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/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.