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<p>[QUOTE="crocky, post: 8079977, member: 200207"]Perhaps read the link I posted with the topic from here... Its pretty obvious what happened just by reading posts from the 1st page of that topic..</p><p><br /></p><p>If Mercer terminated their lease, its stands a very good chance that they took the truck plates and insurance away as well if they were running insurance/plates from Mercer...</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering Mercer wanted them to bring the trailers back, its probably a given they pulled the plates/insurance aswell...</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2 incidents were over a year ago by the time I'd be applying anywhere. Neither were on road/traffic so they may not be on my dac, I'll have to wait and see.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as lots of drivers being out there for years with no incidents I'm sure there are and I just got hit by one of them a week ago while sitting parked in my truck.. A guy been driving 17 years turned wrong into a tight pull through and smacked the front of his trailer into the back of mine...</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone can make a simple mistake even someone driving 17 years...</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention how many of these guys didn't report #### they did.. In both of my incidents I probably could have gone unreported.. but I'm honest so I did what I was supposed to do.. I'm sure many drivers would have ran like hell at 4am after tapping a truck side skirt so lightly that the other driver didnt wake up until I knocked on his door..</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit.. for the record, got my dac report today and only have the one backing incident reported which was not DOT reportable and in Jan it will be 1 year, so I would assume I'm good to go considering it was less than $500 damage as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="crocky, post: 8079977, member: 200207"]Perhaps read the link I posted with the topic from here... Its pretty obvious what happened just by reading posts from the 1st page of that topic.. If Mercer terminated their lease, its stands a very good chance that they took the truck plates and insurance away as well if they were running insurance/plates from Mercer... Considering Mercer wanted them to bring the trailers back, its probably a given they pulled the plates/insurance aswell... The 2 incidents were over a year ago by the time I'd be applying anywhere. Neither were on road/traffic so they may not be on my dac, I'll have to wait and see. As far as lots of drivers being out there for years with no incidents I'm sure there are and I just got hit by one of them a week ago while sitting parked in my truck.. A guy been driving 17 years turned wrong into a tight pull through and smacked the front of his trailer into the back of mine... Anyone can make a simple mistake even someone driving 17 years... Not to mention how many of these guys didn't report #### they did.. In both of my incidents I probably could have gone unreported.. but I'm honest so I did what I was supposed to do.. I'm sure many drivers would have ran like hell at 4am after tapping a truck side skirt so lightly that the other driver didnt wake up until I knocked on his door.. Edit.. for the record, got my dac report today and only have the one backing incident reported which was not DOT reportable and in Jan it will be 1 year, so I would assume I'm good to go considering it was less than $500 damage as well.[/QUOTE]
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