Who Pays for catastrophic failures when driving for company

Could be both, depending on the company . . .

 

^^^^ most CERTAINLY should be~!

 

That's a very expensive loss to the company so it could result in termination along with a bad mark on your DAC report.But some companies will charge you and still put a preventable on your record.Some things should never happen and the driver should know what to do to prevent it from happening otherwise that driver needs more training.

 

Congratulations. You just screwed yourself!

 

Written or not, they can claim it intentionanal and go after you for damages.

Your cdl precludes any claim of ignorance.

 

Ive grenaded the truck in several different ways at a hill at a light.

They fix it. Then give the truck back to you as punishment. My last truck I trashed was a 9800 transtar conventional and that one did a wheelie before it's entire drives broke. Employer blamed me because I don't know how to shift. But they fixed it and handed it back to me in 3 weeks. I finally quit a short time after it's floor fell out on the interstate. Im convinced that was a sort of a Christine trying to kill me personally. And they fixed that too.

Fix fix fix fix. Bleah. And if you are stupid enough to stay with them and have the POS handed back to you... I cannot help you.

Trucks I can break, if I wanted to. But the good ones that did break will have me hovering over the mechanic's shoulder until they throw me out because I want it working well again. Those are worth keeping.

A word of warning, they hand you a POS truck, don't even take it out. Turn around and go home.

 

I'd think it would depend greatly on the situation. As a ( former) truck owner, ( no drivers tho) I figured in that it was going to break, no matter how careful I was, and it's part of doing business. As an owner, and you aren't a total screwup, I'd get it fixed, give you a stern warning, and get going.

 

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