Said i'd never do this......

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  1. DickJones

    DickJones Road Train Member

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    this driver had been solo for a couple weeks, and this was a couple weeks ago. my first student finished last week.....nice try
     
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  3. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    sooo did you show him what a serpentine belt is dick?---or did he show you instead?
     
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  4. bluebonn

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    This is exactly what made me think about quitting twice already. When you have a student on the truck you should be required to park somewhere where the student has access to bathrooms.

    There is no reason why I should have to pee in my 20oz coke bottle. When I am on my own yes it makes more sense to park at the shipper or receiver because if I have to go to the bathroom I can leave and find a place or choose to use the bottle.

    A student will have no choice!!! I am going back on my mentors truck today and some things are going to change.

    I will not pee in any more bottles and I expect to eat by 7PM. After the way I have been treated the past four weeks this mentor can kiss my ### if he does not like what I am doing.

    I will stop the truck when I feel the need to do so. No more going six days without a shower and two weeks without any clean clothes.

    I have had it with this guy and I will not let him destroy my chances of going solo.

    I can see exactly why people quit!!
     
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  5. Rug_Trucker

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    A laundry jug is nice! I use it when I am at a shipper that won't let you use the rest room. I dribble a little Ajax orange scented dish soap in there when it is empty. No smell. I find a grassy area where the dogs pee or take it in when I shower and dump it down the toilet. People think you are doing laundry.

    For #2 emergencies a rectangular trash can and a plastic bag.

    BTW was at a Loves yesterday. If you pee at the pumps? You are on video. :biggrin_25523:
     
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  6. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    when you are driving the truck--you are in charge--if you want to stop and eat or do whatever--then do it--there isnt anyway he should be denying you this--it isnt an option
     
  7. DickJones

    DickJones Road Train Member

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    Best of luck. But if it were me....i'd not get back on that truck. If it were my truck, and you jump in saying "this is how things are going to go"....the next thing you'd be doing is picking up your shatner off the ground, and then eating my dust as i pulled out of the terminal.

    Now granted, i wouldnt leave my DOG in the truck for 3-4 days and only saying 'hi' to her once a day to eat. But think of the mentor's truck as their house. And that you are a guest of that house. Would you go over to your friends house for the super bowl, and go down into the 'man cave' and re-decorate? move the TV from one corner to the other, because you happen to like it that way?? Would you just use the bathroom for a 10-200 without being polite and asking??? Would you park on their front lawn 5 ft from the front door because its easier for you to walk from your car to the house??

    If you were at a house party, and you felt uncomfortable, or just felt out of place, would you stick around, or just quietly excuse yourself??

    If you get back on the truck, and things dont change, and you end up getting back off it, p!zzed as heII, dont come back on here cryin' about it.
     
  8. Hamshoe

    Hamshoe Medium Load Member

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    Just tell dude that he is stressing you out and if he can't be more understanding of your needs then maybe your gonna have to ask to be assigned a new mentor.
     
  9. DickJones

    DickJones Road Train Member

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    tell him that you need to be treated better than a dog. Tell him that if you're going to sit at his house for more than 2 days, he needs to put you up in a hotel. And also advise him this is swift policy regardless. Make sure he doesnt ask for a company advance for a hotel, get it, then just pocket the $$ and generate some bogus receipt and say you were in a hotel.

    ask him how he'd feel being cooped up in a cage for 4 days with nothing to do, and only able to use the bushes for a toilet??

    seriously, if it were me, it wouldn't have gone that far.....besides....if it DID....i sure as F wouldn't be getting back on the truck.
     
  10. tdcanterbury67

    tdcanterbury67 Light Load Member

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    blueboon i was just out with a guy from prime i was out for 4 weeks and that s.o.b was the same way and i did quit and i tried to talk to him and i almost smoked his ### a couple of times on the road he really pissed me off and now i anit going to be a truck driver any more after seeing how they do their student i know that i should have stayed but i know a couple of guys their that train and i am going to call them and see if they can help me out because i really want to drive over the road i was so mad that i couldnt go back because i know that i would have done something to his ### out their :biggrin_2551::biggrin_2554::biggrin_25510::yes2557::biggrin_2551::biggrin_2551:
     
  11. DickJones

    DickJones Road Train Member

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    maybe you should learn how to use punctuation before learning to drive a truck. besides, if you quit...you quit. you say in one sentence "i aint goin' to be no truck driver"....then you say, "i wonder if they cna help me out"......think you had better sit down with you and yourself and do some serious talkin'.
     
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