Entries for July 2009 - Truckers' Trucking Forum

swift

Posted 07.19.2009 at 02.17 PM by sidereal

swift is taking money away from their drivers and not telling them, i am making 1 cent less this summer than i did at the beginning of the year

sidereal

Four-Wheeler (New Member)

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Well after spending a week in Van Buren I finally got my second training week underway. Picked up by Carl, a million mile member and veteran of USA since 1988. WOW!! Its not very often a company driver spends 22 years with the same company in my opinion.. So he has a dedicated route from Okla. City to Ohio and back. Yeah its a great route as his student does most of the driving and he gets all the miles. So his week of 2 trips gets approx. 3400 miles and his week of 3 gets him 5100 miles. Yeah I'd...

fd720

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It's not easy saying no to returning to life on the road...

Posted 07.17.2009 at 06.33 PM by ghostchild

Hi...well the first interview went well...the second interview never happened...It just disolved...maybe when the boss came back...he had different plans...but they handled it poorely...very poorely....so I'm still searching...
It's not easy...at this stage your moral can really start to take a hit...and you can start to loose motivation....
And in the back of my mind...I keep seeing trucks...big trucks...over...

ghostchild

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Trucking, Las Vegas, and more Trucking

Posted 07.16.2009 at 08.52 PM by Biscuit75

So it's been a few weeks since I posted. But it's been a fun few weeks. I ended up getting up to Philly with a load to set me up to get home for my Vegas trip. I was very impressed when I was put on a 3-way call with the CSR and my fleet manager in order to decide what we wanted to take in order to get home. The option we chose got me home 2 days early, but the CSR said "I would rather get you home early and give you an extra couple days instead of risking it and something happening and you...

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Driver Separation

Posted 07.15.2009 at 10.13 PM by janskitty

Driver Separation Form - can't import - will email to anyone wishing to see copy of original.
0 Service Failures

Reason for Separation - "Hygiene of truck inside" "Failure to maintain equipment per JCT contract"
Driver Manager Comment - "Janis has been having with her truck""Runs hard when all is ok""The inside of her truck is not acceptable"
This form was signed by Steve Melton, whose name was crossed out and John...

janskitty

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Not sure what to do........

Posted 07.15.2009 at 01.20 PM by 315mike99

Hi. Im new to the trucking industry...i always wanted to drive a truck and i finally went to National Tractor Trailer school in liverpool, NY graduated in march and im still looking for a job. Most trucking companies tell me because of my licence they can't hire me. I have 3 suspensions in the last 3 years and i got about a year and a half for them to come off. I never knew it was going to be this hard to find something. Im just not sure what to do? I got a no front plate ticket, i plead guilty...

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Update

Posted 07.13.2009 at 10.15 AM by Kinghunter

I passed my combination test today and found out I will be getting a hotel room for my training. So I have passed my air brakes test and combination test. All that is left is general knowledge test. I am anxious to learn as much as I can but I want to do it the right way.

So that is it for now. Till then, see you later.

Hunter