So here's my story. I'm a 23 year old man from Pennsylvania. I had been driving bus for the past year and a few months ago, I got my class A and began driving for CRST. I may be young, but I'm a very safety conscious driver, try hard to manage my fuel and speed (4.3% avg. idle) and run as hard as I can without being illegal or putting myself in danger of fatigue. Toward the end of my second month of employment, I was driving along state highway 204 in Savannah, GA when I snagged a low power line. From my understanding, and after talking to a friend of mine who works for the DOT, power lines (or any structure for that matter) are not to be lower than 14' or 14'6" depending on the state, if they cross STATE or FEDERAL highways. Anyway, after the police had arrived on the scene and cleared me to exit the truck, I realized that these lines had caught on my CB antenna. In other words, far too low to be legal. It was late at night when I was driving and I had no way to see or anticipate hitting them. I was not cited or fined by the police. They and the power company employees were very sympathetic to my situation and the officer wrote the most lenient report he could. I did not damage the truck. Unfortunately, CRST didn't see eye to eye and they terminated me upon arriving at their terminal for home time. Now that I've been applying to other companies, I've been getting turned away, not even because of my accident, but because I was fired from my last company. It seems to me CRST doesn't want drivers unless they're completely perfect without flaw. Has anyone had an experience like this. Have any insight? I need to find another job.

 

First read this: http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/n...port-info.html

Get a copy of your DAC so you know exactly what CRST has put in there about why you were fired. Just like a credit report you can challenge what is in there.

BOL to ya!

 

Yes, get a copy of your DAC and see what is on there....hopefully CRST is a DAC reporting company. You might be shocked with how things are listed there which, assuming you are applying to companies within your experience level, may be why you are being turned away.

A few things you can do to make sure that you are not being shot down for "lying" on your applications.

Make sure to list the accident.
Make sure to put you were terminated and the reason why.
Send in a copy of the police report with your application.

 

See what is in your DAC and if it is not right, take the police report and put in a dispute with DAC.

 

Above is very good advice. Get the Dac yourself and look at it.

The big 'stink' is the amount of money the Utility company probably charged CRST for repair. Despite You not being at fault. All too often the company settles fast-- too fast- and leaves their driver swinging in the breeze. And later said driver gets sued personally or ends up charged after the fact (upon review- like the state of Pa can do) i.e. no charges filed at scene but later you get a letter in the mail stating you HAD 15 days from the post marking of this letter to dispute these 'charges' etc.:eek:

Good Luck

 

who stops?

 

Uh yeah, I was thinking the same thing mike. :-) Question for the OP, do you know how tall your CB Antenna was at the time? Are you certain it was under 14 feet? Whomever owns the line you tore down isn't "supposed" to be charging whomever tore it down if the line was less than the minimum allowed by the Feds.

 

Heck, I didn't know CB antennas could do that anyway-- he must have one of those Stingers or custom aluminum jobs. are you sure your stacks didn't knock the line down? or the top of the trailer?



hey, just razing you.. I've been working on my photoshop skills- that took 30minutes.
Get you Dac and keep looking, plenty of drivers have topped trailers and done far worse than hit power lines-- which should have been higher than traffic passing underneath-- lucky you weren't injured or barbequed

 

I've seen some crazy things that has brought down an overhead line before. Some of them antenna's are big enough to bring one down. Guy near me has an antenna on a work van for his CB that is as thick as my pinky finger.

Keep that police report handy since it shows no fault on your part. Being that it was Crash n Roll Stunt Team, they prolly fired you because you didn't set the truck on fire and send it flipping down the road. Had you pulled that off you might have been given the honor of Top Wheelman.

 

I can almost guarantee that your dac simply lists ...Discharged and lists the incident as either non/pre non dot ...And it's the discharge that is keeping you unemployed...I had a clean MVR and a non dot parking lot preventable on my dac at 2yrs with werner I put into crete,knight and cfi b4 discharge and all were accepting me then the discharge ,and it took 2 months 2 get work...