Orientation 02/29/12

Doubt you picked up my old truck, but my 07 9400i was 1247. Good truck until it died on me (electronics in transmission) in upstate new york grossing 80k lbs.

 

ya fleet 43 is better

 

Sarge...that's funny that you are going through everything I went through at USA. I, too, stayed at the Microtel in Georgetown on New Years with my phase 2 trainer. He was a total ***hole! Said he lost all his teeth drinking Mountain Dew...when we all know it was Crystal Meth! haha But honestly, GET AWAY FROM TRACY COPELAND AND FLEET 40! I had him and had nothing but problems with my truck! I couldn't run any miles and he wouldn't get my truck fixed....just wanted my truck to breakdown on me, and get loads of DOT fines along with it, before he even considered getting me into a different truck! When he FINALLY got me into a different truck, it was too late....I jumped ship after he got me a truck that was utterly disgusting on the inside with 550k miles on it, I just got out of a truck that had 518k miles on it. He's a liar and a cheat. I was out for 5 weeks and was promised 5 days off...NOT TRACY...I called his boss and was told to take 5 days off....I took 4...on the fourth day, this ####### was blowing up MY personal phone telling me to get to my truck, or he's gonna do this, or do that! PLEASE GET A DIFFERENT FM!

 

My original FM did that to me on the day of my grandfathers funeral. Left a message on my phone saying if I did not contact him within so many hours they would tow my truck yadda yadda. Lets just say I didn't talk very nicely to him when I did call back... I was in a detached garage and my family could hear me in the house, I wasn't a very happy camper. But, I did get the days off I needed and that FM got fired a week or two after that.

 

Beginning to like the Community College route after following these dac threads more thoroughly...

 

sarge..PLEASE tell Brian(Tracy's boss) you want a different fleet manager....I'm warning you now...just being friendly and not negative about the situation! Tracy used to be a cop and has his buddies pull you over for fines! I met 2 other drivers that has happened to in his fleet and they didn't know until I found him on facebook! Yep. you now have a DOT officer(not really, but still a cop!) that is YOUR boss...and he'll go through EVERY LENGTH TO MAKE SURE HE'S YOUR BOSS...when you're really HIS BOSS! Go to another fleet! And he posts how being a FM is more stressful than law enforcement because of all the "whiney drivers" I have on my fleet. "They can't get anything right if it hit them on the head." An exact quote on his facebook, and why USA refuses to see this is beyond me!