Why not check with safety before wasting someone’s time with everything else first?

My money is on insurance, giving the final no. When company thought it might pass

 

Depends on the company and insurance. Small carrier i used to work at many moons ago needed to pay their insurance $150 every time they wanted to add a driver to run a background check on them and ensure they were actully insurable. While you would think it would be the first step. It usually ended up at the last step.

 

Thank you.

 

This is why the best thing to do when you’re thinking of changing companies is get the new job and take a week or two off at your old job , to make sure the new job is actually going to work out

this kind of thing is unique to the trucking industry

normal businesses normally don’t change job offers after they’ve made an offer in writing and you’ve accepted etc

in trucking it happens all the time

so once you get the new job offer in writing , instead of turning in your truck and quitting .

tell your dispatch you have a family emergency, and need a few days off to assist with your grandfathers move into hospice or whatever .

That will get the dispatch to route you back to your home terminal and give you a few days off .

or if you’re at the home terminal , tell dispatch you’ve got diarrhea really bad and are dehydrated etc and it’s gonna take a two or three days to get it over with

Or just take a vacation and burn up your vacation time if you have any .

this way you can actually start the new job for a few days and get through orientation before quitting the current company .

be sure to take lots of pictures and videos of the truck when you drop it off , otherwise they will usually say you damaged it

 

It comes down to 'Proactive' & ' Reactive' thinking and mentalities that a good majority of people follow and it falls under 'reactive' thinking. Like sheep, most office staff follow a nonthought process and simply just go mindless when processing new employees. Later saying, 'it fell through the cracks' placing the blame through someonelse. 'Insurance' should of been the main processes leading to accidents or any tickets on a driver's record. However, usually in larger trucking companies that use group insurance things might be over looked depending on the severity of the accident or incidents on record. I had the last company I worked for most of career call their insurance broker, and made sure they dug up anything they could find on me. It was a pathetic way of trying to trap me so I would stay with them.

 

Are you with PTL now? I can't remember.

 

Maybe try jbhunt. I was a rehire but they took me on with a new 24mph over in my personal vehicle. They've been keeping me plenty busy....too busy!