My Chrisrmas gift today.....

You can always tell who the rookie drivers are. They're all perfectionists.

Crap happens. It's part of the job. Work trucks are supposed to get banged up. If your trucks body is cleaner than a newborn baby, you aren't working it hard enough.

Personally I would have called my employer and said "Hey, someone hit my mirror and left. I don't know who the other driver was".

 

I guess you can tell the guys who dont take pride in their ride
I think at 150000 miles this year I work hard enough
but I could be wrong

 

If you need help learning to lie, I'll hook you up with my ex-wife. She can help you. She's very good at it.

 

listen to him,lol

 

Thruout your carreer you're going to find out many times it doesn't pay to take things too serious.Because somehow someway your company will find a reason to blame you even though it wasn't your fault.

 

The thing that gets me is the fact it's ok to run off cause it's no big deal. The driver that got my mirror in Joplin the other day would have been told don't worry about it had he had the stones to talk to me. Bad thing is he had no business trying to park there anyway. How the driver that's hit handles it is up to him, but if your gonna clip somebody have the grapes to accept the outcome and talk to them.

 

You did the right thing.

 

As a rookie, you will be blamed for things and that'll tick you off for sure. I have known newbies that had the ever so slightest scrape on the truck, and got fired for not reporting it. Case in point. I once worked for an LTL carrier. The security guard (a private company) always would talk to us guys about driving. We would tell him it's not a job he would like, not to discourage him from driving, but to discourage him from driving, and get into something else. He would NOT listen. So he went to school got his license. Got a job with Marten. Was at a truckstop. As he pulled out, he slightly scraped the front bumper on one of those big yellow bollards (those big yellow poles that try to prevent you from hitting the building or some other important part of the property).

Ok, he returns to the terminal. The mechanics rat him out, he get's fired and blackballed. Ok, i saw the pics, I can attest, that it was indeed the tiniest of a scrape, but you could see the yellow paint, and NOT even a deep scrape mind you. All he could have done was rub out the paint. But he didn't think to. Want to know why? It was such a light scrape, he never felt it. He got fired that day, took the pics as he was leaving the property to get to the bus station.

so yeah, as a rookie/newbie, one has at times every right to be nervous about some damages. But if you can fix it yourself, and as long as the damages are confined to say under $25 (maybe the price of the mirror?) then take care of it. Is it dishonest to the company? Maybe so, but all the companies NEED is a quick reason to fire someone. I would find it so hard to believe that none of the other drivers here have never fixed something and never told the company. What happens at times, stays there at times.

 

You know, I'm just not surprised anymore at some of the things I hear. People are just out for themselves too much anymore. Sorry to hear about the incident but at least it wasn't much worse buddy.