REALLY.....?

Fixed that for you.

 

that WAS the trainer

 

A LOT of folks just weren't meant to drive.

 

These big McMega hauler training companies get what they pay for.
I remember one time, I noticed a CR England truck parked at the same place for over a week on my local route.
I didn't know if the driver was on vacation or what, so I called England to let them know just-in-case and to check if the driver was OK.
Guy picked up the phone and said, "Oh yeah, that truck was abandoned, thanks for letting us know where it is."
I asked "Is this a regular thing?"
He says "Let me put it this way: we've actually got a team of drivers that goes around the country collecting abandoned trucks."
Unbelievable!!!!

 

With quallcomm & they couldn't find their own truck?

 

In the mid 90's I found an England truck in Demming, New Mexico at that little truck stop west of town, The truck was sitting there idling with the drivers door hanging open and the loaded trailer doors open with the reefer shut off (load was ruined) I had seen the truck there a couple of days before when I went by headed for El Paso and I noticed it sitting there when I came back by so I stopped to "check it out". When I called the number on the back of the trailer and told them about it they had no idea where the truck was because apparently the obviously pissed off driver had disabled the Qualcomm before he left it there.

Stuff like that is one possible explanation for them not being able to find the truck.

 

These stories describing horrible drivers are just crazy! Why do people drive trucks knowing that they are horrible drivers? That would be like me wanting to fly airplanes because it's "in my blood" knowing that I'll probably make a horrible pilot. Now I would have to find a pilot licensing school!

 

Knowing you're a horrible driver would require a degree of self-awareness. I think if you park like that, you're a little short in that department.

 

I dont know about other companies, but CRE proved to me that they can't tell where you are, or transmit to you effectively unless there's power to your truck. In 2009, my wife and I delivered in upstate NY, and since we didn't have anything yet, we went to a small truckstop and crashed, with the truck off.

I got a call about 3 hours later - my DM asked me to turn on the key so he could send me a load. Weird. But explains why they don't know where their abandoned trucks are.

 

--no you turn the key so you can power up the key board so you can read the load
quallcom is live all the time---unless you unplug it or disconnect the wires
one wire is live all the time--battery voltage
another is keyed voltage
2 to ecand a gnd
that is all we used to install--the emergensy shutown and the rest --didnt need
so as long as you have battery voltage--they can tell where the truck is