2 DUIs and limited experience

THAT’S FAN-TAS-TIC!!!!!!



Sooooo....flatbed duty -- or reefer???

-- L

 

Employers find that being unemployed to help a family member recover from a serious medical condition is one thing while being unemployed long-term to sell drugs quite another.

Rule of thumb: when the employer with a job opening ask for an explanation from a job applicant, you are free to ignore the request and not get hired or give the explanation and MAYBE get hired. How many other jobs hand you $200k worth of drive-a-way machinery plus maybe a million dollars of customer property and HOPE you come back? Trucking is a mobile business spread across states or the whole country. Driving is THE MOST DANGEROUS thing most normal people do in their entire life. The crashes are very very expensive and lives are often lost.

The goal is not to satisfy you with how the trucking industry operates, but to give the person paying the bills confidence you can be trusted with all of that responsibility. I understand MOST people think truck drivers are r*tards so why would an employer giving $1 million worth of stuff and using r*tards care about security? Most people who are not truck drivers become r*tards when they get behind the wheel but it feels normal to them so they don't understand doing that job professionally requires more than what is required to hire a teenager to drive a cash register within 5 feet of a store manager.

 

Decker is not bad. They have good flatbed drivers, from what I've seen.

 

I just don't get these kinds of posts. Making mistakes is human, struggling with substance or alcohol abuse is real, but why do people with these issues get in their heads to become a professional driver? It is one of the most regulated, highly scrutinized jobs, from a safety standpoint. It just tells me that the trucking industry is perceived as "a great job for anyone who is struggling with making better life choices."
My advice to anyone who is struggling with addiction, alcohol abuse, or just overall dangerous driving practices, is GIVE IT UP!!! Trucking ain't for you!
Find work elsewhere, and maybe someday in the distant future, you will understand what it means to be responsible and take the wheel on your life. Then, perhaps, you'll be ready to take the wheel on a big rig.