Trainer started running illegal

It's my understanding from his previous posts and the other threads he has recently started that he has jumped ship and is starting at another company.

 

the only group of people that see a "trainee/trainer" is the company. the rest of the world looks at a "trainee" and sees a truck driver. that's the way the law looks at it. next time you're asked a question at a weigh station, try the "I don't know, I'm just a trainee...." excuse and see what kind of response you get. what if you were the passenger in a car and the driver was drunk? you don't think the law would give you any legal responsibility to stop the driver? but if the passenger in a CMV isn't responsible for anything, why would there be a fine or community service? I sure wouldn't want to be the test case.

 

I agree with REDD and Fried Tater...This guy needs to go back to work at Burger King or wherever he came from. He'll be gone in a couple of months anyway 'cause he's OBVIOUSLY NOT CUT OUT FOR TRUCKING I like to run legal and pretty much always do but this guy's in for a rude awakening when his DM or FM or whatever tells him that it HAS TO GET THERE ASAP NO MATTER WHAT! and then what? Is he gonna call daddy and snivel that the boss was mean to him? And now he wants to come home and SUE THE B**TARDS!

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD LITTLE MAN...GROW A PAIR!

 

Actually, any dispatcher that tells me that has alot to learn. I am the boss of this truck. It is my life, my license, my jail time at risk. I will tell them that.

You want to run illegal at their request, fine. Do not expect others to be so intimidated.

Schools are teaching these students when not through company schools to stand firm on illegal running.

 

Say what? That doesn't read right.

 

Probably right.

What is meant, is that schools that are not part of the company tend to teach not running illegal stronger than the others.

 

I think it is Werner if I am not mistaken.

 

if you can't stand up to dispatchers who demand that you break the law, then maybe YOU'RE the one who needs to grow a pair. both trucking companies I worked for never told me to break the law to get a load delivered. they kind of danced around it a few times, but after I let them know (in a firm but courteous manner) that I don't play that, they didn't try it any more.

I was going to work for this one company, driver a shiny new Volvo (only 10 trucks in the company.) after I delivered my first load and picked up my backhaul, I called them to check in. I told them I wouldn't be able to deliver early in the morning like they wanted because I didn't have the hours. they told me I could probably just keep rolling because I wouldn't have any more weigh stations. I guess they wanted me to work 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. I worked for them for a total of 3 days. they were also trying to pull the 1099 income tax evasion scam. this company is no longer in business.

if you want to occasionally run illegal because it makes you feel like a big man.....roll the dice and take your chances. it only takes one slip up to ruin your career and possibly your life. by the way, as embarrassing as the pay now is in trucking, homeboy would probably be better off at burger king as you suggested.

 

Yeah really, Chief.....talk about "blame the victim".

 

I think the guy's a sissy! I don't however think that running illegal is a good idea. The guys a trainee and MOST TRAINERS THESE DAYS ARE HUMAN GARBAGE!! So he either sucks it up and gets through his training and then does it his way after he's solo or he snivels and whines and gets canned and is virtually unhireable from that point on. I don't think the guy will last anyway 'cause he's a whiner and it is obvious that he's expecting the word to kiss his "A". By the time you reach your 29th birthday you ought to be enough of a man to handle your own business and not run crying to daddy when things don't work out for you!