USA truck experience

I had nothing, but a rand at the time... Doesn't do much for inner city and town driving, I was broke
No Computer, no GPS nothin' but a flip phone only good for txt and call and my rand

I said I started out broke and behind and my miles were never good took awhile to have spare income to spend on such

Eventually I had those things and didn't depend solely on those dir, but as a broke noob it was sort of important and really
They're making the real money off the loads, and of course I did start calling everywhere I went once I caught on
But its really beginners mistakes versus a company notcaring enough about its on freight

 

I know people busy, but there should be those set aside for things such as that, wrong company names I got those alot, some just had dif names on paper or shared buildings, if I noticed mistakes id send in corrections on my Qualcomm doubt anything ever changed though


My last load it was 1260 miles, I had already drove for 2 hours out the day and used up 4 out of my 14.. I figured if I went ahead and took my 10 id have 2 full shifts instead of one and a partial and itd be night so most likely less chance of delays
I'd went to sleep, woke greeted by a team showed up to take my load the best load I haar had the whole time I was there, that's hw the argument started if anyone was curious.. He wasn't completely wrong, for wanting the load to stay moving, but I really don't believe I could've made 1260 in 19 hrs at 63 mph so... And they were watching my logs because of flat tire ticket and inspection, so I was trying to start staying legal as possible


In retrospect I could've probably split logged it, but that was against company policy and would be a log violation as far as the company was concerned, which I had in the past before they started watching me after the tire ticket

 

Yea but I think I would've been close to making it
With 22 hours which was possible taking my ten. That's why I said it wasn't so much his fault
He was a relatively new fm for me..
It was just everything prior made me
More mad about it then I should've been

And he went off on me about taking my ten something about driving hours I had left in the day, not taking into account that my new shift would start after appointment time... So the argument and I was mad before all that went down

i do regret what i did to get fired, i chose the wrong person to be mad at and probably should've just bit my lip
but really the whole experience just seemed setup for failure, really hard to be level headed not making money in a field like this, i didnt expect much starting out.. But that was rediculuous

 

Yea but I couldn't 'legally' make it either way
maybe I could've splitlogged

Thought my first fm may have been intentionally changing them, however I have no idea
It was alot of bad directions
Back to back, it was right after I had called the fleet supervisor about my miles being so low