Will he be fired?

Wrong here too about Safety Dept NOT being opened at night. The Safety Dept would ALWAYS HAVE either a voice mail or answering machine 24/7/365. And in extreme emergencies, a standby person for serious accidents.

 

Yeah, I'm still learning how to do things on the boards like multi-post. I did say however, *advice/information*, again, I left in shades of gray to cover as much that was said here.

 

We do not know the short answer. But, if he doesn't report it ASAP to SAFETY, and there is either a witness or video of the accident, he WILL be charged with *Hit & Run*. Yes, a dumb mailbox/pole suffered an ill fated death, and that's funny I suppose. But Safety will not tolerate *Hit & Run*. Again, what's to say he has another mishap/accident, and he doesn't report that, and someone is seriously injured? Just owe up to it ASAP, take the hand slapping and the Riot Act speech, and he will be fine, and so will his girlfriend. And by the way, I know he reported it to DISPATCH, but dispatch can DENY any and all contact with him, and they can even say they told him to call Safety. Don't forget, its passing the buck.

 

Middle of the night - he called the company, probably q'd them too - very likely no safety people there at the time. Worse comes to worse, his cell phone records will show a call to dispatch at the appropriate time. But no, you have him facing a possible hit-and-run scenario?

Come on man - this is nothing; and there is about a 99.999% chance that it will always be nothing. Why dwell on the highly improbable?

At any time, in any of our lives, the very worst or very best possible thing can happen; but rarely, if ever, does. Example; he could have gotten struck by lightning when he got out to look at the mailbox, or he could have found a winning powerball ticket on the ground. Either are possible - neither are likely.

This is absolutely nothing to worry about.

 

I agree, I would not stress out over this too much. He called dispatch and was up front, who knows, maybe safety has already resolved this issue and he is being issued a letter right now. For a new driver, or any driver for that matter, hitting anything is not good, but if your gonna hit something I guess a mailbox is the way to do it. I would think that it's not a fireable offence. My guess, which is only that, that there would be no video focused on a mailbox in the driveway to a business, and just because it's in LA does not mean every biz has video security, quite the oppisite in fact. Anyway Leeannmarie, dont wig out too much.

 

Ridiculous - he hit a mailbox - not a busload of nuns.

 

No I just imagine the post office mailbox would be taken quite a bit more seriously than just a regular one. You know the kind that people drop mail into, the post office comes and dumps all the letters out type deal.

 

I doubt that - both are inanimate objects with little monetary value. Furthermore, the accident was non-DOT reportable, will not go on his MVR, and is very likely (in spite of some of the paranoia spewed here) going to be nothing more than a learning experience.