And the cost of the skirt?
Someone costs me 300-600 $ isnt exactly "no big deal" either ESPECIALLY when its their stupidity that did it. myself included
Swift manages to do it again..
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those guys get paid from the instant the call comes in, to the time they get back..
it can easily be well over $1,000, then an accident charged to the driver, since a wrecker was called out.
better to have an incident on ones record, rather than an accident.Bud A., nredfor88 and QuietStorm Thank this. -
I love me some Ron Pratt. Lol!
I like to see what it’s like in my family’s “old country” -
I dont know though, lets play devils advocate as you guys want to, assume youre the guy in charge of telling the driver what to do. Do you trust the driver not to mess up WORSE and not tear up anything more than the skirt at this point?Blue jeans, Bud A. and Gearjammin' Penguin Thank this. -
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simple for an o/o, not ever a company driver.
i think that it tells a lot about a driver when he can't negotiate a parking lot, that he has to avoid a part of the country.
any driver worth his salt, can thread his rig into the docks, no matter the size of that equipment.Blue jeans, Roberts450, Gearjammin' Penguin and 1 other person Thank this. -
Theres essentially 2 conversations going here @buddyd157 1 is the thread title, the other was god prefers deisels asking about buying and driving a longer wheelbase truck, gpd owns their truck and has his own authority, i imagine itll be pretty easy for him to not forcibly dispatch himself...God prefers Diesels Thanks this. -
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"i think that it tells a lot about a driver when he can't negotiate a parking lot, that he has to avoid a part of the country.
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back when i started, JB Hunt, Schneider, Munson, and a few others, now out of business, took in student drivers. back in my day, we had NO cell phones, and NO GPS.
we had to read maps. we had to stop at pay phones, or at the truck stops, they had a room, that was the "phone room", with dozens of pay phones. back then, you had to have a "long distance calling card", and dial like 4,000 numbers, on the card, THEN dial the number you wanted to call.
and if you got a busy signal...??
good luck, you're doing it all over again.
we were taught how to respect the customers. the companies that hired you frowned on you and almost fired you on the spot for having an "attitude problem", if you used the words, Hell, DAM, Jesus H. Christ,.....need i say how you'd be dealt with if you said the "F" word?
even the tone of your voice, they'd label you as a trouble maker with a HUGE attitude problem, and you'd be spoken to, warned, the fired if it ever happened again
the past couple (or so) decades of truckers, are NO WHERE's nearly trained like many of us old timers were.
none can read a map, none can talk with out using curse words, and nearly all cry a river of crocodile tears if they stay out more than one day..
this is why, megas carriers suck...........
but as long as there is money, and mergers, and everything else, they will survive......and make the rest of us look bad, and continue to give us...a bad name.Blue jeans, Bud A., Gatordude and 1 other person Thank this.
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