Finished orientation today

If he's sleeping a lot, who's training?

 

The trainer gets paid the miles you, the trainee drives!
If you two drive 4500 a week x .40... You do the math!
Don't loan anyone money... You are being paid enough to barely survive during
training! Good Luck !

 

Hey Newbie...what company did you move to? You're post told it like it is!
We will be leaving KLLM in a couple of months also! Not the company it once was!

 

Why a couple of months? If it's that bad why stay that long?

Hmmm, and Newbie...why were you so loyal to them and talk them up so much if all this was the case? Wish ya'll would have just come right out and said some of what ya'll were feeling for the company before was just "wishful thinking".

I started this with no experience whatsoever and not one single friend that drove. So, I had no one to talk to about how to handle ANY of this. I wanted to talk privately with a couple of you on here, Newb being one, but had no private message privileges along with not a whole lot of time while driving. I've survived and learned it mostly on my own.

Anyway, I'm here now and things have been a little better last couple of weeks. All I do is take it day by day. The grass don't look any greener for the moment anyway.

 

Driving regional for a Grocery Distribution Company. Drop n hook, La, Miss, Tex. Great job, great pay, home just about every night, except for the long Texas and north Mississippi runs.

 

Big Al, It didn't start overnight. Understand by my name, I was a Newbie too and had to learn most of it on my own. Rarely had time to go on-line. Things were great when I first started out, and yes, you will continue to learn most of it on your own. KLLM was doing me right in the beginning and were 10X better than the usual start-up joints like Swift, Werner and a few others. The only one I could talk to in a hurry waas my old trainer. I could call him anytime, and I usually did. I was able to PM the Toad and a couple of others here and even had their cell phone numbers, but never actually got to meet any of them. Although I did get advice from them, but they were having to drive and sleep like I was.

Then I got a new dispatcher that I didn't care for, and they would not give me a different one. This one played by some sort of guidelines that they have that driver just don't know evidently. It's like it was a well orchestrated plan unfolding on company drivers. I just couldn't see it. Then, that's when the pay thing and the push to go lease started. I was going to go lease, but then they dropped the pay and some other stuff. Then , my old trainer started telling me things that were going on and how big changes were occurring. Then I overheard a couple of folks talking behind a cubicle in the office one day, and it all started to come to a point, to where I had to go, or stay. I chose to go, even though I didn't want to leave KLLM. I saw the handwriting on the wall and I had an opportunity to drive for a while with an Owner Operator Fleet, until I could find a more "prosperous" and driver friendly job. On my hometime, I made some more calls, I cleaned out my truck, called them and said I was quitting and I would return my truck to Jackson and would haul a load to get there. I got a load, hauled it to the yard, turned in my keys, went home. Started driving the next day.

It wasn't that I played games here on this board and said everything was "peachy" when it wasn't. I believed everything was good and it was. But suddenly and quickly, there was a turning point and went downhill from there. I was treated well and had a good truck. But things changed very quickly for me. When I saw the opportunity to jump ship and land in another truck, I did.