My Record got me

I live in South Jersey. I heard that name. I believe they are operating in Pa pretty heavily.

Most of my experience was delivering food to restaurants and convenience stores. Driving OTR is not my choice occupation because of my family.

I think I finally found an LTL Delivery job. The other issue is income of course. I made a modest wage in Foodservice. However, I'm ready to take what I can get, especially if I can maintain my family role. I have been considering those aspects too. It's hard to change, and freightening. I was considering a Longshoreman job working the Ship Docks. Waiting on my twic to apply. They earn a decent wage and a lot of work right now.

I wasn't driving OTR. I was a Delivery Driver for a Foodservice company. The difference is pretty broad.

Obstructing traffic ticket was making a delivery to a Restaurant in a small town. The truck was hanging over the line a little bit on the Shoulder. I'd say that happens often when trucks are making deliveries on a small road.

The two Red Light tickets are for making a right on red. A camera patrolled intersection issued the ticket because I did not come to a complete stop before making the turn. One was at three in the morning on a dark road. Nothing was coming, very clear sight (not a hazardous move IMO). The other was mid-evening, again, clear sight.

The fourth was something that happened often. I came to an intersection that said No Trucks. The bad part was that I was at the Intersection already. I had a 45 ft trailer and a daycab. At that point I was faced with a few choices; Do I make a U-turn on a busy Philadelphia Street? Back-up? Continue until the next intersection. It's something that happens often.

Believe me, I'm not a hazardous driver. I have no accidents and the majority of my driving experience was in Manhattan and Philadelphia. I don't have any speeding tickets.

The later of what you wrote is why I posted this. Things are changing in our industry. This is an eye opening experience for me. In the past, I always got the first job I applied for and I was working for high paying employers in the Transportation Industry (Mclane, US Foodservice, DD).

Good words of advice! When I was first training at Covenant, the Trainer said to me, "Try to imagine every car around you could potentially have your Daughter in the car". That has always stuck with me while driving.

New Century, I didn't try there. They are about thirty miles from me. I'll hit there Monday! Thanks for sharing.

Maybe I'm old school, but I don't think there's anything on my record indicating that I drove like a Dipstick. I guess the verbiage of the two tickets, "Failure to a obey Signal," sounds a bit careless. It wasn't as thought I just shot through a Red Signal. Like I said, obstructing traffic ticket was outrageous in my opinion. I've done small deliveries for years. Often, a small food establishment won't house a 36ft trailer. You park on the corner and start running the stuff to the Kitchen.

Ha ha, typo error on my part. Four in the past three years. I think there is and should be a degree of severity to moving violations. Three of the tickets I paid are moving, one was a parking issue.



I'm starting to get some responses now! Looks like I finally have something lined up driving. Definitely a lot of anxiety right now. If this Transportation Job doesn't move forward, I'm going to pursue a Longshoreman job. Living off your savings, before retirement, is not a good feeling!