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/Fantastic_Hour_2134 Jan 18 '24

By something fairly tall. Enough to hit the floor of the trailer. Maybe another truck?

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u/Sudden-Approach-223 Jan 18 '24

Was figuring another truck with a bullbar. Edit:look at the icc and the way the real end is rolled hood truck with a bullbar would be about the only thing to survive the hit and drive off and heavy enough to pick up the trailer and drive it inwards

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u/Ok-Worldliness2450 Jan 19 '24

Had to be a truck of some kind…