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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 93735" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I'm really surprised that this hasn't bit UPS in the butt bigtime. What I mean is it will only take some enterprising lawyer who learns or already understands the UPS method concerning accidents and then sues UPS on behalf of a client that the police charged as at fault. In civil suits, what the police say doesn't always hold the weight that you think it would but what would happen if some lawyer via lawsuit used the discovery process to obtain internal UPS documents form both UPS and the IBT and then show that to a jury? Juries can do funny things these days so I do believe at some point if it hasn't happened already that this process the the company uses will be turned against them. </p><p> </p><p>It's admiral on the one hand to hold to such a high standard but at the same time I do believe it's loaded with abuse. I have seen accidents where the they were declared avoidable and for the life of me couldn't see how. My neighbor who at one time was a severe/fatality traffic investigator for a local police jurisdiction told me of one UPS accident that he heard of in his area (no injuries so he wasn't directly involved) where the police ruled the other party clearly at fault but then heard UPS held the UPS driver responsible internally. He told me that they discussed the accident in detail just to make sure they didn't miss anything and as a training type of exercise. They came to the ultimate cause of the wreck and blamed the customer and UPS itself as had they not sent that driver there with the package in the first place the accident would have never occurred. In their minds the only thing the driver could have done to avoid the wreck was lay out of work that day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 93735, member: 2189"] I'm really surprised that this hasn't bit UPS in the butt bigtime. What I mean is it will only take some enterprising lawyer who learns or already understands the UPS method concerning accidents and then sues UPS on behalf of a client that the police charged as at fault. In civil suits, what the police say doesn't always hold the weight that you think it would but what would happen if some lawyer via lawsuit used the discovery process to obtain internal UPS documents form both UPS and the IBT and then show that to a jury? Juries can do funny things these days so I do believe at some point if it hasn't happened already that this process the the company uses will be turned against them. It's admiral on the one hand to hold to such a high standard but at the same time I do believe it's loaded with abuse. I have seen accidents where the they were declared avoidable and for the life of me couldn't see how. My neighbor who at one time was a severe/fatality traffic investigator for a local police jurisdiction told me of one UPS accident that he heard of in his area (no injuries so he wasn't directly involved) where the police ruled the other party clearly at fault but then heard UPS held the UPS driver responsible internally. He told me that they discussed the accident in detail just to make sure they didn't miss anything and as a training type of exercise. They came to the ultimate cause of the wreck and blamed the customer and UPS itself as had they not sent that driver there with the package in the first place the accident would have never occurred. In their minds the only thing the driver could have done to avoid the wreck was lay out of work that day. [/QUOTE]
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