Is your life worth $50K ?

They can only push you as far as you let them. Like you're saying, it's only a $50k a year job. Hell with pushing that hard or risking your life over some desk jockey bs. If you lose the job, whatever, you still got your life. Roll on to the next job.

 

Sad to hear about another driver losing his life.

You're right about being considered a slacker. No matter where I've worked, the goal is to get the most out of the driver and truck as is possible. Runs are scheduled so tight it's nearly impossible to stop for even a small break, let alone a meal. 12-14 hour days are the norm as are 6 and 7 day work weeks.

Only in trucking is a 40 hour week considered part-time, at least in the eyes of the companies and dispatchers.

 

okay , so im kinda confused here, are you staying up all night at the casnio or something, the law is the law, once hours of driving is up, its up, are you working in the yard, if not i be headed home or sleeper and getting some sleep, instead of playing around somewere, or mayby go teams , split the shift with anthor driver if your having that much problem , keeping awake just a few thoughts i had

 

Oh, black ball me. Please. I'll rape your dead carcass in court and love every minute of it. But don't take that as advice, that's just me.

Like I said, better to get away from a ###### job and still have your life. It doesn't matter what you make or what you have, once you lose out that last time, none of it matters. So if you know it's that big of a problem, and you do or you wouldn't be here, get the #### out.

Go haul something non-flammable. Go haul water. Go haul flatbed. Go into the used car business. Go drive a tow truck. Go back to school and learn how to build space planes. Just do something before you wake up burning alive in the cab and regret not doing anything. You know I'm right. You know you're right. You just wanted to hear someone else say it. So there it is.

 

I dropped my tanker and hazmat years ago, I worked as a tanker yanker and driver trainer. Pulled tanks out of Fairfax Virginia and hauled on percentage, drivers would come in and your box would be full of load tickets and fully knowing you could not haul all of them on a shift.

After being pushed I started to buck back, tightened up on the training and rookies.

After 2 years I had a rookie, he could not haul the mountains empty and was dangerous so I took him off the training. One of the terminal managers lap dogs took him out one trip and passed him, well I got a good bit of grief and I told them I would not be training for 30.00 more a day for them.

2 weeks go by and rookie gets a out load to Cumberland Maryland Sheets station, runs down the mountain off the no truck exit ramp, rolls over and burns down houses and the truck as well.

I quit the next week

 

Seriously, who told you the driver died or that there was even a fire??

http://www.kpho.com/story/17587605/tanker-rollover-closes-sr-260


Posted: Apr 19, 2012 3:00 PM CDT Updated: Apr 20, 2012 7:25 AM CDT Posted by Steve Stout - email

I know the stretch of road where this accident occurred. I doubt that the Showlo fire department responded fast enough to extinguish a fire. You can see by the picture that the truck and trailer are intact, though on their side.

The driver is lucky to be alive. Had he laid it over at any number of spots along that road there wouldn't have been enough of the truck left to identify.



I have been pulling tanks for over 30 years now, with 18 years of gas hauling. I worked for ARCO, (just like Gashauler did) for 14 of those years. I have seen any number of tanker fires. When those fires occur in as remote an area as Heber, there isn't enough left of the equipment to identify what even happened, let alone let the LEO's do a DOT inspection.

If you are unhappy with your working conditions and pay, it is maybe time to look for a different employer, instead of whining about it here. There are tanker jobs out here that will pay you much better than $50k a year. The trade off is moving to where those jobs are, then possibly not being home every single day.

 

Pulling Haz mat flammable, companies should be more geared towards safety rather than overworking drivers. Just get a new job, F it.