Unreported accident

I've been driving solo for my company since March 12 of this year. A few day ago I was at a customer in Kentucky and when I was hooking the truck around to back up towards their dock I nudged a car's bumper that was parked along the outside edge of the pavement. I immediately pulled forward and pulled the brakes then went in and told the shipping office what happened. We found the owner of the car and he looked at the bumper and just shrugged it off saying it was nothing. The shipping office told the safety team and they put together a report but he took me in and urged them to not blow it up or tell my company because he was going to work it out with me. All of the people there were very nice and understood all of the crap we drivers have to deal with. They told me they would not send the report to my company if we worked it out. All I did was scuff his bumper with my tire and break a red reflector. He said he would just tell insurance someone bumped him at walmart, but i told him I'd pay out of pocket for his damage since he was nice about everything. I thought about it for the rest of the day and asked my old trainer for advice. Someone from the company could go ahead and send that report and I'd be canned immediately for not reporting it, so I just weighed my options. I went ahead and came clean to Safety when I stopped for the day about five hours after the incident and they were pretty pissed about not reporting it right away. I have to report every little scratch and ding and take pictures with my PeopleNet tablet or else its a deal breaker. I gave them the contact information for the customer to get the safety report, but when I was there I didnt even get anyones name because my mind was going a million miles an hour and running on only a few hours of actual sleep (I'd been driving all night). Since I'm new and they have all this money invested in me are they likely going to fire me? I'm pretty sure that guy isn't going to turn around and sue the company. They said to get with my fleet manager about getting routed back to my home terminal for disciplinary yelling and training videos but I haven't heard anything even after I told her and no one has notified her of anything either. This job is my big break and I think i may have shot myself in the foot.

 

No, actually there were plenty of witnesses and it was in the safety report. Even the head of safety was there. Pretty much everyone on the shift was there with both of us in the shipping office while we talked it over, and he was indoors working when it happened. Im guessing its a matter of whether or not my company wants to see a return on their investment in getting me going with them.

 

Thanks. If I were to guess Id say it's about a 50/50 chance.

 

Just didn't want it looming over my head, but now I may have a lot more.

Missouri