Non Preventable Incident

So, you going to stop carrying the banner for Swift and find yourself a real company to work for one of these days?

 

And if you do, don't go cheap. I got a cheap dash cam as a gift. It was great, albeit with really crappy video quality, right up until I needed it. I had a case of bambicide last year at night. It was a glancing strike off the passenger side. I clicked the button on the dash cam to save the video, knowing there wasn't enough impact to automatically record.

I downloaded the file. It had crappy night time video and audio right up until about three seconds before and after impact. The audio was fine, but the video froze and I didn't get a ###### thing showing how the deer came racing out of the pitch black night to end her life.

Get a GOOD video camera. Something with enough resolution to read license plates and reliable enough to actually record an event.

 

Probably not for at least a year now. That's a preventable DOT recordable accident to go with the failed level 2 post crash and an improper lane change all rolled into one event, combined with my 700 dollar 3rd lane in California ticket and my 1450lb overweight on my trailer axle in Missouri ticket where I tried to scale my load at the truck stop and their cat scale was down, so I ran it toward the next truck stop to scale it and got red lit on the prepass for a scale that said closed a few seconds before and they nailed me good on that one.

So no, probably not for a while. Just paid for a copy of my PSP and it only lists one inspection with no violations, no crashes and no tickets. But if/when I try to go to another company and fail to mention them anyway, Swift won't fail to mention me having a preventable accident.

Not sure what to do either because I was consistently getting over 3000 miles every week unless I went home. Now I'm very lucky to run 2800. In fact in the last 8 weeks, I've only gotten 2800 miles one time. It's like they know leaving isn't an option and that I have a truck which I can't afford to let sit and so they are starving me out of it.

 

Are you in a lease now? I thought you were a company driver.

 

I went through a bank to purchase I truck. Payment is just over half of what I would have had to pay for a lease. I can take this truck with me whenever. However, that's only in theory... because Swift is going to take a fat red marker to my DAC if I do lol

 

I went through a bad stretch like that about 6 yrs ago
Thought I'd be fired
Not even Gordon would hire me
The next year I was runner up for driver of the year out of 400
#### happens

 

Today. Buy a good dashcam.

That thing will eliminate he said she said they said and so on.

Today. Buy it. I have said this over and over. It's going to happen again and again, several times a year Ive dealt with people like that. The last one was on the cross bronx towards the GWB with 4 in a car that tried that on me in the rain. If they made dash cams that year (They did not...) it would be my number one video.

What these idiots don't understand that a new or nearly new ABS system at full function is a living god that I worship and use when I need to. That thing has made what would be a proper wreck something where It's avoidable.

 

Someone hit you while you were stopped, you have cam footage that shows you weren't moving at the time and you were held responsible? That's messed up.