Anyone else noticing the same trucking company keeps causing incidents at your depot?
I work out of a regional distribution hub and I swear I feel like I'm losing my mind. Over the past several months I've watched the same fleet — all the trucks are wrapped in the same color scheme — cause incident after incident in our shared lot.
We're talking:
- At least three separate backing accidents into parked equipment that I personally witnessed
- One driver clipped a loading dock corner so hard it shifted the concrete barrier
- Debris getting dumped (or just falling loose) from trailers as they pull out onto the main road
I've flagged it to our lot supervisor twice. He shrugged both times. One of the incidents actually grazed my personal truck that I'd parked in the designated employee area — left a scrape along the whole passenger side. When I tried to track down who was responsible, the fleet dispatcher gave me the total runaround. Suddenly nobody saw anything, nobody knew which driver was on which route.
I filed a report with my own insurance but I'm worried they're just going to try to bury it as a minor claim. The scrape looks cosmetic but there might be something going on with the door alignment too.
Has anyone dealt with getting compensation when the at-fault party is a commercial fleet instead of just a regular driver? Does the process work differently? Any pitfalls I should watch out for? Feeling pretty frustrated and would love to hear from people who've navigated something like this.