Handing In My CDL

Aussie,

Sorry you had to make such a tough choice BUT thank you for doing it, your right about luck and your choice might have saved you or someone else terrible greif.

Maybe you can find something to keep you happy back in the horse world?...I used to have a "wind drinker", loved him to death. I hope not having the stress of driving will help you feel better, and please dont leave, everyone is welcome here.

 

You can still stay in the industry and not drive on the road. Yard jockey, load supervisor, dispatch, and other jobs. You may be making a wise decision by not being out there on the road driving, but the industry needs people that have been out there to give the powers that be in some of the terminals a fresh opinion on how things ought to be run.

 

Aussie, unless your state asks for it you do not need to turn in your CDL. I can no longer drive due to diabetes and a few diabetes caused heart attacks. I am done, but I still carry my CDL and will not turn it back in. It is mine, I earned it and payed for it.

I was one of the first people in the country to get one back in 1990. My chaufers was do to expire at that time. The examiner had never given an examination and asked if I'd show him how to do the pretrip. I felt pretty good about that and I guess I still do.

Don't give it up, your health may improve in the future and you'll have it ready to go.

I was down to the drivers license bureau a month a go and a guy was turning his in because he did not drive anymore and he didn't want to pay the extra to keep it. It is only a few bucks and I couldn't belieev he was doing that.

 

yeah man, don't turn in your license, its still yours for driving your 4 wheeler around. when it comes time to renew, just don't get the haz-mat/finger-printing B.S. you would still need a drivers license, and you earned your current one (at whatever cost too) so don't give it up, plus its a very good ID card as well.

you can still do other jobs (i would presume) like yardman (like i'm doing now), or loading dock, supervisory, or dispatch, or even safety...........

so your (and all of us) options are still there.....

don't leave the boards either, as i'll have to come over there and kick yer ### if you do.............

 

AUSSIE.....I know this must be a really hard thing for you to have to do.
But...Never fear, we are here for you and will certainly welcome your posts and your company.

 

hey Aussie, i have been saying for about a couple of weeks now that i now work as a yardman for Ryder at one of their contract customers. i told also that i get paid an hourly wage, and delivery pay ($28.00) for any time i bring a loaded trailer from the main building to the warehouse, a mere 7(?) miles away. i also get mileage pay (34¢ per mile) EACH AND EVERY TIME my tractor goes out into the road...........empty or loaded.............( and that warehouse run is only about 30 minutes total time, and an easy $28.00/ & mileage to take...!!)

i also get time & a half for anything over 8 hours per day.

with all of these, i make just a tad under my former job, and work way less hours than ever before. about 45-48 hours per week as compared to about 50-60 hours, and NO TRAFFIC to deal with, 5 days a week............

seriously, think/consider yardman's work.............you might be outside in the elements, but that's for only a few minutes at a time...........

i think frito-lay is teamsters too.................(at least up here it is)