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Posted: 6 years, 9 months ago
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I was thinking about the no big deal comment too.
My question is whether you got the ticket for speeding in adverse conditions at the same time as the non reportable accidemt?
you might think you were fired for the impact when you were actually fired for the speeding. for example, we got a fleet message that a veteran driver of 10 years was terminated automatically for excessive speeding downhill. no warning, just fired. he was in an 85mph zone out west and was doing 90 downhill.
ask for a copy of the DAC amd find out. Honestly, im curious as to why you care now. its been 3 mos. why now?
if your intention is to leave this company i would advise against it for another year. get at least one yrar of solid and safe driving with this company.
Yes I got the ticket in lue of my accident. After the investigation they concluded that I was going 44mph when I hit the brakes. Company policy is half of the posted speed limit. The posted speed limit was 65 for trucks so by policy I should have been going 32.5 or 33. So that is the real reason why but as I said it wasn't a big deal for me because the same day that the accident happened and they said I was suspended until further notice I made calls to find a new job. I was in Michigan. The company I'm with now bought me a plane ticket from Detroit to Atlanta GA and I started driving and making Wayyyyyyy more money. I was under a load for my new company exactly 3 days after my accident.
Posted: 6 years, 9 months ago
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I was terminated from my first company 3 months ago for a non dot reportable accident, no big deal there. It was my first accident ever and I started driving for another company the very next week so I've been with my new company for about 3 months.
No big deal? Apparently it was, you lost your job over it. What else happened?
Most companies will NOT terminate a rookie driver for only one minor accident at the three month mark. There are other circumstances surrounding this. Try to provide us with ALL the information...
Correct, the accident was a way to push me out. A few weeks before my accident I got into a verbal dispute with my DM about my sometime. It was a pretty heated argument but I wasn't in the wrong so they didn't write me up but the same week of the argument I was "coincidentally" pulled in for a random drug test. I passed the drug test so I was good but a couple of weeks later is when I had the accident. Everyone was surprised when they fired me but I knew why and I wasn't upset. I said "no big deal there" because it wasn't. Not sure if you saw where I mentioned but not even 3 days after being fired I started driving for the new company I've been with for 3 months now. I went from making 16 cents a mile to making flat rate $1100 a week. So there was no big deal with the termination. I was already looking to leave which they knew. I just wanted to know what would be on my DAC. I'm not unemployed or looking for a new company.
Posted: 6 years, 9 months ago
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Hello all, I was terminated from my first company 3 months ago for a non dot reportable accident, no big deal there. It was my first accident ever and I started driving for another company the very next week so I've been with my new company for about 3 months. I ordered my updated MVR and it doesn't mention the accident but it has my ticket listed (Too fast for road conditions for 2 pts). Since my mvr has no mention of an accident, does anyone know what my DAC will have on it since it was non dot reportable?
Posted: 6 years, 9 months ago
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Questions about my DAC
Folks I appreciate all of the responses but I believe you all are misunderstanding my typing or the way I'm wording my phrases. I in no way was saying the accident was not a big deal because obviously they are. I said no big deal in reference to me being unemployed for only 3 days. It was no big deal for me financially because I wasn't even unemployed for a week. All of the long paragraphs on operating 80,000 pound vehicles and how I'm a "genius" seems out of left field when I only asked would anyone have an idea of what's on my DAC. Also my new company knows about my accident and the ticket I didn't jump ship without telling them. So again I appreciate the response but it was wrong to assume that I wasn't truthful with my new employer. All of the talk about me burning Bridges and all seems like an attack when I came to a trucking community just for some advice. I take accidents seriously. So far and hopefully as long as the Lord says so for the future, at 31 yrs old that was my first accident in life in a cmv or a regular car. I only came for advice but I believe I was misunderstood. My apologies for even posting the question. None the less the shipper is done loading me so I'm going to close my doors and head to my destination.