Thanks USA Truck...

ha ha....NO YOU ARE.....LOL

 

Man get over it already.

 

My comment was more towards the look of the USA circus clowns.

 

I just talked with the owner of the businesses access the street from me that a USA Truck pulled the power feed lines down from.

USA Truck gave him the complete run around and if he wants to get compensated by them he will have to get a lawyer. It’s more money for the lawyer then to get repair the damage and as he has a son who is an electrician he decided to just eat the cost rather than hassle with a lawsuit (I’m sure that is what USA Truck was hoping for).

I hope you have better luck getting them to take responsibility.

 

It's a fight with the big companies. I was side swiped a couple years ago by a Stevens driver while I was sleeping on a side street. It took a couple months to get a check from them. I did get compensated for 2 days downtime (shop) and my truck was driveable after the accident but it still stunk. The biggest issue is taking them to court would have cost me another few days of missed work so I took the settlement check, patched up the truck and moved on. Thank god it wasn't a new truck like yours. I hope they do right by you.

 

Martin,
I would just call their insurance company and let them take it over. USA is going to drag their feet in hopes of wearing you down and you just going away. I know that getting the insurance companies involved is not the best way to go but let them buy the lawyers and fight it out amongst each other. You were hit by their driver, there's pictures to prove who hit who. You even have video of a guy who wasn't doing so well on a field sobriety test but in all actuality that video won't stand for anything in court because the lawyers for USA and/or their insurance company will show that there's no proof the guy in the video was actually the driver of the truck. Everyone except a couple of tools on this forum believe it was the driver but the lawyers will have that video suppressed as evidence in an instant.

I wish you the best of luck in your uphill battle with them, just be careful what you say and where you say it. I was running down the highway in Minnesota a few years (about 18 years) ago and some idiot farmer chased a cow right out onto the highway in front of me. Let just say an 800# cow does some serious damage to the front end of a 379 Pete. Well even with all the witnesses, the statements etc. the guy got out of paying for any of the damage because of one little comment that I made "now I'm not going to make my delivery on time". His insurance company lawyer turned that factual statement against me and the end result, he didn't have to pay because I was in a hurry to make a delivery appointment even though the two witnesses running the same direction I was said in sworn statements to the court that I was driving under the speed limit and had been since leaving Worthington. The worst part, I made that comment joking with the tow truck driver but both the owner of the cow and the cop heard it and it was used against me.

 

They are almost certainly self insured like most large carriers.