Would not give Cypress Truck Lines the time of day

I will come to cypress defense. This is a family run business and the trashed trucks you see on the road are from dirtbag drivers who will not take care of the equipment because they didn't pay for it. Now, if it was one of my trucks you rolled and blamed everybody but yourself, I would have called you personally to tell you " your fire" accidents happen all the time but your job as a pro driver is to maintain a safe speed safe distance regardless of the weather. Roll overs are immediate termination

 

Sounds like the op was going too fast for road conditions.But Cypress could have told him right away hes fired rather then let him wait ,worry and wonder his fate for 10 days,that was very wrong on their part.

 

Fat drivers, could put you over, on your drivers,

 

was just looking at this company, altho they seem to post multiple times a day in florida on craigslist, which would make me think they have a hard time getting drivers....

 

That's how it rolled over in the ditch

 

I was down there during that storm.

Those of us who had the common sense to park once the stuff started coming down rolled on the next day. Those who didn't ended up in the ditch or median. There were at least 100 trucks / 4 wheelers wrecked between Birmingham and the ms line the next morning.

Not like this storm wasn't forecast. Everybody knew it was coming for at least 2 days and that it would be bad. Checking the weather is part of good trip planning.

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. Especially when they've been calling the forecast for 48hrs+ No load is that important. Shut it down and live to drive another day.

 

Ive shut down many times during a storm.Its not worth trying to tackle it becauseyou're not going to get the miles anyway,why not park it till more favorable conditions.

 

That is because of the horrible way they treat their drivers. My first job as a new CDL holder was with Cypress, and after "training" for basically no pay, I was assigned to a truck that had exhaust fumes in the cab. They refused to put me in a different truck.

"You have to EARN the right to a better truck," they said. "You don't get a nice truck until you pay your dues here."

My reply: "I don't have to earn the right to a SAFE truck, that is my right now. I don't care if it's new and pretty. Just give me one that doesn't threaten to suffocate me!"

They wouldn't budge and neither would I. So, after training, I was done.

That's actually the way they want it, I think. They work new guys to death tarping and chaining and stuff for basically nothing, then send them away for a fresh crop of new slave laborers.

 

This is not even for the OP as they have probably never returned... but for the sake of discussion and information.
I have had some knock down drag outs with some recruiter from Cypress years ago... I will not address what I think of the company.. the OP was just completely clueless and or kidding himself..
1. the "truck" didn't go out of control all by itself
2. missing all of the cars, trucks etc was luck... as the truck was out of control
3. you rolled a truck
4. Sheet rock is garbage.. that doesn't remotely stand up to damage
5. to right a tractor trailer.. almost always it has to be unloaded... and since sheetrock is not worth anything after its damaged, wet and laying in a median of a highway... yeah.. forget pretending that it was salvageable or undamaged.