Fired for not reporting an accident that I didnt know I had

I don’t know where you are in Ohio, but you might call J Rayl Transport. Dry van, they run out of Akron, with some guys running out of a drop lot in Columbus. I’ve driven for them for 7 years, good folks.

 

it takes an act of God to get unemployment in Colorado, what a joke.

If you quit or get fired, you don't get it.

 

Yeah but do you ever really need it as a truck driver in Colorado? Your job market is so strong, you could probably have multiple good offers by the next day.

 

That doesn't mean the jobs are quality or well paying.

MOST of them send you west to the mountains daily or nightly and you're stuck in your own personal little hell from Nov to May. That could be chaining 2 nights a week or all 5 days.

The majority don't pay worth a #### and what they do pay isn't commensurate with the work being done.

May to the end of October is cake work.

 

They may not be paying all that well, but if unemployment is difficult at best to get in Colorado, then crummy pay > no pay. That being said, CO from what I'm reading with their 'through no fault of your own' regulation can mean that being fired for being late one too many times in violation of policy is enough to get unemployment claims denied. Unreal.

 

Job market here in NID is absolutely god awful right now. And it's the same deal as Denver. Head East, chain 2-4 times and deal with MT.

All for the same pay as a no CDL delivery van. I might be hanging up the keys. Just ain't no money to be found anywhere. I quit a fuel job in November advertising 130k. Actual pay was around 60-70k after all the wage theft. They've got a lawsuit coming their way. They just don't know it. I'm not driving a truck for 2010 mileage or Micky-D's hourly wages. Not with the liability and headaches. I can do a warm body busy work job for nearly the same money as companies are paying now. And I won't ever work for a company that steals out of paychecks.

Might just take up a rent-a-cop job. I can sit in a prius for 8 hours at 18 bucks an hour. Beats wrassling freight for 23/hr. Anything less than 30/hr with OT is starvation wages in the NW. Digging a hole with the COL and rent now. Why work yourself to death getting nowhere when you could slack off and get equally nowhere? Hard work just for the sake of it? No thanks.

 

Any linehaul/ltl gigs up there?

 

Central Transport is always hiring but the terminal is an hour and a half one way for me. And it's central.

I was at big green this time last year. But putting in 20 hour weeks as well. It's one hell of a black eye on a resume. Spending a short time as a combo at the best LTL in the industry and trying to go anywhere else is nearly a career killer. Nobody wants to hire the guy that was "probably making 150k" and "not dealing with real trucker problems."

Took me 5 months of job searching from spring to fall to get anything. And when I did, the company was Scumbags-R-Us. Now I've had 3 jobs in the past 24 months, 6 months unemployed in the past year. Clean record, all endorsements, Trailer ABS on PSP and nothing else. Spotless CLUE report. Etc.

Radio silence. But it is winter. Should be able to get back running this spring. Maybe. I'm not piloting a rig for 25 bucks an hour, no OT, crap benefits though. Like most of the job postings. I'm down all my possession save for an older paid off car. But cash reserves to last a few years. It isn't lost on me how smart it was to save when times were good. It also isn't lost on me how bad it is to have your career fall apart in your early 30s. Alas, tis trucking.

 

The jealousy is real for sure. Had that literally said in a job interview. The manager was a former driver and was mad I ran at OD lol. Like he interviewed me just to talk ####. Apparently working at a good LTL ain't real trucking. In a way I guess it's true. I didn't have to deal with the typical .40 cpm OTR misery.