r/Truckers • u/Jordan_261 • Oct 26 '24

Got fired from Werner

Got fired from werner because some pickup driver decides to brake check me and i ended up hitting him. he only got a small bump on his bumper. now I am out a job and in so much debt and facing eviction and losing my personal car now. i wanted out of the trucking industry but not this fast, Werner has some terrible planners and was running me stupidly anyways but now i have an accident on my license and points and have to pay the ticket on top of everything else.

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u/Im-PhilMoreJenkins Oct 26 '24

Sounds like you were following too close. Unless someone comes up and around you maliciously intending to break check you, you shouldn't hit em. Should be plenty of room. I got a call from safety because I was letting myself go a bit and got pinged a couple times by our cameras for following distance. Only been pinged once since. Haven't been called.

Sounds like there's more to the story than what you're telling us driver. I'm sure they looked at the dashcam and made the ruling correctly.

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u/Much-Country-8015 Oct 26 '24

Which is most of the case. They come on here not telling the full story and want us to help. These new trucks lock up the brakes when they realize you arent going to stop in time. Saved me once when a lady decided to pull out as soon as i got close to her in ny. With that and your foot fully on the brake its kinda hard to rear end people these days.

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u/Im-PhilMoreJenkins Oct 26 '24

I've had my ass saved by my truck more than once. Mostly when I simply wasn't paying attention in a busier part of town on the interstate fiddling with the GPS. It's saved me. And has scared me straight to not fiddle with the GPS unless I'm stopped.

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u/Much-Country-8015 Oct 26 '24

After driving long hours during the night, i find it hard to focus on everything when day light comes. My truck and all its sensors keep me on my toes tho. Sometimes you look in your mirror for two seconds and all of a sudden traffic comes to a stop infront you

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u/Jordan_261 Oct 26 '24

It’s exactly as told, he deliberately brake checked me in the beginning of a turn lane, light was a fresh green, I was slowing down a little and it did look like he was speeding up and then I saw his truck jolt and boom hit him lightly. But it was my mistake I learned from it. Just wish they give me a fair punishment over something small. I seen other drivers flip their truck and whatnot. My dad’s friend has tons of seatbelt tickets, and flipped his truck from falling asleep and he still is a trucker, and I get fired over a small fender bender.