STORY- Hurricane- Non preventable!

That story had all the necessary ingredients for a life-long memory!

 

Best of luck to you, O/P. Wow, just wow. What a nightmare. Sorry.

 

Actually an incident rather than accident, but semantics aside what’s your gripe? Would you prefer a preventable rather than a non-preventable?

 

Finally ... someone catches the non issue.

 

Did you read the part where he said the parked car got flooded due to a hurricane?. If you parked your truck at a truck stop and it caught fire after being hit by lightning would you prefer preventable or non-preventable written on your DAC?.

 

Let me just clear something up.

If your driving a rental and being paid for it... you are technically on duty. You are doing work for the company.

The same goes for flying. If its being paid to sit there and fly.... technically it is on duty.

I just wanted to clear that up @TommyTrucker88 Before you do it in the future again and it comes around and bites you.

 

I was just about to say this. All time spent driving a rental or flying is logged on duty because you are performing work for the company and getting paid to do so.

 

Actually I did, and I would prefer a non preventable which means I could do nothing to prevent the incident, vs a preventable which means I could have done something to prevent the incident. Only a fool would want a preventable rather than a non-preventable. Again I ask, what’s his gripe?

Almost forgot your fire. I want a non-preventable meaning I could do nothing to prevent it vs a preventable meaning I could have stopped the fire but went out for pizza and beer instead.

 

Wait a second. Did i read that right. You had less than 1 year driving experience and was a trainer?

 

You went into the area to get a tractor trailer at company direction instruction and their payroll. Thus it is non preventable.

Congrats on surviving your first storm. But hopefully you are wiser now and do not go into anymore of these storms.

The belongings are gone, they can be replaced. You probably will spend far less money at retail buying new replacement stuff than trying to retreive old flooded stuff. Life is what's NOT replaceable.

I remember a storm some years back, probably Katrina where a trucker rode his rig clean off the mobile bay crossing and straight into the bay because the bridge itself was destroyed. He drowned.

I suggest to you one little word to learn and use in the right context "No" next time dispatch thinks you are the fall guy to be sent into a storm to do something say no.