US Xpress Driver Hits Building.. Tears Up Trailer .. on His 1st Day Out

Shhhh... don't tell the truck.
The truck may end up running away, trucks are tough but sensitive.

 

I know yall are hard on new folks coming into the field but we are not all dummies. I agree some folks do not need to be on the road for sure. 80 thousands pounds is a lot of weight to be running round at 60mph. Im still in training but stride to be pro at what ever I do in life, especially when it come to putting myself and other folks life in danger. I have driven drit track racing, fast street cars and 40ton dump trucks 1000ft under ground and now Im going to drive a peterbuilt (at least I hope to get into a peterbuilt lol). My point is please don't stereotype the whole over a few. However I agree with some of it, Im in a training school now been there a week, there are 16 students in my class and 14 of them are contract for CRST, me and another guy are open to choice where we want to apply. Im sorry to say that most seem to have never driven a car much less a big rig. Now the fact is I have never sit my ### in one either until Friday but I been round long enough to understand that it is not a toy truck it is a big boy rig with 450hp and very dangerous in the wrong hands. My goal is easy be safe don't be dead. LOL

 

Sounds like you have a decent head on your shoulders. Every one of us was a noob at one point. The crap getting handed out to you and other rookies we all had to go through. Don't take it personal. Call it a right of passage and take it with a grain of salt.

That being said, I have to defend my fellow drivers that have been in the business for years and sometimes decades. We, as a whole, see these companies pushing students through like cookies on a conveyor belt. We see companies that take 2 drivers with no experience whatsoever and throw them in a truck together to train each other. We see companies that turn loose drivers that can't get around a building on their first trip out alone. We see all kinds of crap out on the roads and at shippers and receivers and especially truck stops that 10 years ago we wouldn't have thought was possible. So, yeah. There are going to be stereotypes. There are going to be the "You drive for who? Oh, you're a loser" comments. Etc. And it's only going to get worse.

 

I understand that for sure until your proven you going to take some heat, lol. It that way in every field I ever worked in I do not take it personally. This forum has been very helpful for me to meet and greet with yall guys that been around awhile. I know Im very new to forum and driving a rig, I just hope to find a decent place to work, be a good courteous safe driver and make some money. I can take the hazing its all part of the fun. lol

 

Do your job to the best of your abilities and follow the rules. You'll be fine. The industry could use more guys like you.

 

I'll put more blame on the new guy than his trainer. If you aren't comfortable with going solo, it is your responsibility to speak up and say something to your employer. I'm not sure about USX, but I know for a fact that most training companies have no problems extending training.

Furthermore, being new doesn't give you an excuse to not check your mirrors.

Yes we were all new one time.

 

40 ton = witch ton.

80,000(short ton) or 88,000(long ton)

 

Great! Now I have to update my notes. I had it as 93,000.

 

Or was that Canadian pounds?

 

I always thought it was 120,000 lbs. that would explain all the overweight tickets.