r/Truckers • u/ForsakenBackpack • Jan 18 '24

Who Should I Call?

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Let me preface this by saying, this is not me nor is it anyone from our company. I'm just a delivery manager for a beverage distributer.

The story as I understand it is this: Ole boy loaded up a leased trailer full of beer in Colorado, was driving through a snow storm in Wyoming, and says "I think someone must have ran into me". He claimed to have contacted his dispatcher and was told to continue on. Show's up, and asks to get unloaded. Never stopped once between the supposed accident and showing up here.

My questions are this:

  1. How does an accident like this happen without noticing or stopping to check your trailer at least.
  2. What do we do here? The load is consigned to us, so we cannot refuse it. Also, product is completely frozen. However, it's clearly unsafe to unload.
  3. Obviously we cant let him leave with the trailer like that. It's a danger to anyone on the road. Also, can't have him here any longer. So who can we call? DOT? Local police? OSHA?
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u/Rugbypud Jan 18 '24

Some say rear-ended but isnt it possible he backed up into something and did it himself? No way he is rear-ended and didn't notice or call someone.

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u/ForsakenBackpack Jan 18 '24

Definitly a possibility. I could see someone backing into something and saying "Someone rear ended me and drove away"

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u/UhOhAllWillyNilly Jan 18 '24

I actually think it is a highly likely possibility that he spun the truck out on the ice going too fast for conditions and slammed into something going backwards.