My old man owns his own transport company, runs interstate mostly. Has 9 local trucks on the road and 2 prime movers. Both the prime movers are new 3 months old, third was only 3 days old. Driver picked up a load of empty pallets (2o tonns worth) from a customer and headed out to deliver them. The ******** tipped the brand new truck over with someones eles trailer (Curtain sided container) in tow, $128,ooo worth. Layed it driver side down on the wrong side of the road and laned on the armco. He was told to strap the load but didn't, aslo had no gates in. Result is $8o,ooo damage to the new truck and wrote the skel off ($25,ooo) and looks like another $20-30,ooo damage to the container. He's been booked with neg driving and an insurcure load. Trailer isn't insured at all and looks like their going to wipe the truck because of the driving charges. Been paying stupid insurance rates for the past 12 years and never made a claim all because the driver was to lazy to strap it down.
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