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The industry is literally FULL of "candidates" like this..

 

Considering that it takes minimum of two weeks to even get hired for a trucking job, I honestly don't think that this is possible

 

Agreed, she came here looking for advice then when it was given she gets upset
If words on a page upsets them the road is gonna be brutal

 

She has a month’s worth of driving experience in 5 jobs, not 5 driving jobs in a month. As soon as she played the damsel in distress card….

…she should have been ignored or at least been shown the way to the Ladies Room, where she will either get her ears tickled like she wants OR a pissed off female for insinuating that a woman cannot handle the stresses of driving.

If you really want equality, there can be no double standard. If she showed up with the mentality that she displayed here, she was probably shown the door during orientation. That’s why she wants to hide her employment history.

 

He didn't say it to be cool or funny, not even close.

You are the one that brought up that you are female, and you are the one that stated that as a female you have a more difficult time for some reason.
There are many female truckers out here that would never pull that poor poor pitiful me stuff, and would take offense at even the notion.

You are NOT a victim here.
You are not being oppressed in any way.

You are someone that decided to go into trucking.
Someone... just someone. No more or less than anyone else, no matter gender or however you wish to identify yourself.
Just someone.

Going through 5 jobs in as many weeks would give any employer pause.
But you want to play the gender card and ask how to lie about your history.

What is really horrifying is your utter lack of respect for the people here or the industry you want to work in.

 

This thread got me like..


An yes, I do think I'm rather funny, and no, I don't care if anyone agrees.

Sirscrapntruckalot -

 

Your inability to grasp what is being put right in your face is the most horrifying. You came here for advice. You expected people here to side with you and give you some sort of secret sauce to beat the system to find a 6th driving job. When you were confronted with the harsh reality of what 5 jobs in a short period means for your driving career, you got defensive. It hasn't sounded like you are giving the complete story of what happened at each job. In telling you to resign, I think you are trying to save face. I think that you got hired at some places and after having been hired, employment history came up and they fired you. That's my gut feeling on why jobs 3, 4, and 5 resulted in you no longer being employed by those companies. Companies don't spend the money to hire people only to decide to tell them to resign. Something occurred to cause those companies to fire you. Maybe they told you to resign because it's less paperwork for them. Based on your complete focus on yourself, your victim stance, and your refusal to accept genuine feedback, you are not cut out to be a truck driver. You wouldn't listen to any trainer who tells you things directly, sometimes forcefully because the immediacy of the moment requires it. I think you are an enormous liability being behind the wheel of a very dangerous vehicle. Find another line of work. Your skin is too thin and you sound too emotionally volatile to me. Oh, this isn't because you are a woman. There are men about whom this is true. There are women about whom this isn't true. It's a personality thing.

 

Oh nooooo, they should keep this thread for educational purposes and to aid new drivers. 5 jobs and only 1 month driving experience? Three jobs didn’t even allow you to get through orientation. But it’s not you.

If you’re driving a 15 year old car and the car runs out of gas, it’s not your fault! The car is old, out of warranty, and defective from the factory, right?

If you are 5’2 and 250 lbs and can’t fit in a dress size 4 that you bought, you blame the fork and spoon, and swear up and down that the dress maker sold you the wrong dress.

You do not exist in reality.

(You newbies and lurkers, remember this: if you cannot identify what you did wrong, you can never better your situation. You will always continue to fail.)

Six back quiet.

 

Au contraire. I can hire a local and have him complete through orientation in about 48 hours. Call me on a Monday morning, I'll have you fill out the intelliapp, then in my office that afternoon after seeing our drug testing folks, HR paperwork and road test that day, and actual orientation the next day, with a load assigned by dispatch by the time the drug results are returned so you can hit the road Wednesday morning.

Why waste time?

I can stay later to finish processing the background checks, running the Clearinghouse, MVR, and PSP. I can build their packet the first evening and have the pre-employment screenings all at least sent out by the time you came back for the full day of orientation, as we use the DAC history for verification on some, and fax/email the remaining requests (except the companies that use paid services, those we have to individually run but are near-instant returns).

Of course, this means I'll be extra salty of this person walks off the job after a day or two or I find several prior employers that were unreported. Then you're being escorted off the property and a DAC annotation of "Terminated, Falsified Application" will be entered for the next guy to see.

Could the latter be the reason for 3, 4, and 5? Possibly. But until the OP fesses up to the actual reason for termination numbers one and two ("a couple incidents" isn't saying what she did), we can only speculate.