FedEx Freight | FORT MYERS, Fla. - FedEx Freight Hits A Power Pole line Catches Fire

I just love driving a semi through a neighborhood...What do you expect? Probably delivering destroyed blinds or flourescent light bulbs...set up by the same rep that keeps giving us the flatbed freight. We have no business attempting to deliver this stuff @ loading it. Now he'll be charged with a preventable. Code is to have the wires above 13'6 but with the heat and the AC's going, the wires sag and it becomes the driver's issue/fault.

It was probably 1359, he was about empty- causing his unit to be higher. Your fired, as is your truck.
 
Driver did not get any time off. I seen drivers doing less damage and getting 3 days off, how is that possible?

Used to be, and should be, that if a driver was on a city street, there was no foul. You can't know where every low power line is, and you're not expected to. City / State governments have rules to follow as well as drivers. One of them is that power and communication lines have to be 'X' feet off the ground. Driver did nothing wrong. Why should he get 3 days off?
 
I'm sure.you have heard of.the smith system before always be aware of your surrounding especially driving in property. Is not who you know but who you blow.
 
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