Brian, that scenario can be handled a lot of different ways by the companies themselves. But generally speaking, if your truck is wrecked badly enough to need extended repairs they're going to get you to the nearest available truck. That might be 10 minutes down the road, it might be halfway across the country. But they'll handle it and cover the cost of everything.
As far as lost wages go, well that's one benefit of being a company driver instead of a business owner. The worst thing that will happen to you is you'll go a few days without a paycheck. Some companies might give you some kind of pay but I doubt it.
One time I was driving an experimental Volvo for US Xpress that had disk brakes on it. Well I had maintenance done at a terminal and they forgot to put the fill plug back on the rear end and it burned up the gear. Well I was put in a hotel room in Albuquerque and the local dealership said they would get it done in a day or two. Every day I would call and they'd say, "Hopefully tomorrow". Believe it or not I stayed in that hotel for eight days before we finally gave up on them fixing it. Turns out the parts had to be custom ordered from Sweden because they were a one-off custom build for this truck. It would have been nice if they had told us that right away. So my company put me on a bus from Albuquerque to Oklahoma City to pick up a different truck. They then routed me back to Albuquerque to get the rest of my stuff out of that truck.
The company covered the cost of the hotel room and bus trip but I can't remember what I got (if anything) for breakdown pay. Honestly I never cared about layover pay or breakdown pay because it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I had fun running around the city for a week and enjoyed it like a vacation.
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
I can understand loss of pay because of a break down, that's not really anyone's fault, but I was wondering more about being disabled because of a crash that was not your fault. I would think your company would go about recovering their losses from the insurance company of the driver at fault, just not sure if they would fight for the drivers loss also......RE miles lost, possible lodging, pre.planned load missed because of delay etc.
Could add up to a significant amount of lost wages for the driver that he would have made had his schedule not been disrupted by the person at fault
If it was just a few days of down time then you might get layover pay which in most cases is $50. A hotel room would be paid for by the company through reimbursement. So far as lost wages cause you not driving? Your not driving so you can not expect to be paid.
Most cases if the truck will be down a few weeks or totalled the would send you to get another truck using a rental car or air fare they company would pay for.
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So to the experienced drivers out there who may have been involved in an accident or collision that was in NO way your fault......hit a moose.......deer......bear, or were rear ended by a 4 wheeler, or t-boned by an impaired driver running a red light .....snow storm and icy roads caused another vehicle to cross median hitting you.
now you rig has sustained major damages that will take it out of service for say a couple of weeks to get repaired. How and who covers the cost of your lost wages, down time, expenses of getting a different truck from your carrier, your travel say to get the rig etc.
Just wondering how this type of senario is worked out. You have lost wages not being able to deliver, would be some lost time getting into a replacement truck, travel involved with making it happen etc.
Obviously the damages to cargo & truck would be the insurance company......but do they also cover what expenses you would have getting back on the road??
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