What to do after getting hit at a truck stop?

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  1. Old Man

    Old Man Road Train Member

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    Yes they will, just say great, so you’re not coming out when I kill the sob. They will show up.
     
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  3. ZVar

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    Then you get arrested for threatening someone. And there's still no police report made on the wreck.
     
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  4. bad-luck

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    I have found they respond, but Don't investigate crashes on private property. They do what commonly referred to as an information exchange on their departmental form.
     
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  5. shooter19802003

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    Nope. I've been through this several times. Most recently last month in Oregon. Cops said it happens on private property. Nothing they can do. A friend about a week earlier forgot the state got the same response. When he called. The cops said they go through this about 10x a week at the truckstop he was at and they couldn't help him.
     
  6. shooter19802003

    shooter19802003 Road Train Member

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    The times I have called personally and also some of my other drivers all get the same response. They will not even show up on private property.
     
  7. bad-luck

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    I have been back into in Georgia, and Maryland. Both times the police responded and did an information exchange
     
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  8. shooter19802003

    shooter19802003 Road Train Member

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    I imagine it has to do with state law and what state you are in. I try really hard not to go that far east.
     
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  9. bad-luck

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    Me too but I live here.... lol
     
  10. ZVar

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    Plus there are states like Michigan that even if the wreck happens on a public road willl not write a report if the officer believes that the damage is below a specific value. If I recall correctly it's $1,000 in Michigan.
     
  11. Hulld

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    This is exactly how went for me in that hell hole flying j off 81 in Winchester VA.
    It happened not once but twice in that same truck stop four years apart.
    Both times I called the VA state police and they sent out a trooper to do the information exchange.
     
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