4 Preventables, HELP!

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Lokioe, Sep 11, 2019.

  1. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    It seems like a lot of younger people does this, I will never be able to wrap my head around the reasons for it.
    Life is hard enough as it is, it must be especially hard to wait till you are in your 20's to start it.
     
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  3. HillbillyDeluxeTruck

    HillbillyDeluxeTruck Road Train Member

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    So none of them caused a truck or trailer to be taken in for any repairs. I'll be honest, find a smaller company that doesn't look at that stupid ##### DAC and only at your actual MVR. You might end up with a 1099 job, so be prepared to hold some $ out for taxes, but if you can put in a solid year of no major screw ups, you'll be able to find a really solid co to run for. Any ####ty mega carrier is gonna look at your DAC and see those 3 or 4 "preventables" and act like idiots about them.
     
  4. WesternPlains

    WesternPlains Road Train Member

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    Now you want him to move up to preventables with ships? :laughing-guffaw:
     
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  5. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    I did one of those many years ago.
    Something was different about the drop, and I ended up not following my usual routine.
    I forgot to disconnect the lines before I pulled forward.

    There was a second time, too.
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    And yes, they were preventable - because I should have been more attentive to what I was doing.

    I also got stuck in the mud and had to have the truck dragged out with a tow truck.
    Also a preventable, because I SHOULD have been more careful with that dirt lot that 'everyone' turned around in to get lined up to that dock. It rained hard the night before. Luckily there was no damage to the truck.
    And, there was a second time for that too - when I was bobtail at my daughters house in CA.
    I called and paid for the tows each time, just so I would not have that on my record with the company.


    Little things like that can happen.
    If you can afford to pay for them at the time it will not go against you, because the company will never know.
     
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  6. dunchues

    dunchues Medium Load Member

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    Sensible idea that
     
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  7. Lokioe

    Lokioe Bobtail Member

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    Unfortunately i found that passion after being ejected from the trucking world. Working these 9-5s i feel so down in dumps. I wake up and think “#### i gotta go to work” when i was driving i never had any of that. I woke up ready to face the day everyday! Some people might say “oh you just miss the money” no. Up until i started trucking i was bubble boy. Never left the house except to work. And everything was done for me. My decisions werent even mine. This trucking thing was my own decision. I passed all my tests. I i found my own school even started my own credit when i took out my first loan. I realized a little too late just how much i really miss being independent.
     
  8. Lokioe

    Lokioe Bobtail Member

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    Ive pulled my mvr for florida and there aint jack #### on it!
     
  9. Ubu

    Ubu Road Train Member

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    Those types of incidents (privet property with no tickets) will never go on anyone's MVR but they are part of your employment history.
     
  10. starmac

    starmac Road Train Member

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    With a clean mvr, just start pounding doors for smaller companies, somebody will put you in a truck.
     
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  11. Lokioe

    Lokioe Bobtail Member

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    I never really had much of a chance. While i dont blame them for what happened during my time trucking because those were faults of mine, my parents quickly dashed away anything i thought would benefit me or if i tried to do something so i could learn said thing then instead of watching me fail they would do said thing without showing or teaching me. My parents only showed me how to do things that would not really benefit me but benefit the household. They both hold respectable jobs with respectable wages and are very successful in those jobs but they are of the mindset that if it doesnt benefit the house then it doesnt make sense. If something makes sense to me and i understand it beneficial to me but it doesnt make sense to them or benefits the house then they do whatever it is they can to make me not do what im trying to do. Another example. Im trying to move out. Dont have the funds but i have the means. I understand them for getting on me that i dont have the cash but they pull out the “look at us what if something happens and we get injured? We’re gonna someone to support us so you need to understand that you CAN’T leave” words directly from their mouths...

    When i started trucking it wasnt for money it wasnt for anything people wanted related to the job. As much as it pains me and i love them both, it was to get away from them.

    It doesn't go down like this everyday but when it does, #### hits the fan. Got in to argument the other day about a job im having trouble with and immediately she pops off yelling at me “are you autistic, are you retarded, you must be, you #### everything up” sorry, kinda went on a tangent there. But thats what i have to deal with. When im doin well they have nothing to say. When i have the slightest bit of trouble with anything, oh joy
     
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