Is it legitimate to charge people to back their trailer for them?

Yeah I've often wondered were people get this , because it's on private property I don't have to log it bs.

 

Thought you were getting a new so called mentor...

 

If I were a safety type person and have clear evidence that one of my company's drivers let another driver operate their equipment that driver has lost their job and I will do my best to list that driver as do not rehire. These company installed camera's is just part of it. Just about every trucker out there has smart phones. If you think a fellow driver won't drop a dime on you with photo evidence your a fool. Hell drivers from other carriers will send photo's in on you. I won't stab anybody in the back I will tell you up front. If I see a driver doing something stupid I will notify their company. I have done it in the past and will continue to do it in the future. The last time it was a driver that worked for a carrier that I have a friend that works in their safety dept on my cellphone contacts list and he had the video within minutes after the incident. The driver was later fired.

 

Not only other drivers will tell you on but the customer could as well.

 

Trust no one, young Luke!

 

Six weeks to become a Supertrucker at Swift? I know their all 'special' over at Swift, but I just didn't know how 'special' until now.

I have been doing this for 8 years without a preventable yet, but I am not so ####y yet that I will say some truck stop backs are unreasonable. Nor will I say that some backing situations don't get me worried. I guess I just got to flip a Swifty trainee a Hamilton just so I can have some piece of mind at my next truck stop back.

 

You can ask for money, but my guess is you will just start a fight. No matter how politely you offer or when, when you bring up money to poor people they go nuts.

 

It doesn't take but a few weeks of frequent backing to become better at backing than 90% of drivers. Those 90% spend 100% of their time trying to never, ever, no matter what back up. Apparently driving 100 or 200 miles forward & backing in 2-3 times per week they are experts.

 

You do not take advantage of people in need. Man Law.

Spot them, like Patty suggested.

 

To be fair, if they let a 6 week experienced swift driver back their truck in for them and are willing to pay, is it still breaking the Man Law? At a certain point they just deserve it.