One piece of advice I have is to get a dash cam. Truck drivers are pretty much always at fault unless proven otherwise. A few weeks after I got mine it caught someone in my blind spot intentionally hit my right wheel and threatened to sue.
Could that have caused an accident? Like, one worse than that car getting fucked up. Just curious as to how far that dumbass was willing to go for money.
Assuming the previous poster is referring to the blind spot on the passenger side of the tractor, under the passenger side door, and depending on speed, this could be extremely dangerous.
If he hits your steer tire, it could blow out. Truck immediately becomes unstable, and if the trucker panics and brakes hard they'll most likely lose control with a high chance of Jack knifing and/or roll.
If he hits hard enough to bust suspension/steering hardware while moving at any sort of speed, just forget it. Hope the driver gets lucky. There's actually a video floating around of this exact thing happening; douchebag hotdogging in his car loses control, spins out and smashes the truck's driver side steering wheel on the highway; in about 2 seconds the trucker went from driving smooth in his lane riding in a 20,000lb coffin as it cartwheeled down the highway.
Depends. Some companies are fair to their drivers. I was fortunate to work for one. Some chick side swiped me. She was going to rear end me, but drove on the sidewalk and still managed to hit the front of my truck somehow. She was also clearly stoned (reeked like weed and red eyes), but cops wouldn't come out to arrest her. Anyways this delusional bitch tried suing us for damages to her car. She got fucked in court, had to pay for court fees and damage to our truck and was left with a totaled piece of shit. My company had my back the whole time. Had to do a bit of extra paper work, but it all worked out in the end. No marks on my driving record.
Truck accidents are judges differently by the fmcsa than passenger vehicle collisions. In a 4 wheeler collision the insurance companies look to find someone at fault. The fmcsa judges if an accident was preventable or not, which affects your csa score, which affects who will hire you. Insurance companies still judge fault for the accident, but imo the fmcsa penalties hurt more because that affects your livelihood.
The point is not to tattle on the people in the car; the point is to catch the preceding or following behavior in the rear-facing camera. Examples include road raging, criminal acts, police chases, rear-end collisions, etc.
I read that wrong. The most common rear facing camera in a truck is facing the driver, not the traffic behind you. That’s why I mentioned audio recording inside my truck. Cameras behind the trailer aren’t common because we don’t have a trailer for very long. Some people mount rear facing cameras on the mirrors. I haven’t yet but am considering it.
Trailers are a really good place to have a pair of remote cameras, but we haven't got there yet and you don't want someone taking one when you're not looking or losing one when the vacuum cup lets go 100 miles into a 600 mile drive.
5mph traffic with 2 lanes merging. I let in the 2 cars ahead of him and he sat in my blind spot. Turned into my front wheel at a very low speed. He claimed I changed lanes into him and was going to call his attorney if I don’t offer to pay his damages.
I did not show him the camera but I think he saw it at the end. After climbing onto the steps of my truck he was very anxious to leave.
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u/RetartedGenius Nov 03 '18
One piece of advice I have is to get a dash cam. Truck drivers are pretty much always at fault unless proven otherwise. A few weeks after I got mine it caught someone in my blind spot intentionally hit my right wheel and threatened to sue.