Steve66:
My question is that even if it’s a number of silly knocks, 4 I believe in 3:months, an accident is an accident.
An accident is something that was unavoidable. Sounds like they were avoidable given they only involved one person.
Can it lead to the driver being disciplined if he has followed company procedure to the letter on each occasion?
Namely reporting it to the people concerned, informing the company and then filling out their forms etc.
They have threatened disciplinary.
Yes.
Surely they can’t but what do you guys think?
He’s clearly incompetent or just doesn’t give a stuff. Reporting the collisions to people and filling out forms doesn’t change the fact.
NO Accidents, NO damage to company property, NO endorsements…NO convictions…and i get sacked for telling a driver he has a serious body odour problem that transfers to his cab…thats life i guess and sorry for keep reminding you all, it still ■■■■■■ me off.
Saaamon:
Sometimes you have to scrape it abit here and there to get it in…
No you don’t! If you cant get it in without knocking it, the vehicle is too big, and should either be unloaded as close as possible, or transhipped onto a smaller vehicle!
Also, you may get it in with a minor scrape, but getting out could mean a whole different thing! Why risk it■■?
When i was doing builders merchant work sometimes you just had to go for it, bringing the load back wasn’t.
rambo19:
I’m a bus driver.
2 at fault accidents within 2 yrs=sacked.
Same at my place , two preventable incidents in 24 months no matter how trivial and you’re down the road , throughout the whole company including management with company cars /pickups .
Saaamon:
Sometimes you have to scrape it abit here and there to get it in…
No you don’t! If you cant get it in without knocking it, the vehicle is too big, and should either be unloaded as close as possible, or transhipped onto a smaller vehicle!
Also, you may get it in with a minor scrape, but getting out could mean a whole different thing! Why risk it■■?
You do it because if you have the contract for delivering a manufacturers products you soon won’t if their customers aren’t having their goods where they want them because a driver’s worried about scratching the paintwork.
At the end of the day lorries are working vehicles doing a job. I’m happy to spend a reasonable amount of time and money a year respraying steps or putting a mudflap back on with repair washers. I don’t really want drivers, doing something like, constantly doing dry-steering shunts just to avoid pushing into a hedge a bit when most of the time it’ll cause no damage to the truck.
Has anything changed in his life in the last few months that’s causing him additional stress/grievance?
It doesn’t make it ok, but somebody driving a truck for 9 hours a day is more prone to having any ‘emotional weakness’ show up than somebody driving their car half an hour to work and back.