Trucker to trucker advise

The part I linked to sets out minimum requirements. Employers, Southernpride included, are free to make their own requirements for prospective employees since they are private businesses. A company could require all their drivers to have a pilots license, experience in fast food, or unicycle experience, they're perfectly within their rights to do so.

Neither did I. I said employment history. Since you feel free to type in my direction like that, I have to ask about your signature-are you 100% Native American? This is a nation of foreigners, my ancestors didn't come over until the mid-1600s. Surely you must mean illegal aliens.

So real estate in Fla is a bad investment? CSA 2010 is nothing but a scoring system. If a driver has a bad score, it's because he has a history of tickets, accidents, or running un-safe equipment, and his poor score will make him less employable. If he's doing his job the way it ought to be done in the first place, CSA 2010 will have no negative impact on him.

 

They evidently are already applying scores to drivers, even though the program itself isn't in place nationwide yet. Carriers with offices in the test states can access the scores now.

 

Go Figure...I won't be lookin' for a job anyway so it won't have an effect on me personally.

 

Yeah, I hear 'ya. I think once they get it going and get the kinks worked out it's going to be a better system than safestat.

 

I can't disagree with taking bad drivers/companies off the road!
I Just don't think it will have anything other than a negative impact on driver's pay/rates!
By eliminating drivers from the ranks, They have to be replaced from other sources. CDL mills, Mexico, those new drivers will drive for less money than we do currently.

 

I would not drive for anything less than .50 per mile and $20 an hour for all work on line 4.. Bottom line.. If somehow my job dipped below that I would find something else to do..

 

Well they are and the government site is up and working I have a copy of mine and it took 30 seconds to get it of the net, it has a violation that I received in Arizona in the fall of 2007. My company is checking out all present drivers and new hires. I have talked to few other companies and they are getting the report on every driver. I don't care if it hasn't been implemented yet, the government has the companies scared into it and they know it is coming so they are getting started way ahead of time.

 

I hear McDonald's is hiring. You don't think other jobs have rules and regulations to go by and government regulations. Some business have a lot more then trucking, go and hire on at a refinery. I thought the same thing go find something else to do so I found something else and went to orientation. All the BS and work schedule, uniforms and safety equipment you will wear all the time, all this extra and continuous training, bathroom breaks, lunch time schedule that changed weekly, time cards, supervisor will be watching you, drug test if you cut your finger, probation if you screw up and then those #### cameras watching you. Then the pay and benefits wasn't all that great to put up with all this BS so some more government regs, bring them on. Keep your nose clean, equipment clean and in tip top shape and don't give them a reason to stop you like speeding and this 2010 will be nothing to worry about.

 

Laugh bro.. If my job did not pay mid .50's and mid 20's I would not work here any longer. Anyone who knows me on this board will vouch for what I'm getting at..