Warning for California CDL Holders

Just a thought, but nothing works as well as BAD PUBLICITY, against a major company.

 

I wouldn't have to "kick her off the truck", She has enough sense to get off the truck without being told if that becomes necessary because she realizes that I'm working and that that REQUIRES a certain level of personal responsibility and knowing when you are just going to interfere and be in the way...


This is a business, Not a pleasure cruise...

 

This industry has always been about money and results.Safety and hours of service has always been secondary. It's not anything new what you're going thru.The states are hurting for money,so they will try and disallow any claim.The more this industry changes the more it stays the same.Blame, screw and deny the driver,but get it there yesterday

 

You knowing the health limitations took a disabled passenger on an OTR, time sensitive product hauler, and in the years you have been driving, have never once done anything whatsoever on the shady side of legal with your logs, along with the point that the company, during those years never switched up schedules, or delivery times, or delayed getting you information to p/u the load on time. I'm sorry, but your story has some holes in it.

There are no guarantees about anything in this industry, and yet you expect to get just that from your company because you decided to take a passenger, with health issues along. Did, or didn't your passenger sign an agreement with the company regarding the disciplines, rules, and liabilities before said passenger got on your truck? And did you, or did you not understand these terms with the company before you took the passenger along?

There is a huge difference between your situation with Marten, and BW900's situation...the two can't be compared. First reason, you were a company driver, BW900 is O/O...he has absolute control of what his rig will be doing. As a company driver you are at the whim of the planners/dispatchers...

It appears that BW900 has a better grasp on the situation, knowing and enforcing, and making sure his passenger understands the potential FUBARS that can and do happen in this industry. You, failed to take these into consideration, or at best, you simply ignored these issues for the sake of having the passenger along. You actually did your passenger a disservice by taking him/her along knowing the ramifications that could/would happen.

 

blackw, as soon as i read your reply i knew you were a o/o. the only thing that matters to you is that truck and your own comfort level in your own small world. you can try and hide behind that dedicated to duty B/S, but i see you for what you are, a cold harted and selfish person that would throw your kid to the lions just to keep your #*# from being eaten first!! you and every other cdl driver out there that continues to kiss the backside of the dispatchers and the company they work for are the reason the trucking industry is the way it is, when the need of the shipper who cant get their orders ready on time and a reciver who just wants enough inventory on hand to keep from paying taxes on it and load brokers that are liars and crooks that will screw trucking companies and o/o at every turn ! gets mixed with selfish and pompous jacklegs like you, it makes a bitter drink that all of us truckers that try to run within the law get shoved down our throats on a daily basis. it eats at your soul ( oh sorry, its clear that you dont have one by what you said) when someone with honor and a true sense of duty has the courage to take a stand for what thy know is right. its sad that you dont have that quality,( honor , courage ,integrity) and the intellect to use them. dont let them bother you ca medicine woman you keep doing what is right and what is good , your fellow trucker KING DAVID.

 

You can qualify for an extension without actually receiving the first round of benefits.

 

No, you file for an review, and it gets to a judge, then you have a phone hearing, and then the judge follows the law, overturns the clerk, you get your case approved, and you get all your money backdated from when you filed a claim.