Two comments.
First make sure you document on your pretrip VIR any damage. Cover yer yewknowhat. Just in case somebody gets their panties wadded up and start enforcing the rules, you are then covered. The last guy that didn't note the damage will most likely be on the hook.
Secondly, there isn't really a whole lot of incentive to report damage one does especially with the job on the line. When I first started with SAIA I drove one of the city tractors for 3 years and had only one scratch on the fender from some umarked rebar at a construction site. Had to start driving a tandem on the route after being shut down by DOT for being overweight. I checked the same tractor two months later and both back corners of the cab were caved in.
Methinks the yard jockeys were responsible as they had been doing this to a lot of the trucks trying to make fast turns to back trailers into the doors. Nobody ever seemed to know who drove the tractors at night.
Was wondering how many of yall see on a daily basis trucks damaged and nobody seems to have done it? And the shop seem to never fix it, or would I say fix it correctly. Here in jax we have 2 2006 model linehaul units that one has red duct tape over the entire right side fender where it was damaged and 
ty done. And another 2006 that the back half the fender next to the door behind front wheel drivers side that must have at least 10 rolls of clear box tape holding the fender on. And as always nobody knows who did it. Another 2005 that the left side fender is bent out and sticking straight out been that way for about 4 months. Just a mild observation.
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