It's funny when new guys with my same company meet at a shipper

Lol, me too. It's always one of the lunch counter blow hard types wanting to make sure I'm doing it right.I just keep quiet and listen. It always a story about how some other driver really screwed it up and blah blah blah.

The old hands that know their stuff don't do it that way, they say it with a head nod or shake, if they see that you got the hint and need help they will come over.

 

Most of the guys I meet are helpful and nice, maybe you're at the wrong place. :shrug:

 

Thats fine and well. They're just enthusiastic about doing what they're doing and maybe coming off a little wrong about it. Ive been driving for about 5 years myself, not with the same company I'm sorry to say, but at 5 years in I know I'm not really in a position to cop an attitude over stuff like this. That's roughly the equivalent of the sophomores picking on the freshmen in high school.

 

Meet a new driver @ work today. Had never drove dump truck. Told him if he wanted a few pointers I'd help him out. He said thanks none of the drivers would even talk to him. I said well ya know everyone was green when they started out.

 

Seems like a lot of us, myself included, sometimes forget we were all new guys at one time.