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Right after his box hit a bed bugger got stuck there and he had nothing hanging down like my husband did.
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I am talking about a major truck accident (my husband isn't the only one out there having them) between 2 trucks that set a major fire, killing several people. He was diverted and wasn't familiar with that road. As well, he only knocked off his lift box or whatever. The bed-bugger got stuck and many others prior to and after apparently had similar problems and all without seeing the situation.
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Sounds like an incident to me, one truck looses a portion of a box and another truck gets stuck. There would have to been some kind of traffic control.
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If the Officer at the Scene described the Incident as Non-Preventable I think he has a Pretty good case when He goes to the Safety officer of the Company he drives for.
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Whereas bmw said
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It wasn't even like a huge visible lump in the road or anything. Just weird grading. Anyway, now the company is saying the accident was preventable. My husband talked to a Georgia DOT training officer afterward and he said it was non preventable.
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Doesn?t mean there wasn?t a citation issued at the scene.
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Is it? How can my husband prove it? They want to put this on his record and suspend him for it.
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Never did specify
They.
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how and the world did you make the Leap to Traffic Citations when the Thread was about Scraping the Box going over railroad tracks when the Driver was Re-Routed?
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Some people have short memories:
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(d) [b]Disqualification for railroad-highway grade crossing offenses.]/b] Table 3 to ?383.51 contains a list of the offenses and the periods for which a driver must be disqualified, when the driver is operating a CMV at the time of the violation, as follows:
Table 3 to ?383.51
(6) The driver fails to negotiate a crossing because of insufficient undercarriage clearance.
No less than 60 days
No less than 120 days
No less than 1 year.
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The provided section applies to disqualification for railroad crossing incidents.
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MANY so-called "Preventables" aren't even worthy of a Ticket from the Police which this woman said her husband didn't even get.
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Seems to me the question was is this
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In Fact the Driver said the Police concerned it "Non-Preventable".
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No, she said a Georgia Training DOT officer said afterwards it was non-preventable. If the officer wasn?t there he could have made a comment based on insufficient facts.
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My husband talked to a Georgia DOT training officer afterward and he said it was non preventable.
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Believe me, sometime it is necessary to make folks stop talking, and ask a few pointed questions before providing an answer. Photographs taken by drivers at accident scenes fail to have measurements and other relevant data that?s necessary to make a good judgment call.
FYI, unless a truck is rear ended, there are very few exceptions where an accident is non-preventable. Defensive driving works wonders.
Be safe.