenger side of a parked truck that no one was inside of, I called dispatch they said call the cops, which i did, the driver of the other truck was not too upset, I didnt get cited on that one either,
I have been driving since december 2010 and been out on my own since about the 3rd week of feb, my question is will all 3 of those show on my dac report? and would they be considered as preventable accidents? and what are my chances of getting on with a different company? I ask that because they sent me through more unpaid training and said i could not file for unemployment and that was almost a month ago, i have bills to pay and nobody seems to care, any suggestions to what I should do? they havent told me how much longer this training is going to be, thanks in advance
minor accidents....need advice
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by newbiemaybe, Mar 21, 2011.
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All of those seem to be preventable.I do not see how you were not charged hitting a parked truck in the TA. Whether they will show up is uncertain. All you can do is wait it out and see what happens. My advice is to look for another line of work, seems like trucking might not be your best choice.
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