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Should a driver pay for leaving their keys inside the truck?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by rpad139, Dec 2, 2019.

Should drivers pay the bill if they get locked out of their truck?

Poll closed Dec 9, 2019.

  1. Yes, drivers are responsible for not carrying a spare key and should pay the fee

    92 vote(s)
    81.4%

  2. No, the company should pay for the lockout fee.

    21 vote(s)
    18.6%
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  1. Dec 3, 2019 #41
    adayrider

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    Technically your right but I did lock myself out of my KW once. I lock the door went to bed then got up and opened the door but didn't pull handle hard enough and lock only come half way up. Then got out and shut the door and the lock dropped back down and lock me out. Happened another time but window was down.
     
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  3. Dec 3, 2019 #42
    TripleSix

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    He’s right tho. Stupid hurt, Stupid learn.
     
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  4. Dec 3, 2019 #43
    bryan21384

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    Volvo is the same way. Though I still have a spare key. If the OP was at a truck stop, someone with the same model truck may have been able to get it open. I know you can do that with most freightliner, some internationals, and volvos
     
    bryan21384, Dec 3, 2019
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  5. Dec 3, 2019 #44
    kemosabi49

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    When I had an FLD I had a guy ask to use my key to unlock his truck. Said he locked the keys in it. Something about him made me wary and I told him no. A little while later some other guy came out with his shower bag, got in the truck and left. Saw the first guy walking around later. This was at the Ontario, TA.
     
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  7. Dec 3, 2019 #45
    HoneyBadger67

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    I got myself stuck once in mud and paid a garbage truck driver $20 to get me out. Being a flatbedder and having your own chains is handy sometimes. BUT I got grabbed by a frost boil in NoDak and made the owner pay because he sent me there.
     
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  8. Dec 3, 2019 #46
    Bill51

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    I just knock on the sleeper and have the lot lizard let me in.
     
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  9. Dec 3, 2019 #47
    25(2)+2

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    Stuff happens, different truck, usually, and a really screwed up schedule, which no amount of trying to sleep away from home will fix.

    I carry spares, have a key outside, ad nauseum, and still got locked out, but I borrowed a fish from that shop and got in much quicker than waiting.
     
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  10. Dec 4, 2019 #48
    BackwoodsGA

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    ###### man.
     
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  11. Dec 4, 2019 #49
    Judge

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    Am I the only one who thought of this..
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  12. Dec 4, 2019 #50
    mustang190

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    I have 3 keys. One for the ignition one on my personal key ring and another hidden on the outside of the truck. Been doing that for forty years.
     
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