Not hired because I was on my phone during training/unloading

I've seen a lot of guys go into the cab or elsewhere when pumping product off.. it's idiotic.. but this along with loads of other issues "will never happen to me".

 

In all my years the only time I saw a really bad thing happen from inattention while pumping/blowing off a tanker was at a ready mix plant about 3 in the morning. The dead tired driver hooked his portland cement tanker to the hose going into the batch plant got into his truck and promptly fell asleep. Normally this would not have been a problem. However this day it was. Because a large pour was canceled and nobody corrected the tanker driver he was putting portland into an already almost full silo. Yes, it was dark and because the driver was inside his running tractor with the AC on asleep he did not see his load blowing out of the top of that silo and it covered everything downwind with tons of portland cement. If my memory is correct that tanker normally held close to 44 thousand pounds of cement. It was a total loss and the owner had a huge clean up bill as well. So yes I consider anything that causes inattention unloading like this to be a MAJOR safety hazard.

 

Broke the cardinal rule of knowing the levels and confirming them with someone who works there before even hooking up the hoses. I had to sit at a chemical plant for 24 hours hooked up to their tanks because the plant personnel decided to start unloading me before checking anything. Luckily then, I was prepared to sit .. Food, Drink, Playstation, etc etc. Gasoline was probably the trickiest stuff I hauled for that stuff as when the price was about to go up, the stations would order deliveries that just would not fit under the 90% levels.. stacking gas sucks!

 

They have no way of knowing, there isn't some database of work history that the company can check. I lied on my application to 3 different megas and they never knew any different

 

So am I to understand that you are proud of the FACT that you are a known liar? Since you are now a known liar how do we know your post is not a lie? (click)

 

How proud you must be.. and some people STILL wonder why drivers are viewed as low life garbage by the general public AND or why no one gives anyone the benefit of the doubt anymore. ..

 

Yes that crap could have been handled better. However at 3 in the morning last word you got was blow the load off your not going to confirm anything. That company had 5 batch plants at the time. There was a man that was in charge of all the cement loads and making sure the aggregates were in the plants. My understanding was he said he could not get in touch with the driver. However that box at the base of the silo could have been padlocked. The man just went home. Office politics being what it is the driver was assigned the blame and fired.

 

Op, do you happen to haul milk too?

 

The driver was out of work maybe a day. He landed a job with Florida Rock then moved on to a great job hauling ammonia. Last time I spoke to chet he told me he had spin off his 2nd wife was living with a 3 lady happy as a clam making around 90K a year. He did OK.