Scraped trailer

This one time I backed off a busy street to a dock and ripped the mud flap off the tractor when I jumped the curb, Crete dinged me with an incident or something.
I’d of been better off throwing both mudflaps in a dumpster and telling them someone must have stolen them.

 

This incident is a good example of "no good deed goes unpunished".
There is not one driver on this forum, with any miles under his belt, that hasn't had a si

That's exactly how these topics on these forums get derailed.
Someone makes a comment, then someone else takes a poke at the guys family, in this case, Stay on topic!!!
I think JAMMER had the best comment of all, as to the topic at hand.

 

The problem with your logic is it's the owners 100 g's

 

That’s what I might have done. Quietly paid a T/A to fix it and nobody would know have known or cared. Calling the pencil pushers at Crete and tearfully confessing you wrecked the truck and please send me all the paperwork to pointlessly document it and waste a bunch of everybody’s time would be the last thing I’d do. And the thing is those office bozos and bozettas need any and every reason to justify the seat they keep warm all day so like I said you need to use judgement on these issues sometimes.

 

This is why this industry is ####ed. #### happens and when you terrify every driver with the threat of marking up their record for #### that happens in the course of regular business, what do you expect? Torn mudflaps and #### like that should be considered the cost of doing business. Hell you jump out into the oil patch or the bush and stuff like bent steps, torn mudflaps etc are just #### that happens.

 

Exactly right. The driver hit something and it was obviously his fault. It happens. If his company fires him for that he's probably better off. There are other, and probably better, jobs out there.

To cover up the incident and lie about it shows me the driver is dishonest. This goes for anybody who condones this kind of action. Covering up the damage shifts the blame to the next driver who gets the damaged unit.

If one of our drivers dings something and he tells us about it he'll probably get grumbled at a little but he won't get fired. But if he hides what he did or if he lies about it or tries to put the blame on somebody else when it was clearly his fault he'll be gone quick.
I figure, if he'll lie about little things, he'll lie about anything.

Ol' Chinatown usually gives pretty good advice. His response to the OP puzzles me.

 

If I owned the equipment, I'd want him to tell me. But if this is sincerely what happened, i wouldn't fire the guy. These "no accident" policies are getting out of hand.

 

It's his 100k that he made a mistake with.