Trucker to trucker advise

It is hard for me to take advice from someone that butchers the english language so bad. Also most companies have a dress code that lets you wear a pair of shorts with a polo shirt and tennis shoes. I drive flatbed so i do not wear shorts when getting loaded and unloaded but when i am driving from New Jersey to California i wear shorts and a polo shirt.

 

SouthernPride
I appreciate your opinion. However I don't agree with it whole heartedly, you are
still intitled to your own opinion.
I have also seen some very unproffesionally dressed drivers out there
The one that bother me the most are the wannabe thugs. If you wear your jeans so losse they hang to your knees so I can see your boxer shorts I absolutley feel the need to give you a wedgie and show you how to pull them up. As for shorts I wear the Jean shorts that come to just above the knee. They are clean no holes and I wear a nice shirt and if not raining I just might be wearin sandles too. I take pride in my appearance and my proffesional attitude, and the respect I treat my shippers and recievers with. Again I appreciate your opinion, but you know that old saying about them. Everyone has one. It didn't mean yours is wrong or mine is right we both just have different ones.

 

I couldn't agree more.
As long as you are clean and neat who cares if you wear shorts and a polo or jeans and a button down? So many of these "clean" drivers in their boots jeans and button downs smell like ashtrays and I can't stand to talk to them with their rotten teeth and horrible breath that you can smell from several feet.
If these are real men then I'm proud to be a "rookie" with nearly twenty years of safe driving experience.

 

Sorry if I hurt your feeling, First of all in my line of work shorts were not allowed (drilling rigs ,refinerys,) so I know nothing about driving a truck and being able to wear shorts. I really have no dog in the running so I will just keep to myself now.

 

I think as long as you are neat, clean and have a professional attitude and respect for others, you will do fine regardless of what you wear!

 

i have to say just because someone dresses profesionally doesnt make them a profesional, same goes for someone not dressing professionally doesnt make them unprofesional. its all about perception. if someone looks at you wearing shorts and a t-shirt as unprofessional then that is what you are to them and they mey not hire you. its all about perception.

 

rocks gona tell a story thats true as a 24 hr day, i was a roadway superentendent for a company and i had hired this 24 yr old young lady( all due respec ,she was the man of the family) if you know what i mean,,, she showed up for work on time ,everyday for 3 yrs worked late if asked,all around good employee, she exspressed a intrest in running heavy equipment,so she exspailed all her dad had was a bobcat and she had run that,,, this was my exspression at the time but everyone deservs a fair chance to improve, im thinking this might be a bad idea but what the hell,i showed her the basics of running a front end loader, and i must say she was nervous but i seen something everyone else didnt see trying to poke fun and giveing her a hard time, i didnt do anything spacial for this young lady, but in my bizness you can tell when someone has the want and disire to learn and willing to go past their comfort zone,in my bizness we call it the touch, not everone can do this,,well as time went on she masterd the laoder,the dozer,the trackhoe and the grader,,,and she seem to excell at the grader,,,,long story short she now at the ripe old age of 28yrs old she makes alittle over $30 bucks a hour doing finsh grade dot road work , i aget a call once a year around x-mas time thanking me for teaching her and takeing the time that no one else would,,she now makes a #### good liveing and im freaking very proud of her,,,so this being said you go for the gusto and grab your brass ring girl the dino

 

My grandpa always told me something very similar. He said, "If you focus on what you don't have, you'll never see all that you do have".

 

this is oh so very true