Is there anyone who'll hire me with three accidents on my record that are a year old?

During the course of these accidents did you ever get out and look? If the answer is no you might want to start. If the answer is yes then trucking just might not be for you.

 

Did all those at Werner go on your record?

I mean I've scraped up a trailer a few times at my previous job but everyone did doing what we did. It was bound to happen. As long as you didn't cause property damage they didn't get mad.

I would find out for sure what your record looks like before you go telling people about them.

 

How old are you?

 

Difference between incidents and accidents. Accidents on MVR meaning you wreck a car, got a ticket for hitting something etc. incidents happen within the company I.e. Fender bender, scratched a trailer, on private property etc. Yes you can get hired cause MVR = Insurance rates for companies. Having 0 accidents on the street is the big key to getting a job. If you get a accident on the street get ticketed then your screwed.

Having incidents though will screw you out of good jobs so you can't be picky anymore.

 

First accident why don't you park at werner terminal in allentown.easton is no place to park truck

 

I have to say at least you called Werner up and had the good sense to try and get your self off the account.
I have to give you credit for that, I really do. You knew it wasn't working out and tried the best you could to get out of it.

Uhh, normally I don't play this card, but if they weren't going to play ball the next question would have been, to start looking for other avenues of employment, being new though is tough and there's no real easy answer because no matter where you work the learning curve is going to be steep. I've only worked one other place besides the place that I'm at now and neither place I enjoyed the learning curve in the beginning very much.

The thing that puzzles me though is you got through training and made it out on your own which means you must have had some clue as to what you were doing, and where I'm going with this is, your east coast there's pleanty of options out there, if I was you I would have looked at how much money I had in the bank and this is why (I know I know some people simply can't do this) but this is why it is important to have a few bucks in the bank. Also a really go idea not to have illegitimate kids and stuff like that etc etc.

Where I am going with this is, if you say had $5K in the bank you could have like quit Werner before something bad happened. Went home ran over to the LTL terminals filled out applications or maybe ran over to Coke and Pepsi or some of the beer companies and started a little easier, and worked your way up. The LTL companies not all , but some really do train newer guys and there training is going to be a tid bit better then what you are going to get at some of the big truck load carriers. You wouldn't have to worry about where to park your truck or truck stops.

You might have to go to the occasional Family Dollar with an LTL company, but not that it's easier, but after some time you'll find that driving a day cab with a single axle and a 45-48' trailer is a little more manageable. If you had to go to a Family Dollar in a 28' trailer and a single axle day cab you would be amazed at how you suddenly have more options.

However some LTL stops are hard your backing in off the street with traffic whizzing by not always easy.

I don't know, I've talked to people over the years who have tried trucking and it didn't quite work out for them. Problem is, you can't really have "bad days" I mean you can have a bad day where the route is stupid and paper work is screwed up, but when it comes to accidents and stuff you can't really just call it a "bad day" and be done with it. It doesn't work like that.

My opinion go to welding school and I'm not saying that to be mean, trucking is one of those things where either you want it or you don't and a lot of people get into it thinking it's going to be easy or whatever and it eats them up and chews them out. A couple bad experiences like you had and that can get to a person.

 

First, you need to stop snitching on yourself. That stuff isn't on your MVR, so you're still hirable somewhere. Werner will probably document those minor incidents on your DAC report, so just own up to it and say "Yes, I bumped a couple of things, but no major damages."
From now on quit reporting every little detail in your life. Don't list those things as accidents or you'll never find another job. Just say you left Werner due to a couple of minor backing incidents when asked.
Try these:
TransAm
USA Truck
Carolina Cargo
Carolina Logistics

 

The tree is easily fixed. A couple dollars here and there done. The smashing of buildings and docks is something on you for not getting out and look. You did get out and look right? I hope you did. If you did you wont have had these smashed buildings.

There is no such thing as a bad day. A bad day is a truly baaaad day. Ive had a couple of those. The kind in which it would have been way better to be staying in bed and never showing up anywhere for work that day. Much less driving a big truck. A couple times Ive quit companies when they do not listen to what I have to say to them over a problem that wont quit. Pat me on the head and say sorry. You are stuck. No sir, you need to find another driver, Im not stuck.

I hope you have savings to fall back on to get through these times. Im not sure what your age is but if you are a young one These little problems can go away on your own. One by getting out and look as you carefully back. Better three times walking back there to look than to spend 3 minutes carefully smashing a dock. And you don't need to call home to mommy for every little scrape.

One other thing. You picked up trailer with preexisting damage. Why did you not report the defects on the pretrip and have the shop do it. They can find the previous lout that damaged the trailer before you. But nope... you're it. You did it despite your protests. That pretrip prior to hooking on the trailer and discovery of the defect bashed by the other driver documented and turned in for repair would have saved you from being the fall guy.

Im not your enemy. But your initial posts show problems which can be solved in the future by doing the things Im telling you to do. Trucking companies are not mommies that can wipe your boo boo and make your problems go away. They will add up the cost accumulating on your breaking buildings and say ok, enough you are fired.

And you wonder why no one else will hire you for a while. Check your PSP Score, DAC and probably the CSA if there is one. Pay the 20 dollars or so to run a employment background check on yourself. You would understand who says what where and when. Then you can proceed to slowly make it right.

Talking to your family? That's nice. But they cannot help you. Is there a trucker inside that family? I hope so. Otherwise it's a waste. You cannot talk problems in the trucking industry with people who know nothing about it. They will pat you on the head and think you are something special needing a state workshop program or something.

It's not the end of the world. You have a whole lifetime of this. Then again....