Rough First Day = $30,000 Damage

North side business heavily damaged as semi backs into overhang

INDIANAPOLIS,Ind. (June 13, 2015)–It was a rough first day on the job for a 22-year-old truck driver who backed his semi into the corner of a north side business Saturday.

Emergency crews were called to the 700 block of East 38th Street at 4:20 p.m.

A 22-year-old driver for US Xpress Enterprises was making a delivery to the Dollar Tree store.

The driver told police he misjudged the turn when he tried to back the truck in.

The trailer struck a building overhang causing an estimated $30,000 damage.

The Dollar Tree was evacuated as a precaution.  About 8 customers were inside the store,

No one was injured

Sorry, that was not backing in damage.... LOL That kind of damage only happens pulling out.

Sorry, that was not backing in damage.... LOL That kind of damage only happens pulling out.

Unless he was trying to blindside in. Which he clearly was. Look at the first pic. The way the trailer wall is crumpled forward shows that it was pushed outward from the rear, which wouldn't happen any other way than hitting the building going backwards.

Backing in blind side, there is no damage to the doors. Your trailer is not going to move right and jump into the building when blind side backing. If you look at the eaves on all photos, the first and second photo the siding is coming out towards the front of the truck. In the last photo there is no siding coming out towards the back of the trailer. Hence, he was moving forward and not backing when he did this.

The initial hit could have been done while backing up, however the driver may have thought it could be saved by pulling forward. It would make sense for someone who is new to do something like that since he would have panicked, had he stopped at first noticing that it was happening it could have lessen the damage (in my opinion of course). I could be wrong on what happened but to me this seems like the most possible reason, since some of the roof of the building is going forward and the big dent in the trailer is far too forward.

Driving forward.

Driver pulled out, turns right. Tandems track into the turn. As the front end goes right, the right side hits the corner of the building, making the right side of the trailer collapse in. That also pulls the eaves panel out - that diagonal thing in the middle photo.

In the last photo (rear view), the building post is wedged in front of the tandems.

His first day and last day were the same day.

Truck drivers will argue over anything

Truck drivers will argue over anything

I think they're just trying to solve the mystery of how it happened.

By looks of damages on trailer/building looks like a drive away hit , Trailer might be a "total" loss, so $30k seems wee bit low considering contractors won't be cheap for building repair alone! By position of the trailer tandems , unless he panic'd turned more and pulled forward, creating more damages?? hmmmm interesting, but sucks to be him!