Question from new driver

They will hire with no flatbed experience.I have some seat time but no flatbed exp. so I'm headed there Nov 5th. Ah one more week of sitting on my butt doing nothing.

 

Pretty sad when the military guys are treated this way.

 

Military experience is very different from civilian experience. This I have first hand knowledge of.

 

Yes because when something falls off a military truck, they just pick it up and stick it back on the deck. DOT can't say crap lol

 

most of all your commen sense

 

True. Also, today's Army drivers don't deal with a clutch. We had 5 speed manuals, with 2 speed transfer cases and learned how to split them. In AIT, they would take anyone aside, that never drove a clutch and teach them on an M-151 Jeep. I got to forgo that, as my first car was a 66 Mustang with a hopped up 289 and a four speed. My second car was a 66 Mercury Cyclone GT with a 390 and a four speed. I knew how to double clutch and shift without the clutch, before I joined the Army.

 

I don't know who spoiled rotten brat was working for, but anywhere I was required steel toed shoes. At my first company, the safety director would put a magnet next to rhe drivers' shoes to make sure that they were steel toed. If a pallet falls on your foot, steel toes make a difference between having crushed toes that will have to be amputated and broken toes that can be mended. I knew alot of guys that had pallets flip and fall on their feet.

 

I don't know who spoiled rotten brat was working for, but anywhere I was required steel toed shoes. At my first company, the safety director would put a magnet next to the drivers' shoes to make sure that they were steel toed. If a pallet falls on your foot, steel toes make a difference between having crushed toes that will have to be amputated and broken toes that can be mended. I knew alot of guys that had pallets flip and fall on their feet.