Rough First Day = $30,000 Damage

Maybe it was Patrick on his first day at his new job? If that's the case, this must not have been his fault—the company must have messed something up.

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!

I am thinking that he panicked, but he is the only one that knows what really happened. Still sucks to be him though.

His first day and last day were the same day.

in a situation like this what usually happens to to the employee. I assume he loses his job but will he have an ability to get hired on somewhere else

Looks to me like it was done pulling forward, the crease up high on the trailer proves that. It could be that he did it moving forward while trying to back up to the delivery dock, a pull up or 7 is common for a new driver.

Maybe it was Patrick on his first day at his new job? If that's the case, this must not have been his fault—the company must have messed something up.

We had a recruiter come in from US Xpress the other day at my CDL school. He was talking about a guy who applied with them who had gone through eight trucking jobs in two years....

Maybe it was Patrick on his first day at his new job? If that's the case, this must not have been his fault—the company must have messed something up.

We had a recruiter come in from US Xpress the other day at my CDL school. He was talking about a guy who applied with them who had gone through eight trucking jobs in two years....

Sounds like The Persian Conversion. Lol

Poor *******, kicking his lunchpale home as he should be.

And I thought I had a rough last week....

Maybe it was Patrick on his first day at his new job? If that's the case, this must not have been his fault—the company must have messed something up.

We had a recruiter come in from US Xpress the other day at my CDL school. He was talking about a guy who applied with them who had gone through eight trucking jobs in two years....

Sounds like The Persian Conversion. Lol

Hahaaaaaa, I see what you did there!

Okay, let's examine the evidence here. The (soon to be former) driver states, to the press yet, that he hit the building going backward. If that wasn't the case, why would he say it was, especially knowing his words were going to end up in print? He's already in deep enough manure, why would he lie, especially one that could be almost immediately proven to be a lie? How could it be proven so? Easy. All the company has to do is verify whether he made delivery at that location or not. If he had, and claimed he hit the building while backing up to deliver, not only is he busted for destroying both a trailer and a building, but now he's falsifying an accident report on top of it. Sense-this makes none.

Now, return to the first pic of the trailer. The wall of the trailer is bowed both inward and outward. If it had been a pulling away strike in forward motion, the wall of the trailer would only have been caved in beginning from where the trailer first struck the building. For it to also be bowed outward, it would have to have been pushed forward from behind. Bear in mind those pictures are also being taken after the rescue crews arrived on scene and began trying to free the trailer and shore up the building to prevent collapse, so debris on the ground is not a reliable indicator of direction of travel.

The most likely and logical scenario is exactly what the poor kid said: he was trying to back in and misjudged the angle. He did two major wrongs here, tried to blindside in and didn't GOAL. Had he taken his time, and gotten out to double, triple, or even quadruple check his angle and clearances, he might still have a job this morning, even with blindsiding in.

The moral of the story here is always always ALWAYS GOAL, even if you think you're sure you have room.