My rookie year in review

Just crossed 1 year driving just a couple days ago. Gonna make a round up of the stuff that's happened in the last year.

Preventable accidents: 1 Damage: $100
Info: Scraped another trucks side mirror. (nothing on driving record) (non dac)

Non-Preventable accidents: 1 Damage: $600
Info: Side swiped hit and run in Chicago by a car. That was the day I found out my dashcam wasn't recording.

"If nobody saw it did it really happen accidents": 2 Approx damage: Unknown.

Info: Bumped another trailer in my first month of driving while backing in a dark yard. Funny since it was one of our company trailers.
#2 Was very tired one day and was lost in a steel mill. Made a left turn around a guard shack, saw my wheels were gonna clear but didn't notice the guard shack roof sticks out about 3 feet. Hit the corner of the roof of the guard shack, scraped it 3-4 feet. Guard looked at me, I looked at him and he just waved me through. The roof corner was already destroyed from what appeared to be another idiot like me who hit if before. Never heard anything from the company.

All these things happened in my first 6 months of driving.

Total miles (Roughly): 80,000
Net income after taxes: $45,000 CDN.
Total states operated in: 24
Close calls: 5
Highest speed reached: 82MPH
Carriers worked for: 2

Lessons learned:
-Take directions given from your QC with a big ### grain of salt.
-Proper trip planning is key to stress free driving.
-Watch that tail swing in U-Turns seriously.
-If you don't feel comfortable driving in bad weather, don't drive.
-Dont drive tired
-That route given by your company is not always the fastest even if it's less miles.
-Driver managers are not your friends.
-Dont get too reliant on GPS routing
- Watch for overhead obstructions (Power lines, Tree branches, Corner roofs)

Just curious to know how y'all did in your first year as a new driver? What are some things you learned when you were in your first year of driving?

Information from this site helps greatly. Could of been much worse off. I still consider myself a new driver for atleast another year.