Schneider behaving badly

Sorry your not cut out to be a truck driver...find another line of work. Waiting at docks comes with the job. Throwing a hissy fit on the dock, and driving off the customers property and then whining to your FM. really? Trucking isn't a 9 to 5 job, and things aren't always going to go your way.

 

What the hell are you talking about??? What does Rush Limbaugh have to do with you, Schneider and truck driving? So, if they broke the law as you claim you have filed charges and/or a lawsuit correct? You do realize Don Schneider retired a couple years ago right? and again like the rush thing what does that have to with the topic? Communist China??? Talk about reading a newspaper you do know that the Soviet Union broke up about 20 years ago? Try to stay on topic here or at least try to make some sense.

 

Since he wants to put politics in the mix, he sounds like another Democrat looking for a handout. That's why you vote Democrat right? The party of entitlement. God forbid you actually make an honest wage. Let me know how that government cheese taste.

 

I don't know where you are getting the anger and hate from, the problems you seem to have with Schneider are were self inflicted. You lied on your application and you left the customer without permission etc. The company, whether its Schneider, Swift, or the ACME trucking company are not to blame you are. Stop blaming everybody else and being a victim.

"Apologists of the status quo"... most of us are not. We are professionals who do our jobs and when we do something wrong accept responsibility and move on without trying to pass the blame. That is part of what being a professional is about.

What is the "real reason" they didn't want you? Race, religion, sexual preference, political affiliation what? You think they are just sitting up in some big office going through drivers names deciding to get rid of this one and that one because of x reason but will keep this one and that one because they "fit" the profile the company is looking for? You implied this now man up tell us what you think the real reason is.

Again if they broke the law as you claim, have you filed charges or a lawsuit? I'm sure there is a lawyer in Mass someplace willing to go after a company with deep pockets if they thought they could win.

I'm still trying to figure out where politics plays into this. Its like whenever somebody can't make a rational point they try to throw politics into it.

Thank you for appreciating my work, I will continue ripping and calling out the whiners and complainers who deserve to be called out.

 

As a student I am finding a lot of good info info here in the truckers report forums. If the world of trucking was all sunshine, I wouldn't be here learning what to expect from the industry. Although this is an issue I am seeing a lot here lately (not just specifically the Massachusetts thing), but the "have you ever" statements, and the "I certify this to be true" (not to the best of my knowledge), but absolutely the word of God himself true, and "I don't remember" is not an excuse! Does this mean I am a liar? There are only a handful of people in the world with photographic memories. Is this a requirement of all truck drivers? Not just trucking... I see this more and more everywhere... I mean come on, give me 10 minutes and I can ask you a question about something you can't remember. Does this make you a liar? I don't think so, and I bet you wouldn't thinks so either. Knowing this I am not filling out any applications until I have an N.C.I.C. background check (that I pay for $150 plus driving 60 miles to be fingerprinted) and an A.C.I.C. background check from my state. (the feds and the state can sometimes have different info on you) there goes another $50 bucks, plus a T.S.A. background check to get my hazmat, with my CDL costs there went another $183. Even now I am being told and I quote both the federal and the state officials who are "helping" me to get this info...(all in the name of not "falsifying" a CMV application) "This is not the same information an employer or insurance company can obtain from us" What?!?!? (of course this is after the credit card payment cleared, not before) You add the DAC (which has very little accountability, and should be illegal) to the mix and you have a potential for disaster. Don't get me wrong, I am not taking a side in this thread, I am pointing out a common situation that IMHO has a major flaw in it. I think in this situation it is much more "professional" to say "hey, we found something in your criminal history that may be an issue, providing the offense does not make you unemployable, Do you submit to a polygraph test?" "Ok, the first question is... Did you knowingly fail to mention this misdemeanor on your application?" --- At least you would have a chance at that point to be "human". We make mistakes, we are human. Should we be forever ###### for life over a misdemeanor? I once many many years ago... (sorry Corporate America, I don't remember the exact date, or offense description, or the court disposition, or the amount of restitution paid to the cent, only the lesson it taught me.) I got a ticket for a speed in excess of 100mph. I was a stupid kid with a fast car. (how many of you out there have been one of those?) I know that was at least 20 years ago or more. Does that make me unemployable, or is it the fact I can't remember exactly when? I'm thinking that most truck drivers are far from goody-two-shoe-little-miss/mister-perfect-I'm-all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips employees that dropped out of seminary school to be a truck driver. Come on Big Truck Company, I'm not trying to lie to you, I will tell you anything you need to know, I have nothing to hide. I just wanna work!!! Better than saying "Aw to hell with it, I'll just get on welfare, and make everyone else pay my bills." Don't ya think? With a little luck and some sweat maybe I can make us both some good $$$.