New Driver/ Roll Over Accident

Thank you gentlemen for your thoughts. Yes, the log dept. at Werner wil ensure that you maintain legal hours. However, the dispatchers have one objective and that is to get the freight shipped quickly and efficiently. Yeah, I took my break. What the log dept. doesn't know is that during breaks you do your paper work, drop and hook, etc. New drivers, such as myself often feel intimidated by dispatch. We want to make money. If were not rolling were going broke. My trainer who was from Columbia (he had a green card) only allowed my one shower a week.
The night before my roll over, I only had 4 hours of sleep. After the trip plan I realized that the only way that I could deliver this laod on time was to have the truck being loaded while I was on break. I had to start rolling the minute my break was over. This senario has been repeated over and over again. The previous week dispatch gave me a hazmat load to pick up when I only had two hours of service left. I told them that I would run out before I could get loaded and that the shipper does not allow overnight parking. They said go anyway. I ran out of time, had to shut down and Werner had to have me towed to the nearest truck stop. That's the law. Of course, dispatch was angry and when your dispatcher is angry with you, especially new drivers, there is hell to pay.

I don't remember the accident happening. When I went to the tow yard after my wreck, to retrieve my personal belongings, I noticed that all of my paper logs were missing. I know, Werner is paperless. I was told by vetran truckers, keep paper logs anyway. You may need them someday. All of mine were removed from my truck. What else can I say.

Sidetrack.