Mr Rancid, hats off to you for being hands on. My kind of driver. I get the feeling however, that your talents will be wasted at Werner. Are you sure you want to be employed there? A small fleet owner would looooooooooooove to have a hand like you in one of his rigs. Don't let Weiner wast your talents.
Werner is just to get the year in and open doors, see where we go from there. maybe to Raven or whatever. see whats what in a year. hell maybe do the ice road.
Say there, Mr. 'Letsum1else' Gitrdun. If you're going to slam the man's truck, at least know what it is! That's no shaker in his sigpic. And 'all your years'? All FOUR OF THEM? SMH I usually don't throw around tags on here, but you have "New Breed" tattooed all over you. To the OP: Many large carriers don't want you to touch their trucks, because too many idiots in the past have screwed things up by half-assing things. If you go to work for one of them, don't get caught by another driver; dime's seem to fall all too often. Do what you have to so you can get rolling, leave the rest to the carrier. My best advice? Stay away from the megas, you'll never be happy and always feel unappreciated. If you can walk into the place you work and no one knows you by sight? You need a different place to work. Good luck!
I guess we have a different definition on getting hurt, if it's not going to put my driving career in jeapordy and it's not a serious health concern my butt is in that seat and I ain't going to the doctor for it. Now then seeing as how I don't sit there and pound the nicely groomed interstates all the time like you do naturally things are going to break, I run my truck at least 5x harder than yours will ever be run, and what you consider grossed out I consider child's play. I'll throw that pete up against whatever you drive, even with a dropped liner only running on 5 cylinders it'll out run and out pull what you've got hooked to your trailer. Probably got 2x the miles yours does too. Neither here nor there enjoy working for your great company that runs the best of the best for equipment. Yea no kidding, if he wanted to run hard and haul cattle I'd throw him in a truck with no EXP and train him. If a guy's willing to work his butt off like that that's the kind of person I want driving for me. I will never ask a driver to put himself in a situation he's uncomfortable with when it comes to limping or fixing a truck, but I'm not about to call road service to something that a driver should be able to fix in 15 minutes if he's got a brain in his head and the tools with him to do the job. I don't have a problem paying the driver by the hour to do the job either. I reward people for hard work and going above and beyond.
Got that right REanc. Let me guess your a O/O wanna be. Have truck but leased on to a company cause your to lazy to do own books yourself.
Sure you would. Cause your just like corporate america trying to get one person to do several jobs so you don't have to pay more people. Why is it expected a driver do more than drive? No other profession expected to do another job not within their duties.
thanks Hammer. yea, not planning to do clutches,turbo's etc. ( though i have in the Army, and have the trashed shoulder to show for it ) but if ya know your truck, ya know when #### ain't right.
I guess you either didn't read the first post or you have piss poor reading comprehension skills. Might wanna leave the adult advice to those with experience.
