Finding A New Job With A Preventable Accidents On My Record

Eventually I was towed to the nearest terminal. I could not make it to terminal

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You will likely have very few options due to only a couple months experience and a preventable, as well as being terminated for safety reasons. This is why it is extremely important to always be monitoring your gauges and doing a thorough pretrip. Things typically show signs of needing to be repaired or replaced before it completely fails. Sometimes things just happen but most times there are warning signs of problems.

Be prepared to here many companies tell you no. It only takes 1 to say yes. I can almost guarantee you will be sent out with a trainer if you land with any reputable company due to such a relatively small amount of time behind the wheel. How would you handle this situation differently? Make sure you think of a good answer to that, I can assure you they'll be interested in that to see if you've learned and willing to take a chance on you. Did you work for one of the mega carriers? They tend to be much more forgiving when it comes to rookies making mistakes.

I was working for SWIFT when this happened.

My brake question still remains unaccounted for and steering is iffy. I don’t understand and until he does It sounds like a mysterious thing no company can move forward from. I do wish you well William D all I ask is to keep in mind we are accountable for safety and if something unsafe happens we are held accountable and it helps if we understand what we could have done differently.

This is curious. The truck malfunctioned...you hit a stationary object not any personal property or injuring other drivers. And you got fired. It is usually a 3 strike rule so sounds like some other things happened in the past?

Mechanically what your saying happened doesnt make sense, coolant tank has nothing to do with steering, plus im not seeing anything wrong with that coolant tank in the picture.

I told my dad what you described and with his 40 years of truck mechanic experience he laughed and said its impossible. Plus he and I doubt Swift or any decent company would have you drive a truck with accident damage, major coolant leak and no steering. In his 40 years of fleet experience he has seen drivers who wreck come up with all kinds of excuses for a accident but blaming a coolant problem for no steering is a new one

You may find a company to give you a 2nd chance but you have to tell the truth as this story will not pass the sniff test.

I cannot even begin to reply kindly so i won't. My other half.. an extremely experienced driver and mechanic says the coolant tank on top of the op's shoulders must have exploded.

I fully agree with BobCat.

I was driving down I-40 in Arizona when the Serpentine beat broke which forced me to crash into a guard rail. Also the Qualcomm was not working so it was hard to report it. When I got back they told me that I was terminated due to safety reasons.

Man so much sounds wrong about this.

Power steering fluid reservoir? Was PROBABLY what you was referring to if I'm not mistaking???? Correct me if I'm wrong.