How to get fired in trucking?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Thull, Jul 2, 2016.

  1. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Basically anything we did 10 years that would get you driver of the month will now get you fired .
     
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  3. BUMBACLADWAR

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    Hello..I took out a light next to an alley and an underground parking lot.Went in talked to the armed guard didnt think anybody knew.Hour later call from VP of my company"did you hit something at.......Well yes,but it was just a rusty ole light (higher than my side mirrors could show) backing up a hill (alley) right next to an underground parking g lot.Sucker stuck out about 3 feet (never seen it) was trying to favor the drivers side of the wall to make sharp turn at the top of the alley.Net result:had to pay $358 for it but,didn't get Fired.Banned from premises.They replaced a $50 light with a $358 light.Our dispatcher was an old stoner and laughed his a.. off,when he saw the Video of me kicking glass off the alley and going in and making the copy paper delivery like normal.Live and learn
     
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  4. Wooly Rhino

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    Just remember that any damage to the front of a truck was done by a deer and not that wall in front of the dock.
     
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  5. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Take tractor and vamanos. Or grab company car and vanish for the night carousing. Small stuff to start off. Those river boats sure come in handy back in the day.
     
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  6. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Trespassed too? You are lucky to be allowed to exist among us commoners after such abuse.

    I once had a particular desination of fruits not far from Harrisburg Airport off the pike but down two seperate two lane roads and one valley over. (No Im not kidding, those were the directions) Make a right at the end of the ridgetop.

    Unfortunately for me as I was making the final series of manuvering to get into it with the 4 ways going, I remembered that I was yelled at very badly in that exact place with another company two weeks prior.

    It was not long before it revealed itself that they have elephantine memories of my shadow. And a new bigger truck to boot. The quick series of drop and hooks stopped after a while. I think the suit got word to my dispatcher. I did not say a #### thing to the new company either.
     
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  7. Lepton1

    Lepton1 Road Train Member

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    I know EXACTLY what Thull is up to.

    He's trying to create another MONSTER thread with a simple question.

    Right turn, anyone? ;)
     
  8. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Tupping. Now there is a word from long ago. It's a good word. I once enjoyed some time with a company boss's daughter because we enjoyed the dinner dates back then. Ive wondered sometimes about that. But hey, we were young then.
     
  9. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Had a Pam rip off my front end in Katy 76 there one quiet evening trying to get out of the space next to mine with his trailer tandems and me inside it.
     
  10. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    I was beginning to wonder.

    Internet is not always the best way to spend any kind of time trying to help or be helped by others via sharing of information when People want to sit and either play around with it fooling me and others or waste time.
     
  11. DustyRoad

    DustyRoad Road Train Member

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    Ever heard of the term insubordination.....

    refusing a load
    refusing to answer the phone
    refusing to comply to company policy.

    The fed give you three strikes and the Company can Fire at will.....taking you out like the garbage.
     
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