I need help!!! Recently I was at a yard viewing trucks for sale. It was a 2006 freightliner c120. The engine was running and when I was exiting the truck my knee accidently bumped the gear shift and sent the truck in motion hitting two other parked trucks. I quickly jumped in the driver seat and pressed both the brakes and the clutch at the sametime but it failed to stop the truck right way. Now the company wants me to pay for all the damages but I can't help but feel there might have been a defect with the gear shift since it moved so easily or one of their employees did not correctly place the gear shift into place. Has anyone ever experienced anything similar? Please advise how to fight it?
Need advice!
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Texasflo, Jun 7, 2016.
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Apparently the Parking Brake was not set? Who started the truck? IF it was the dealer employee who started the truck and said hop in it would be his responsibility to set the Parking Brake.
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Before exiting the trk you should have made sure the red knob was set then the trk wouldn't have moved.
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Yellow knob
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blairandgretchen Thanks this.
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Parking brakes mister.
If you fired that thing up and is the only soul touching that truck that day... there is a real possibility you are it.
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Their employee started the truck and we were only inspecting it. What I did fail to do was to make sure the parking brake was engaged.
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Or were the brakes on and just that bad.
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