suburban cab driver fired today and homeless today (want to get into trucking)

Keep guessing.

 

This is true brotherhood and truly being a decent American. The victim here is a HARDWORKING tax paying citizen who needs help from getting out from under his present circumstances.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Don't rule out Prime, they finance the CPAP machine.

 

5 people gave training related replies.

60 people pulled the OP’s chain.

The rest said funny stuff. (which I thank-you for)

The homeless mensa picked the 60 to reply to.

Good luck, I see nothing but success.

http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_23627974/long-beach-city-college-nets-federal-grant-veteran

 

What is there to guess? Money is the reason why we all work, unless you got handouts from your parents or other family members... Which makes you no better than those you bash for getting handouts from the Feds.

So I ask you..... Why are you against the idea of someone wanting to work their way out of a bad situation without taking handouts? What is so bad about a homeless person wanting to get off the street?

And to go back to your original post, the OP does have a interest in driving. If not, he would not have considered this as a career option. For once, it wouldn't hurt you if you viewed the world from beyond your nose.

 

You said you were guessing. I was trying to be encouraging to you. Keep guessing.

 

He isn't really interested in driving. He's looking for a place to sleep more comfortable than a park bench.

 

So what? That's his prerogative. He has to drive in order to keep that bed. He knows it and so do we.

 

I think somebody that made only $200 a week "working" 14 hours a day and is obese isn't that interested in driving.

 

One guy came in here because he got fired by his girlfriend's father when they broke up. One guy had his mom pass and wound up homeless, next thing he gets the bright idea to drive a truck. OP was living in a cab. He didn't say anything about bettering himself. He was asking about info for a new job where he could live in the vehicle. All of them were adults over 30.

I am all for a person that decides to pull himself out of a slump. We see these guys ever single day. I will meet these guys, root for them, encourage them, invite them to a restaurant (and they decline and say they are eating out of their truck), and I will pay for their meal. I will never deny someone a shower if they ask me.

99.9% of us will give another driver a shower if he asks, right? Then why is it that every time you go into a truckstop, you can smell a driver in a TV room? At every truckstop if you ask ANY cashier, or waitress if she smelled a driver before she could see him, odds are she has that very day. Even in rat holes like Loves and Pilots where they don't want you in there for more than 10 minutes, they have showers. Why does that driver smell so bad? Does he work harder than everyone else? Or is it a mental attitude? You sit there wondering if the guy is immune to his own stench. Is he blind to see that everyone else is gagging and holding their breath? No, he sees it. It's every day proof that quite a few people got CDLs not to better themselves, but so they can continue slacking.

Most of us are not that way. We go take a shower BEFORE we smell. Call it Preventive Maintenance. Don't maintain the truck and the DOT shuts you down. Don't maintain personal hygiene and you go around smelling like an open butt wound.

Guy walks into a restroom after not bathing for 9 weeks to use the facilities. Bleeders think, "Oh, maybe he's trying to better himself. Perhaps if I offer him a bar of soap...". I'm thinking, "Which way is downwind? This guy smells like he hitched a ride in the back of a cattle trailer." Stinky asks, "Is there a movie theater around?" I am going to tell the guy that he is sour and he should change his hygiene routine. Bleeders are going to tell me that I am wrong, and that this guy has every right to watch movies like everyone else. But it will be the bleeders that go to the movies, and complain to the management about the stench and how they're never going to this movie theatre again. Funny how that works out.

i think that everyone can agree that there is absolutely no reason why any driver should be walking around smelly, right? So why are there smelly drivers? Come on, bleeders, tell me why. Are they physically unable to bathe? Is it a mental condition? If a restaurant manager tells a driver that he cannot come into the restaurant until he bathes, is the restaurant manager being mean? "Oh that mean ol manager has never been down and out. He doesn't know what it's like. He should let Stinky come in and eat. He is depriving Stinky of nourishment!"

alot of us have been down and out, lived in slums, 3rd world poor. I was born and raised in a slum. Took a job for minimum wage as a laborer on a construction crew the same time as a guy name Joe. My first paycheck, I went to the flea market and bought used tools. Showed up to the job next Monday, and the foreman exclaimed, "You went and bought tools!" He showed me how to use them. Joe had to go unload trucks and stack lumber. Soon I was lead carpenter. Joe was still stacking lumber. Yeah, I know...it was unfair. Joe should have been given the same opportunity as me, right?

We are not given opportunities, we seize them. That implies quick action, right? Well, it's just that that makes a slacker a slacker. Instead of pouncing, a slacker waits for it to fall into his lap. Then he procrastinates...until he is in a bind and has to move. Why should I have empathy?

You show up at a place to load. There's another driver from your same company already there. You greet him and find out that he got there last night, but he was too late to load. You are both going to the same destination. Shipper pulls him in and loads him. The other driver wants to run with you. You get loaded. You're ready to go. The other driver is watching a movie and wants to finish the movie before he leaves. Well, there's not a big rush, you have 4 days to run a thousand miles. Then he wants to stop and eat. Then he needs to take a nap. Then he wants to eat. You cover 250 miles and he wants another nap. You cover 75 miles and he wants to stop in a casino. Now he wants to eat. As soon as he eats, he is tired again. Two days in and you've only covered 325 miles. Driver complains about the company because he only makes about $400 a week and the recruiter told him that he would make much more than that. Third day, you punch out 400 miles. Your buddy, the slacker is exhausted. He passes out for a full 12 hours, gets up and fiddlefarts around for another 4. Today is D DAY though. What are you going to do? Stick with Slacker or do what you have to do to make sure you deliver on time? I'll tell you what I would have done.

i would have punched out 700 miles the first day, delivered that load the 2nd day and been breathing down the neck of my dispatcher about the next load. And when the slackers get together, they would have just awful things to say about ol Six. But when they can ol Slacker for not being productive...and he can't live in the truck anymore, and he's homeless, destitute, with nowhere to go, I'm a mean ol person because I don't bleed. Did Slacker have opportunity to make changes BEFORE being terminated? Yes. See, if Slacker had only offed off once, and was late once, he wouldn't be Slacker. But to be Slacker, slacking is a way of life. Slacker is doing his thing...living his life.