Bottom Feeders?

The companies are bottom feeders... and you're trolling.

 

The director of safety and recruiting for my company put it best. He said "All trucking companies f__king suck. Ours just happens to suck a little less than others." Truth from a recruiter; as rare as the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat.

 

C'mon, driving a truck isn't rocket science. Picking up a load in Portland and delivering it to Seattle isn't like wiring a custom home.

I wonder just how the generations of truck drivers beforevus made it without all this so-called professional training programs some are demanding these days?

As to the the comment someone made about insurance considerations being minimal in the decisions of smaller companies not hiring less experienced drivers, I can tell you for a fact that insurance requirements are a major reason they don't.

I worked on the inside of a smaller company wearing different hats. There were many guys I recommended for hire who were denied on the basis of lack of experience according to our insurance carrier.

 

Really? Have you been a reader of this forum for very long? Have you not seen all the pictures and stories posted that make you say "WTF?" and noticed most of these were commanded by employees of a "mega training company".

We can repost these if you'd like to be brought up to speed on the apparent complexity of today's truck-trailer combination.

 

Not at all. But the quality of the training could be better. Also, they lie and put people into trucks without the skills to be successful.

Everyone doesn't have the ability to drive.

 

That's one of the reasons I never fool with someone's equipment and think it's the most chicken #### thing to do to a driver.

There are lots of hoopties that worked for a mega, crashed or flipped out for whatever reason, and will mess with someone's equipment because they failed.

I hate mega's. I mean I really hate mega's.

But I always give a driver the benefit of the doubt, until he can't hold his lane, or has to use his brights all the time, because it could be somebody with a future as a trucker, just needing a place to start.
Mega's have some talented drivers. They just have a lot of hoopties that are nothing but steering wheel holders.
What's worse is the hoopties get the easiest runs cause they are the hardest to F/U !!!!!!!

The people in operations in a mega are pimps. Plain & simple. Guess who the b@#$h is?

 

I've witnessed and processed in safety and compliance some of the most stupid rookie mistakes a driver can make. Only they were by drivers with many years of driving experience.

Believe me, training has it's limitations. I was also a trainer. Driving a truck is mostly about using common sense. A guy or gal either has it, or they don't.

 

And intimidate, threaten to fire, telling how they will become unhireable and verbally abuse the rookie for making a rookie backing mistake. Like what happened to me at May Trucking. Nothing went on my record, no damages to other property, no injuries, no police record, self-damages repairable within a week, and other trucking companies I applied to did not care about the backing incident at all. I just don't understand why he went all ####### more than what is necessary. I think he is a ####### and a bully and is on a powertrip.

 

Many of the mega-companies are bottom feeders; they manipulate, coerce, intimidate, etc., drivers. There are worse companies too; the Chicago white Volvo crowd, many "second chance" companies, some small fleets, etc. And, yes, companies that engage in those activities are scum, dirt, etc.

Most of the drivers for the aforementioned companies are honest, decent people. Some of those are just too new or intimidated to not be taken advantage of... and some are not. Your trolling is when you keep trying to "put words in the mouths" of posters that they are not saying.