With the amount of SPACE between the truck attempting to back out and the truck that was allegedly hit, I find it hard to believe the truck that was hit didn't see what the backer-upper was trying to do and intentionally put his truck in a position to be hit..."me first" attitude, as he felt he had every right to get backed in before that other truck could finish backing out. It would be different if the incident occurred 3-4' after the backer-upper had started backing up...but we're looking at what looks to be 40-50' the backer-upper had already travelled before the incident occurred. Definitely a "preventable" on the part of the truck that got hit. And as far as the backer-upper is concerned, the coast was likely clear as he was backing out...until the impatient clown moved in. Should he have seen him in the mirrors? Possibly. However, if that trailer was trailing off to the blind side as he backed out, well, his view behind could have been obstructed by his own trailer. Sure, he could have got out and looked...which is why it was preventable on his part, too. Impatient fool needs his rear end kicked. Backer-upper needs to pay more attention. Both should get dinged with a preventable and pay for their own stuff to get fixed.
But you only get to choose one to blame. You'd be the person that would demand to hug every pony too.
Ok, then, it was the impatient @-hole's fault, as he's the one who would have had to have his head so far up his own rear end to have missed what was about to happen if he put his truck there. The possibility exists that the backer-upper couldn't see what was about to happen, so I'll ggive them the benefit of the doubt. Still a "preventable" incident on both of their records, but if I HAVE to choose one or the other, the preponderance of the evidence suggests the guy setting up to back into the space to be at fault because he saw what was happening and chose to do the opposite of what any intelligent & courteous person would have done in that situation.
The hazards of pulling head in and backing out. So many things could have prevented this on both sides... Don't pull in, team trainer could have hopped out to spot the drivers back, use of mirrors, the other driver blowing air horn long and loud, and other driver maybe could have moved out of the way to prevent it too if he wasn't half way in the hole.... But if there can be only one... The truck backing up is at fault. I wanna hear the trainer explain to the company just how this little boo boo happened... LOL
This just isn't true. I was backing into a spot an some jackwad tried to drive behind me, his truck got tore up pretty good. It was on private property but company had me call the sheriff out anyway and take a report. All said an done no citations and a non/preventibal by co.
One of the unwritten trucking rules that is never taught anymore or at least it seems this way. Truck backing up has right of way all other trucks should stop and let that driver handle their business.
^^^^^ for you, @driverdriver . I so agree. Common-sense, courtesy, and commonality. There's not enough of ANY .... anymore~!
But they were both backing up... Quest would have mainly been looking out his right side to get in a spot and Swift backing out of a spot blinded by the trailers on each side.
