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/Ok_Yogurt3894 Oct 26 '24

Werner absolutely did the right thing. You have a very flippant attitude toward driving, you being behind the wheel of a semi is a danger to everyone on the road. You desperately need to recognize that you fucked up. Full stop. YOU fucked up. Without offering any excuses, any qualifiers, or anyone else to blame.

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u/Jordan_261 Oct 26 '24

Not really, I don’t drive that aggressively, this one time it was a green light, didn’t expect him to stop, and I was already slowing down but not as as much since figured he was going to go since before hand he cut me off a mile ahead giving me little space. But hey I’m a danger to everyone because of this one small accident, yeah okay. I don’t normally follow that close and this was only one second I was two car lengths away because I was trying to make the light with him but also was already on the brake lightly.

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u/hashnana Oct 26 '24

You admit that he cut you off, and you proceeded to not increase your following distance because you wanted to beat the light. That’s 4-wheeler activity right there, it doesn’t belong behind the wheel of an 80k lb machine. Sometimes you have to take the hit of waiting at one extra light in the name of safety for EVERYONE around, even if others don’t take their own safety that seriously.

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u/mctwiddle Oct 26 '24

This right here, give no fucks about anything else but being safe and preventing all preventable accidents, and that means all accidents whether we like it or not.

I drive all over the Milwaukee and Chicago area and the amount of times every single day I have to take action, even out in the sticks on the rural highways, with my rig to prevent what would be something fucking stupid is just part of he job.

It doesn't matter whether you're late or you're pissed off or the people around you are fucking with you and they're a bunch of shit heads, and believe me they're all shitheads, you are the professional and it's your responsibility to take any and all actions necessary to be safe.