Prime accident policy?

Wow , must be that time of the month.

 

I don’t work for Prime, but from my experience, when the safety people ask me about a goof,
1. Own the goof. Take full responsibility. This is what will usually get a driver fired when he tries to shuck responsibility.
2. Tell them what you should have done instead.
Extreme Ownership. If you own it, you can change it.

 

100% agree. Good book BTW. I read it awhile back , If I remember you are the one who recommend it.

 

No feel good stories or opinions... just good advice.

 

That’s my guess too.

I don’t know if they’d let another incident slide though.

Best you advise him to be very careful going forward.

Not a Prime driver. Might want to post in Prime forum.

 

I did. One of my all time favorite books. If you want another read this one

I actually wish that I had read both when I was a kid. The Make Your Bed book is much shorter, but excellent.

 

OP, if your want a serious reply, you're gonna have to share how the accident happened. We are probably all assuming backing into a spot at the truckstop at night.

Sorry you lost your bonus on training an accident free driver for the next six months (which was the only reason you got informed by the Prime why they took your bonus away)

 

I read this a good while back, it is by far my favorite book. I've given copies to my son and 2 adult and 1 teenage grandsons. It should be required reading for every young man.

 

FIRST WEEK, and the fool signed up for one of those "lease to own" schemes? Wow.

So, to make things short, he can't get "fired", because he's NOT an employee; he's a CONTRACTOR.

What they WILL do is back-charge him for the damage, which will come out of his settlements, after Prime gets their cut, but before he puts down anything on the truck. Or puts anything into whatever account they may or may not have for him to save up for self-employment taxes to the IRS.

Regardless, something like 90% of people who get suckered by such schemes fail within about 2 years. The first major repair bill or the first year's tax payments usually destroy them, so the truck goes back to the lessor, and they get to do it all over again with the next sucker. Ain't 1099 trucking grand?????

 

Everything you said is spot ON accurate....clear, concise, and to the point.

I wonder if this is how trucking can get back to the days of glory, early '90's, the last era when truckers gave a ####.

IF EVERYONE was a 1099 trucker and had to pay for fuel, repairs, tires, HVUT, insurance, etc. Wouldn't that solve most of the issues when all drivers had some skin in the game? IE, they had to give a crap about what they were doing?