Well that blew up in my face really good.

Okay, I guess my point wasn't obvious.

One time I went to do a tug test. The legs were up and the red button was out (no air to trailer) and the trailer rolled right out. No brakes at all!

So of course I wrote it up and got it put OOS. (Also had a bad wheel bearing they found while repairing the brakes)

 

UPDATE: I took the first job to come along. Looks like a good thing I did too, my first week on the job I kept coming home to rejection letters and calls.

It's even easier work than the last, but now I'm hearing from a co-worker that the reason they couldn't fill the job was it was (basicly) part-time.

I was told it was a full time job. So now I'm waiting to see what my 1st check is like.

I have two options:

1.) find another job and work both
2.) find another job and leave for better pay.

 

Had dinner with a rep from my old job. They want me back with more pay (but about what I'm making now, probably with more hours though)

Unemployment must have tipped them off that I was fired from my "new" job (which is now my prior job since I have a "new-new" job)

Since I'm also talking with guys that have left I've heard a lot of gossip about what was going on in various situations.

The whole shebang seems like a mess right now. I think for right now I'm gonna stay with the "new-new" job and look into a part time day job for spending cash.

Also the department of unemployment keeps referring me to "jobs I may be qualified for". But how many times can I tell them "no, OTR with USX, JBH, & Swift won't work for me,,,"!

 

Elmo: I've been driving for about 10 years.

The first one was a rookie mistake. The 2nd one was a "missfire" (the jaws closed but not on the 5th wheel) both were "oh #### moments" both happened when I was at the same place for a long time. None have ever hit the ground, they've all come to rest on the frame and rear wheels.

I've also:
1.) missed the pin entirely (trailer too high)
2.) gotten stuck in the mud
3.) crossed my E&S lines and spent an hour looking for an airleak when it was a stupid error on my part.
4.) caught a trailer on a low clearance section (this is really due to the company property and blindly doing what I was told. After I screwed up the boss agreed that we wouldn't be able to put trailers in that part of the property we're talking serious off roading here )

All of this was "on private property" and was viewed by my boss as no-harm/no foul. As there was no damage to any of the trailers (or they were so old and ratty, what's another scratch?)

Never had a trailer drop on the open road (thank god) and believe me I visually inspect EVERY hook up since the accident.

I'm not saying I didn't #### up, I'm pretty sure I assumed from the beginning it was "driver error", I'm raising the possibility (after reading the Fontaine recall article) that it COULD have been a mechanical issue and since I'm no longer there I can't investigate that possibility.

But please: since it isn't getting tired and old after 5 pages, how about all the perfect/flawless drivers tell me AGAIN how this would never happen to them because they are PERFECT.

 

Yeah, now for my next headache: I was supposed to get an ID badge from a "certain federal agency" for my new (current) job.

This "agency" seems to have misplaced it.

I can't say the name of this "agency" but it sounds like:

Slow profits
Toast cough fits
Most stall tricks