Advice for newbie with 2 preventables wanting local work

Doubt that will hurt you for your next job if it does show.
How did US Express find out about such minor incidents?
Surely, you didn't snitch on yourself.

 

OK, I still don't think you have anything to worry about. You still have 6 - 8 mos. before applying to the new job anyway. Pretty sure it will have no effect on your next job. Good luck and best wishes.

 

Advice?

Stop hitting things (you are still allowed to "kiss" a dock with the rear of a trailer, of course).

Carriers & insurance companies really don't like that.

 

Oh man people love to complicate trucking. And I get that, but I like to keep it simple. Only two rules I follow everywhere I go, and I go a lot of places. Don't hit anything and deliver the load. None of the rest of the garbage matters much at all, but I also drive on camera so that limits my stupidity greatly.

I'm sorry to say these companies hope you hit something small, especially a few times. Because then they gotcha. And it didn't cost them much money. It's part of their business model.

You're pretty much going to have to accept that you most likely have multiple accidents on you and when you go to apply somewhere else USX is going to jump up and down and act like a 8 year old and absolutely throw you completely under the bus. They don't want to lose a driver, and they know it's going to be hard for you with those accidents.

But who knows, honestly, no one
You could find out for sure by starting to put in those applications. Maybe apply somewhere where you don't actually want to work, somewhere you think you could get hired, just to see what happens.

 

Problem is, they'll call US Express to verify employment. Now, US Express may do what they can to keep him from leaving. I'd wait until he actually is ready to leave before submitting any apps. to other companies.

 

Yep it's a bit of a risk, but at least he'll know if they're reporting and he won't have to wonder for 6 months.

 

Your trainer with USX apparently sucked.

As a beginner driver -- your odds of hitting something are MUCH GREATER in slow, close-quarter maneuvering (like parking areas).

Your USX trainer should have advised you of such -- & trained you to how be extra careful in those areas.

Due to the nature of the work -- your odds of hitting something will only go up...if/when you switch to food service delivery work.

Thus -- you need to recalibrate your parking area thinking & seriously "up your game" -- before you enter the food service world.

 

4 months in......you're looking too far ahead. Get past your 1 year anniversary first then apply. Those things you did are minor. I wouldn't have told them anything about those incidents. A rollover or jack-knife, or more severe incidents, those would give you problems.