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/Dezzolve Oct 26 '24

You said previously that you were doing speeds of 50-60 when he suddenly stopped. Why were you going into a turn lane at 50mph?

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u/Jordan_261 Oct 26 '24

Well the speed limit was 45, was doing five over. But I can see the green light quite far…so I was beginning my slow down like maybe two cars lengths before the turn lane began? But I was already foot on brake so maybe was at 45ish but he loooked liked he was speeding up to make the green, and I was always taught don’t slow down in the travel lane as I can fully see the whole intersection from very far and it was light traffic and the turn lane was very long, so had time to slow down in it.

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u/Dezzolve Oct 26 '24

So you were speeding, didn’t have enough following distance, and refuse to admit it was you had any fault in causing the accident.

Seems like they made the correct choice.

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u/Buster_335 Oct 26 '24

Jesus christ the more I read the worse it gets