Originally Posted by dle (Post 453605)

When I first saw it, I let off the accelerator - engine brake full on.

Applied moderate braking action.

Originally Posted by Kevin0915 (Post 453614)

I can see where you're coming from, however, it is preventable. And yes, all you who just know how much i love swift, or am pro-swift, am saying this not to side with the company, or bash a fellow swift driver....i'm saying this from an insurance standpoint.

This happen during the day or night?? If it happened during the day, then you were not looking far enough up ahead of you (more than half a mile)....you did not get the 'big picture'. you always have to keep your eyes moving.

Did it happen at night?? Then either one of two things happened (or maybe both)...you simply wernt paying attention (again, not getting the big picture around you) or you were driving ahead of your headlights. With high beams you should be able to see a football field ahead of you. Now going 55-60, you can get woed down fast enough to avoid a dear (or moose) standing in the road.

It has always been swifts policy that animal hits are preventable, this should be nothing new to you.

Originally Posted by dle (Post 453562)

I told the guy that from the point in time that I first saw the moose until impact I was continuously breaking and that 30 - 50 seconds elapsed. His response - that is sufficient time to come to a complete stop.

Originally Posted by dle (Post 453695)

Thanks Vance for giving me that guys name - he was able to point me in the right direction.


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It has been changed to a non-preventable.

Somehow in the system they had it coded that I hit a COW, not a MOOSE.

The person that I talked to said, that somehow that eventhough on the macro call i said moose it got coded as a cow.

So they are now in the process of changing it from preventable to non-preventable and that I left swift on my own and not terminated.

Originally Posted by Kevin0915 (Post 453704)

I've had several instances with deer. They either were just running into the woods from their jaunt across the road, or i saw them standing on the shoulder.

There was one load i had, it was a back-haul for Wal-Mart, and i was driving from I-29 (or whatever it is from Omaha to KC, and headed into the back country in Iowa toward Osceola, Iowa. I kid you not, at night, i had my headlights and driving lights on, and out of 60 seconds, i was watching the ditches for 50 seconds, looking for deer. And yes, you can keep the truck on the road and still look 20 degrees off to the left or right.

I saw 2-3 deer, and was able to miss them each time. Now granted, one just jumps out in front of you, you're not going to have any time to react...but i think it is a good guess to say that a deer moves a little quicker than a flippin MOOSE, yeah???

And yes, you dont veer for deer. You roll a truck because you swerved to miss an animal, you get termed.

Originally Posted by Malaki86 (Post 453706)

I hit a cow with my car when i was about 18yrs old. It wasn't a pretty sight but the farmer who owned it had to pay to fix my car.