Suicidal trucker

Has he been drug tested?

Get the company to have him get a health evaluation, if he doesn't, then fire him for not getting one and put that on his DAC.

 

Yikes, If you think he'd hurt someone else, then get him off the road somehow...Is he that unstable?

If he'd likely take himself out only, I wouldnt sweat it as much...Lots of messed up people around with messed up lives..Some of us cowboy thru it, some of us are wussies, no big deal...

3 attempts? a bit of a joke...c'mon dood kill yerself already...help aint comin
(was my first thought)....

Get him a fricken puppy (was my second thought)

 

Depression = Anger turned inwards
Arises out of a belief in deprivation.
Mess can go back to early childhood.

Its been my experience that
Angry/attention seeking people
suck energy from others around them.
They don't want to get 'well'
They want to be right or get even

I avoid psycho angry people

 

He sounds like a real screw-up. Can't even do that right, lol.
Seriously, it sounds like a sympathy ploy.

 

We had a fellow that was new to trucking, seemed to be progressing alright. One night he phones the boss, says he's going to shoot himself, send his final pay check to his mother, definitely not his girlfriend.
Next morning the mother phones says he did it. Two days later the girlfriend calls looking for the pay check.
Up to that time he seemed like normal guy, your fellow may just be a drama queen. But he needs some kind of intervention before you all wind up on the nightly news.

 

Suggest he move into management; there is high demand for dispatchers and who better to dispatch than a borderline psycho former driver.

 

Oh my God, just when I think I've read the last of the outlandish posts, I read yours. It's funny but your prolly right, will be staying on the alert for them type of dispatachers, oh wait our night shift dispatchers qualify, I avoid the night ones like a plague. Lol

 

If this is true, he has zero business being behind the wheel of any vehicle! Management should have him idle and require an evaluation at the very least. Chances are his CDL would be revoked, or at least suspended, after the evaluation.

I would contact DMV and DOT with your concerns, after speaking to safety and HR first. You may want to remind them that you are reporting anonymously and that they a responsibility to see that it stays that way.

 

Anyone that attempts suicide wants attention for a problem they can't man up to, and ask for assistance. It says in the Bible; " Boast of your weakness. " " Except your weakness."

Somebody else said don't take life too serious or you'll never get out alive.

I know if I wanted to commit suicide I'd put a hydroshock in my melon and that would be that.

You should take him by a children's hospital, and show him some people with real problems, then tell him to fish or cut bait.