Fired by safety have 6 months of experience

Well they are hiring at greyhound , they wont fire anyone i think . I saw where a driver killed 3 injured idk 10-15 after multiple speeding tickets of like 70-77 mph in a 55 and before those had 2 preventable incidents one with injurys . Think ill hitchhike b4 taking a greyhound.

 

Back in the day people could be expected to stay in their lane, AND THEN SMARTPHONES SHOWED UP and people routinely swerve out of their lane. Plus the volume of traffic today is multiples of what it used to be.

The shoulder is the most dangerous place to park. Any crash is likely to have a fatality because of the difference in speed of vehicles.

The driver that caused the crash isn't in the thread to be yelled at.

 

Today, Greyhound exists mostly for 3 different groups:
1) People recently released from prison heading home on a free pass.
2) People afraid of flying, but too poor to drive or take Amtrak.
3) People who either will or have freaked-out on airplanes, some who are on the no-fly list.
(and, a small sub-group, people carrying either narcotics or illegal weapons..)
As bad as Spirit, Frontier and/or Southwest are, they are light-years better than Greyhound, faster, and they often cost about the same.

 

Ok...that's fine. Fair enough. I just don't find it all that productive to yell at the OP. I'm sure he knows at this point in the thread that in the future he will have to choose a better stopping place.

 

We can’t put all the blame on the OP but it truly was bad timing or bad luck. He stopped on shoulder because he thought parked regen was required. He probably could have just driven truck and it would do regen going down the road. Then other driver being sleepy and hitting him on shoulder. You would think sleepy driver would get all the blame.

When I was training the mega company told us how a driver stopped on shoulder to take jacket off. He just set his brakes and drunk driver runs into back of trailer. The trucking company was part responsible for the accident. Because if the trucking company was not there the accident would not have happened.

If the trucking companies insurance has a big claim they will automatically just fire the driver because they think it too big of risk to take again or they just need someone to blame and the driver will be the first one they blame. They won’t admit to poor training because then they will responsible for the claim then.

 

When i started there, it would take an act of congress to get fired from there. I had two separate incidents my rookie year there. One in Florida, another in Arizona. I called them and let them know what happened, it's like they heard nothing i told them. They hit me up for the 500 follar deductible both times. It's whatever. I caused damage so I dealt with it. I didn't miss it because they ran me so well. Just looking at some.of these posts about Western Express as of late is making me draw that conclusion. I've seen some guys that have had hiccups in the industry and Western turned them down. What OP went through, years back they would have shrugged that off. Times change I guess. If I'm speculating, I'd imagine they'd pay more once they got rid of the dead weight there.

 

Drivers now are a level of bad not imagined 10 years ago.

 

Its pretty much everything , buy a new home , they are not anywhere close to square , the roof very well might leak , too many plugs on a 20amp circuit and under sized wire , jack leg plumbers throwing in crap with back fall and fittings backward . I could go on .

 

Sorry Australia. It is funny though.

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