Got A Preventable

So i parked on the side of the road bobtail to retrieve info. Driver's side tires on pavement passenger side on gravel and dirt. The truck started sinking and i started to get stuck but i was able to get out. I sunk maybe 6 or 8 inches pretty deep. Any way someone took pictures and my company called about it we talked it out but no one told me it was a preventable. I had to find out by mail. I dont feel like its a preventable. By looking at the side of the road you can see that trucks stop there all the time because the grass isn't growing.

Did you inform your driver manager once you got yourself "unstuck"?

It's definitely a preventable (albeit minor) and has nothing todo with what other drivers did parking there before you.

Trucks are heavy, even a bobtailed tractor weighs enough to make a mess of soft ground.

Call your driver manager and talk it through; gain some understanding, offer a huge/humble apology and discuss ways of preventing it in the future. You made a mistake, try to learn from it.

Preventable what? incident or accident? there is a difference and many companies will differeniate.

Accident is DOT recordable by FAT...Fatality, Ambulance (injury) or Tow.

if you werent towed and did not hurt or kill anyone, and there is no excessive damage to the truck....did they declare it an "incident"? although it is still bad, it might not carry the severity of an accident.

Seems like a bunch of b.s. to me. No, parking on the side of the road isn't smart, but if no equipment or property damage occurred, then

I gotta agree that’s being petty. If all it caused was a couple ruts I can’t see any static over it. We occassionally get stuck at customers, no big deal

I gotta agree that’s being petty. If all it caused was a couple ruts I can’t see any static over it. We occassionally get stuck at customers, no big deal

I agree as well, based on what we know here, but it sounds like maybe a property owner called and complained about damage to their "lawn" or something, because if not there just couldn't be an issue. So.....if we chew up someone's lawn while spinning tires getting unstuck, and the property owner complains and sends photos to the offender's company, well, we are going to get dinged for it. Like G-Town indicated, we need to own up and promise not to have this problem again.

I owned up but it says preventable accident. No tow, no damage to truck just some rutts^^. And they have other marks like this along their property. I had to pass them twice within the last 24 hours to drop off and pick up. Even the asphalt at the intersection has rutts in it. Apparently the road is just as weak at some points.