Attention all company drivers!!!

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finally, the voice of reason crying in the wilderness of bitter truckers!

 

Its always funny to me to listen to drivers (or anyone) position themselves as though one day outta the "blue clear sky" the company fired them or began wronging them in some way or the other. You bet there are imperfect situations and employees are injured by employers. Happens everyday. But what about the employee injurying the employer? How?

1) Theft: Fuel/False Repair Reimbursements
2) Negligence: Preventable Accidents/DOT Inspection Issues
3) Failure to Complete Tasks (deliveries) in a Timely Manner.
...............and other ways w/out being to long winded.........................

Why doesn't anyone ever start out saying, for example, "I got busted using my fuel card selling fuel to other drivers and the company fired me, don't work for them because they are jerks"!?

People, by their nature want everyone to believe it's someone else who has caused their problem, when actually they caused a problem and the company reacted to the problem with some form of discipline, based on the infraction. Is this true in all cases, no, however, in most cases its very true! (nothing is perfect)

The companies pay a lot of money in training, insurance, maintenance and to read some of the posts here, one could deduce that companies want to continue this pace, in the face of ever rising costs. I suspect that most companies would like to maintain/retain their current workforce versus the constatnt turnover. This would increase productivity and reduce the cost of the new driver training (and associated higher insurance premiums). A cost reduction would likely transfer to a higher wage for the driver. (laugh or poke fun but its true!)

A company has a lot of exposure and the fact is, drivers become disqualified all the time due to lots of reason that are not company related. But yet its the company who gets blamed and we all gather around and post our thoughts, under the guise of a screen name, in a vain effort to change something that in most cases, was caused by the driver.

No situation or company is perfect. Thats not what Im saying. But the responsibility to perform at your best begins with the "person in the mirror". No company can define you or what your about, but this job will tell the story right away about who you are and the companies are going to react to the revelation of your person, but that reaction is controlled by you!

not a popular view im sure and i mean no offense. im a company driver and am not ashamed or afraid because i know who i am and so does my company....USA Truck!

 

HowdY Harry.
Welcome to The Trucker's Report forums.

I gotta say I was a tad surprised and quite pleased when I saw one of my posts being quoted in a positive manner. I didn't think anyone actually read my posts, --- at least not the entire post if the post looks like it contains too many words to bother readin' it at all.

What I find strange is, even though they don't read the entire post to fully understand the point(s) being made, they'll still post a reply, --- with off-the-wall comments that don't really pertain to what I'd written, and usually missing the point by a country mile. When I mention that it's obvious that they didn't read the entire post, their reply often tells the rest of the story. What I'm told is that they don't need to read the entire post, ..... because they (think that they) already know what I was goin' to say, so they figure it's a waste of their time to read an entire long(er) post from beginning to end.

When informed that what they thought my post was about, isn't about what they thought it was. That's when they'll tend to cop an attitude and inform me that I'm obviously not aware of what I write, insisting that their take, (which is a MIStake) is accurate, and the point(s) I made/make in a post are pointless and of no real value. Just the ramblin' on of words that say nothing.
How they determine the words say nothing when they haven't read all of the words is a mystery to me, and a mystery they say they can't be bothered to explain.

Little do they know, there's no explanation necessary.
Their actions and excuses reveal what they really are.
The harder they try to convince me otherwise, the easier it is to see through their facade all the way to their high opinion of themselves and their know-it-all (missing) personality.
What's scary is, I think some of 'em actually believe they are what they imagine they are, and imagine others see them the same way they imagine.

It gets really interesting when those types encounter an unfamiliar situation that they're havin' difficulty with, and they can't imagine the way to git-'er-dun.
Unless they can snap into reality enough to know their strong points and their not so strong points as well, and learn how to strengthen their not so strong points, I doubt they'll be content in the Big truck truckin' industry. Those who won't listen, won't learn.
Those who don't learn, usually don't last more than a year in the industry before they burn out.
Those who don't last due to a lack of aptitude, and/or an inability to control their imagination, aren't likely to accept that their problem(s) are self-inflicted. Better if they can pin a problem on something, or someone, else, ---- the company rules, dispatcher, fellow drivers, unrealistic schedules, shabby equipment, etc., etc........ ......................... anybody and everybody who can be blamed for a know-it-all's inabilities, probably will be blamed.
Know-it-all's tend to want control.
Know-it-all's, aren't usually able to handle bein' in control.
Lack of confidence?
Or, the realization that what they claim they can do and how well they claim that they can do it, is only to impress others, ...... with their words. Those with the aptitude, ability, skill and experience, who are capable of handling the various aspects of Big truck truckin', and make it look easy, don't ordinarily run their mouth about it.
Nothin' to brag about.
Nothin' to prove.
No one to try to impress.
No one to try to convince.

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Now, just out of curiosity, how many readers who started at the top are still here, readin' this last sentence?

 

I am! Then again I usually am. I can pretty much always count on getting at least a smile if not a chuckle out of reading your posts!

 

.....me. I read it all.

 

Giltner only allows him to take $100 a week.They have told all dispatchers,shop guys everyone no more.Still no paycheck.He has tried to even get $25 and the answer is no.

 

I think most drivers are intelligent people. It takes some know how to move that 40 ton mistress safely up and down the network....and beyond. However, these forums usually do not produce the best and the brightest. Typically, most use inflamatory remarks or self indulgence as a platform to try and make a point that does not make any sense to anyone, including the author. Further, they read a portion of an opinion and try to "spin it" into the rehtoric that they deem appropriate, never have finished reading the post and completly missing the point, then showing their true lack of understanding by trying to convince the audience how "smart" they are by using insults, half sentences, and mis-spelled words. As I have stated earlier, "revealing everything about their true selves and who they are".

If those characteristics become so clear to readers using this forum (from those types of people), do these same people think that their FMs and co-workers do not see the same thing? Always busy shifting the blame, wanting you (readers) to know who did what to them and why you should be afriad of them.

Sad and pathetic. Comical too! Its makes for good reading if your into short stories that are both cycular and predictable in their paths.
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Yes I read to the end, how else can you know how to follow the conversation and understand the intention of the author? Interesting reading I have to say.

as for the simple minded posting here, I suppose they have their place too

 

:smt117:smt107:smt069I :smt112

That's a twuism.
No doubt about it.
I don't know how you do it.
It seems like every where I go, there you've been, already, --- again.
If you'da been a jockey, I'm thinkin' there ain't NO one who could catch you.
You're a Lilbit with a lotta energy.

I won't be satisfied 'till I have y'all rollin' in the aisles, --- beggin' me to stop it some more.
Don't think I won't, either.

If you read it all, then you read more of it than I did. Actually, I seldom ever read what I write. Most of the time I don't agree with what I say, but if I mention that to me, I go and get all defensive. The next thing ya know, we're in a bar somewhere suckin' suds in betwixt our Star Spangled Twue Road Stories, --- while keepin' an eye on the "TIPS" jar.

We wind up havin' a blast as the beers keep on a-comin' and we keep on a-puttin' 'em down the hatch.
Point oh four BAC was achieved hours ago. :smt030
I figure, about the time the kegs run dry, that point, oh-four readin' would be approachin' the outer limits of a solid point two-oh.
SOMEbody!
Call me a taxi.
And I'd appreciate it if whomever is spinnin' this place 'round and 'round, :smt120 would find somethin' else to do.

 

I read all the words not over two syllables...-They are to HARD for me...