Rubbed a tree limb, Accident or Incident???

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  1. BigDog Trucker

    BigDog Trucker Heavy Load Member

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    Uh huh. Then let the company owners get in the rigs. Lets see how fast they fold.
     
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  3. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    Rubbed the cheap aluminum so hard you could see the outside on the inside? But no hole? I guess it’s your story to tell.
     
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  4. BigDog Trucker

    BigDog Trucker Heavy Load Member

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    There was no hole. There was a rubbing off of the aluminum that keeps the sidewall and roof held together. Let me ask. If you park under a tree or some sort of structure, and say a brick falls and makes a hole through the plastic that comprises the roof of a trailer, is that the drivers fault too???
     
  5. shatteredsquare

    shatteredsquare Road Train Member

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    Accident or incident (defined) depends on where the authorities are able to place the cause (blame). An incident is something that just happened, nobody really at fault, no one was negligent. An accident is a direct cause of someBODY screwing up. Incident is bad enough to get caught in, accident usually worse, especially is you had anything to do with causing it. Best bet is to keep both constantly in your crosshairs, and show them your teeth if either of them start to show any interest in you.
     
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  6. SoCalRed

    SoCalRed Medium Load Member

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    BigDog you sound like an angry little chihuahua.
     
  7. BigDog Trucker

    BigDog Trucker Heavy Load Member

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    Lol. Ok grampa. You just keep truckin along while the industry goes into the toilet and drivers are ground into the dirt. Sh#t happens, yet these companies want their pound of flesh, yet they dont offer the same level of courtesy to the drivers?? Yeah, I can see how the unions came to be.
     
  8. BigDog Trucker

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    Lemme give you another story to illustrate my point. So I do a pre-trip on my truck thats already loaded abt 3wks ago. The #### tire has a split going down the sidewall. I go back inside and tell dispatch. Now, I coulda been a real dck and said no way am I taking the truck. But you know what I did when they said to just write it up and take the load?? Thats right, I took it. Yet, those same people now want me filling out bs paperwork for an accident that in the eyes of the AUTHORITIES was not. Get it now, pops?
     
  9. shatteredsquare

    shatteredsquare Road Train Member

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    If you give them an inch...
     
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  10. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    that would be some tree, if a brick falls outta it...

    i heard of "money trees". but not "brick trees"...

    and yes, it would be your fault, cuz you did not survey the area before parking..
     
  11. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    a percentage of companies, many owners were drivers, and might still be.
     
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