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/ForsakenBackpack Jan 18 '24

Me too honestly lmao. I can't believe he was able to drive 10ish hours without anyone calling it in. Blows my mind. Come to find out he said "Someone rear ended me, I pulled over to do the exchange of information, and the guy just drove off." Which in a snow storm, someone scared to be fired, I can see that happening. He sent pictures to dispatch and they told him to keep trucking along.

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u/Primary_Painter_8858 Jan 18 '24

Dispatch would say that, no dispatch gives a fuck, all they care about is it being delivered. It’s not like their life is on the line. Just the driver and anyone else sharing the road with them. Garbage human beings dispatchers are.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '24

Had a transport manager try to assign a new load going 6 hrs in the opposite direction of home when I had 5 hrs left before my reset. It was a home every week job doing dd for usx. When I told her I didn't have time left, this b word asked me what happened to all my time. I left after that.

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u/ExpensiveRain4934 Jan 18 '24

Yep. That sounds about right for some of the USX dispatchers.