Redrover, thats a helluva week. Glad to hear you made it out ok.
Did you ever wind up getting your HOS plan all worked out? And it looks like you were able to get on with swift rather than carolina cargo. Good for you.
What would do you in this situation?
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Why don't you move on from Swift??? I had been off the road over 11 years. Swift hired me easily, I did 6 months, got hosed all the time, then went to a great carrier with a guaranteed weekly pay package.
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I am not going to go down your whole shopping list of complaints, but all your problems fall into this exact same category; Things that you brought on to yourself.
A couple weeks ago you were bragging on what a great backer you were, and now?
Then your talking smack on how great a company Swift is. You can only fail if your a lazy ###; This week, it seems like failure found you in spades.Last edited: Feb 10, 2017
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Stop doing the headless chicken thing or your career will be short lived.Dave_in_AZ, sdaniel, TripleSix and 1 other person Thank this. -
I have to point out you should have learned from history. There was a woman. You should have slugged her and put her in your sleeper. She would have served as a source of heat and if all else failed a source of food. Kids these days. The Donner Party means nothing to them.
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@RedRover try to get in touch with @Moosetek13 , he can help you with Swift's ins and outs. I read over your post kinda quickly, sounds like you got two forced impossible dispatches in a row and will be getting two bogus service failures out of it along with some alleged preventable crashes.
Need to get picture and video evidence as quickly and preferably live as it is happening. Otherwise it is like all those other trucker stories "Yeah, umm I was swerving to avoid a headon collision and missed the car but flipped the truck over in the ditch, the car took off of course...."
I also gathered you may have improperly tried to slide your 5th wheel around. The proper procedure involves lowering the trailer landing gear first then dumping the tractor air suspension to get that weight off the 5th wheel. leave the 5th wheel locked and slide around gently.Lepton1, Moosetek13 and G13Tomcat Thank this. -
I had half a tank and kept being forced to shut down after a few hours of crawling up mountains for days in a row. Where would you suggest that I fuel? The loves with the line 2 miles(literally) long, or the mom and pop truck stop that was out of fuel? Or maybe drive 40 miles in the other direction to get fuel on the off chance that the situation isn't as bleak there and if it is I have just completely screwed myself?
Short of someone sending a fuel truck to me, there was no getting fuel. It was on the other side of that pass. By the time I'm at the top of the pass, then my fuel situation was at emergency levels. It's not like I just set off with no fuel and said #### it let me see how far I can get. There was nothing to be had. I already had to drive 30 plus miles out of the way to scale a load because people were actually parked on and all around the scales out of hours or snowed in.
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@scottied67 did you ever get back into a manual? God I dunno what i'd do without slammin my super10 in his sitch. Thank GOD the gentleman I drive for has older Petes, yeah longs.... and the gears. Couldn't imagine what this kid coulda done in an auto, anymore than he tried. The stupid MANUALS even say "don't hit the gas when backing up" ....... LoL. @RedRover i feel for you, man. Been reading it all. Just #####.
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