Preventable Accident

Company people used to threaten alot. If you had any position at all you defended yourself in that dispatch room. This was before the days of qualcomm and cell phones etc. It usually determined who fired who or who gets to keep the job etc.

Im past it, over it. Let em yell. It does not bother me.

Now I suspect a bigger issue is your mind. You felt threatened. You need to find a way or activity or something on your own in downtime to get your mind off that Official Company Speak crap that can hurt you if you keep stewing about it.

Company politics, frivolity and make work along with threats etc are not exactly the best of trucking and it's not welcome. That is the kind of crap that can create a situation where you become unsafe with that truck stewing and getting personal over something like a dent or whatever. Find a way to get rid of it and tomorrow is a better day.

On really bad days I'll take time off. The truck will sit a while. Once I am fine then everything is fine except more yelling about the lost time. =)

You might be looking for another company I imagine. Pace yourself. It's going to be a long first year.

 

Learn from your mistakes and move on. I’d say after the accident you did everything right, the company was just folloing protocall. In the end it may even be deemed an incident. Imo that what this truly was. Like others said just make sure to goal and not let it happen again.

Good and honest drivers are hard to come by, so unless you’re at a mega, i doubt they would let you go over a couple minor incidents. Unless you let let them add up that is.

I’ll tell you even today i always turn my radio off and roll both windows down while backing up, and I never use the throttle unless i’m in a straight line. It makes it so much easier to hear and see things. Slow and steady. Others can wait. They’re in a hurry for you to back up but when it’s their turn to back up they won’t hesitate to make you wait.

A cb is 50/50. Sometimes it’s good to have on, sometimes not so much. Some drivers are butt heads like that.

 

yes, it'll be considered whatever they wish to call it, either an incident or accident, these things have dollar amounts assigned to them.

at your next job interview, where it asks, "any accidents", just list it and they will want an explanation. if you hide this and when it shows up on your DAC, that in of itself, will not get you hired, as you lied.

 

Forget the trucks. It's the ######## in the office that makes it a mega. Just measure the BS accumulation. If they are a simple down home trucking company and hardly anyone is home because everyone is away rolling, that's what you want. If you are in a place that has not moved much today and everyone is buried in politics and protocol etc then that's a poor place of employment.

Here in the south it's easier than that. If the office staff is all stressed, gaunt and profane then it's a mega. If everyone is well fed, happy and everything is golden, with a office that actually has a sense of order and actual monastery silence... then that's a outfit you want.

 

Yes it should. However DAC is not your problem. Some carriers don't pull DAC reports or report to them. Your problem is FMCSA rule §391.23 specifically (a) (2) and (c) (1) and (c) (2). Just 1 preventable is NOT a problem. Do your best to not make it 2 or more. After you start developing a history of accidents every time you have one more and more carriers will not consider hiring you. Moral of the story, stop worrying about DAC.

 

as long as it is not 35 cpm