You're too dumb for this job.

I've over 12 years in and am still in the bottom half of the seniority list.
Fortunately that is good enough for me to stick around.

 

What i've found is O/O's that move to a company position usually spend a lot of time telling you "that's not how i did it".

 

Yup, and it's always somebody else's fault that they went broke, bankrupt, or couldn't make the payments any more.
Some of them never make the connection between being a good driver...which most them are...to being a good businessman...which most of them aren't.

 

And that's when you respond with...... And now I'm going to show you the correct way to do it.

 

That sums it up nicely. You are slowly recognizing that you do not need someone to hold your hand. Some people were never meant to be an employee (you) and some people were never meant to be self employed (the majority of company drivers).

Don't fight it. Get the engine fixed, and go back to being an owner operator.

But until you work from the other side of the counter, managing some of the buffoons that call themselves employees, not just in trucking but in all businesses you will not understand what management is up against. Oh yes, you are right, there are buffoons in management also.....

 

I guess I’m just wondering about the job where you quit after 4 days. Did it not come up in the interview the standard training time ? That’s a question I’d be sure to ask.

I’m just a company driver. But going OO looking better and better.

 

I’m guessing in the past they had new drivers mess up with the forklift with catastrophic results. But if I were them if you seemed to have it down pat after a few days or whatever I’d cut you loose without a trainer.

 

@Cat sdp

I'm not at all being smart please don't take it that way and it's a sincere question.

If you have been an owner operator for 11 years you must be well established. You must have money in the bank you must have your truck paid off you must know what you're doing and know the business.

If you have some personal things going on that you don't want to discuss I can certainly respect that, but I'm just curious if you've been doing this for 11 years why would you not run your own truck but yet stay in the same industry to run someone else's?

I can understand wanting to go into a different industry but why would you park or sell your own truck and go to work for someone else?

That has to be difficult on many levels.