Preventable accident as a student. Am I unhireable right now?

yeah there are times, if im just shutting down at a truck stop or something like that I do tend to look for one of the easier spots just so im in it quicker and easier, I rather work easier than harder, save the hard backs for those docks designed by some chimp 50 years ago.

If I do hold someone up then ohwell, I probably wont see the person again so who cares what he thinks, im sure that driver had those moments as well....Now if I screw up my backing and decide to reset myself up then I will signal the driver to go past me and then I go for it again. What I hate are those impatient drivers who will just squeeze and zoom past you when your trying to menuever around.

 

Absolutly right!! 10-4

 

Your trainer should have got fired too.How severe was the damage and where was your trainer when this happened?Was he sleeping or in the jump seat?

 

Just another one, i bet you there is a red flag on your dac where they lie about how much it cost for the damage or if you know you hit the trailer very hard where they will have to spend thousands to fix it that's another thing. GOAL, clean mirrors, patience nd move slow these are a few keys to use when you backing. Covenant transport, Werner, crengland, swift, western express, paschall truck lines if you can't get hired with these people you better start calling your local mc donalds or burger king for a job go flip burgers for 3 years then we will see you later on.

 

Them trainers don't care as soon as u get in a hickup they will tell u really quick ur under the wheel it's ur ticket. And with the drivers having the backing accident I was told in a swift backing class if your not sure get out and look. If u 2 lazy 2 get out and look that's how u make mistakes on backing. Then with the student backing that trainer should have got off his butt as helped his student. Now we have 1 less bad trainer out here.

 

I’m not sure why people think that just because a company doesn’t use DAC they won’t find out about his accident .It doesn’t mean that they won’t do any checks on him, just that they don’t use DAC to perform the checks. Very few companies will hire someone without checking anything at all, especially a driver with no experience.

All companies are required by law to have you disclose the last 10 years of commercial driving history and when he discloses he had only worked for the former company a few weeks they will almost certainly call them to find out why he was let go. I guess he could try lying on the application and not disclose the job but they will probably check with his school if he clams no driving history at all and find out he was hired by the other company.

I would personally suggest full disclosure of it to any company you apply to and hope to find a company that is willing to give you another chance.

 

I'm still waiting on the ( long story ) . Being a newbie to all this stuff , it would help a lot of new people know what to expect. Maybe it was just minor and you got a bad break, or maybe major damage.

Would you mind sharing a little more info ?????

 

I was hired after a preventable. Later on I asked the safety guys why they hired me. She said that she looked at the total picture. How much was the damage, What was the cause, What proof I had about my version of the story, How was I assessed by the person who took me out on the road test, how much experience I had etc etc. Nice people eh?

 

I had the same thing happen with my trainer. He had me driving sundown to sunrise right from the first day in the truck (while he slept) Like an idiot, I thought "he must know what he's doing" because he was quite a bit older than me. Finally after a week of this and completely fatigued, I damaged another truck trying to park somewhere, anywhere (of course, I didn't know how to park), I was so tired I couldn't think straight. Luckily, I wasn't fired over it. I don't know what happened to my trainer, when we got back to the terminal, I never saw him again. It was a valuable lesson about fatigue and the advise you're getting here is bang on. Don't let it get it to you, keep on keeping on.