Jb hunt “preventable accident”

It’s not on your MVD record, just your record with the J.B.

Ask the Safety Department if you can write an affidavit of what happened from your side of the story, and have it inserted into your employee file.

That way it’s documented that it’s questionable whose fault it is and you told your side of the story.

 

But you hit it. That's the bottom line, and the video shows you hit it, so its your word against theirs. It may have been a bunch of trucks there, but the customer caught you. You need to own this. Anyway, what you'll need to understand is that a company the size of JB Hunt is under a lot more obligation to protect their customers than their drivers. Drivers are a dime a dozen for them. Customers, not so much. I don't know what you expect JB to do in terms of "investigating it." They got a video. Investigation complete.

Anyway, I can't imagine that it will be on your MVR. Your record with JB is tarnished some, but so what? You'll need to move past this.
You didn't get fired as far as I can tell. Stop dwelling on this, and run some miles. Do better.

 

Beg them to fire you so you can go get a driving job with a real company.

 

I have a "JBH" story of my own, and how I dealt with it. Around 1990, Dropping a trailer at a rented dirt lot in El Paso, TX., off Lee Travino blvd. Lot was all dirt, but dry. Found a level spot, even put a couple of pieces of plywood under the feet that were laying around, cranked the trailer to the usual level, with the feet just barely touching the ground, so that when the next guy went under, he'd lift it just a smidge, to take the 'bind' out of the landing gear (all our trucks back then had the exact same 5th wheel height). Picked up the trailer I was getting, and headed back east. During the night, it RAINED, a fairly uncommon occurrence in, y'know, the Sonoran DESERT.
The next day, the driver came for my load, found the lot SOAKED, and, you guessed it, pretty much ALL the trailers there had sunk down, more on the landing gears, less so on the tires. He found he needed to crank the gear down about 6", so he started to, then suffered a heart attack. Luckily, the local driver was there, ambulance was called, he got to the hospital on time, and eventually made a full recovery. The safety department (in Arkansas..) was looking for a scapegoat to blame, contacted my dispatcher, who told me of the 'complaint'. She routed me to my home terminal (Syracuse, NY), and when I arrived, I was sat down with her, and the terminal manager.
They laid out the accusation against me; leaving a trailer 'dropped too low', causing the driver's heart attack. I pointed out that there was an unusually heavy rainfall AFTER I left, there were no boards to drop the feet on, and that, BTW, I couldn't be blamed for another driver's medical condition. They wanted me to sign a disciplinary report, and I refused. I asked them for a copy, so that I can show it to an attorney. They refused. So, they 'suspended' me for a month.
My next call was to the NY state Dep't of Labor, to file a complaint, and then to apply for unemployment, to at least register for the 'waiting week' before I could collect.
I got a call back 2 days later. They told me to come back. I told them "Only after I get a signed affidavit clearing me of all charges on the complaint, or else I was going to start a lawsuit. I had my affidavit 2 hours later when I arrived at the terminal, and even got a better truck. I ran across the guy who had the heart attack a few months later at the Little Rock terminal. He was talking about his ordeal with another driver at the other table. The guy was about 5'0", and maybe 95 lbs dripping wet...
I mentioned to him that I'd heard about the incident, since I knew the driver involved (true, I DO know myself...). Even he blamed the rain for the sinking of the nose gear, and he even told the safety department about it. "It wasn't his fault", he said, "and I TOLD them that, but I heard that he was going to be fired". I reassured him that the driver had NOT been fired, and in fact was still driving for them. "Oh, thank god. If you see him, tell him I'm sorry for all his trouble, but it was all on the safety guy up in Lowell, not me." I told him that I'd let him know next time I saw him.

 

I think everyone is going to overlook this fact that this does happen. I’d be wondering how many JB drivers have been dinged for this same stick at this same dock and how many checks JB wrote out to this company to keep fixing and putting this same stick in the way?

 

I delivered to a small grocery store and noticed the roof that covered the dock was damaged The damage looked old. The store owner came out and accused me of hitting the roof. Anyway, when I returned to the terminal I was told the store owner is charging $2000.00 for damages. Then I was told, don't worry about it because the store owner does that several times a month. The owner was told the company isn't paying any more damages and if he pulls that stunt again, he'll have to find another supplier.