Not OK to take a passenger with a year of experience?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by bertita1986, Apr 5, 2018.

  1. bertita1986

    bertita1986 Light Load Member

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    I contacted a couple smallish companies 30-50 trucks. They told me if I wanted to take my wife with me I'd have to earn the "right" by going solo for at least 2 months.

    Excuse me?! What is this garbage?

    The company I've been working at for the past year told me the same thing, but that was because I was brand new to trucking, and I totally expected it.

    After a year safe OTR experience though, I've found companies telling me I need to separate from my wife for months! What is it with this industry and its cult of loneliness?!

    Are all companies like this or do some let you take the spouse from day one? If not I guess I'm pretty much stuck at the company I'm at.
     
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  3. CrappieJunkie

    CrappieJunkie Wishin' I was fishin'

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    Almost every company has that policy in place. Even for veteran drivers. I left Shaffer to seek greener grass. Had 6 months experience, very few would let her ridge day 1.
     
  4. Hoofbeats

    Hoofbeats Road Train Member

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    You're lucky it's only two months and not three which is 90 days. Most companies have a probation period.
     
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  5. bertita1986

    bertita1986 Light Load Member

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    2 months was a minimum. The recruiter said 6 months at first.
     
  6. bertita1986

    bertita1986 Light Load Member

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    Do you recall any that allowed her from day one?
     
  7. Jazz1

    Jazz1 Road Train Member

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    Companies are begging for warm bodies. Seems odd there would be any issue with bringing along a wife, GF or both from day one. I got passenger waiver along with keys and fuel card when hired
     
  8. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    Is it unreasonable that a company would want to find out what kind of driver you are before they allow a passenger?

    This whole "Excuse me?! What is this garbage?" crap is just that. Crap!

    You are NOT entitled to simply do as you please.
    Where does that mindset come from, exactly?

    Yes. You must EARN it.
    You have no RIGHT until it is given to you.
    And there is no God given right to have a passenger with you. That is a privilege that you must earn.

    In fact, there is only one (singular) God given right.
    That is the right to choose, of your own free will, that which you will do.
     
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  9. RET423

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    I have driven for 2 companies that had "no riders" as a policy, I ignored the policy at both places so my kids could take turns going with me during summer break.

    Both companies said "that is against the rules" and I said "so is 90 percent of what I do everyday", they both just laughed but that was a different time for sure.
     
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  10. misterG

    misterG Road Train Member

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    Its their company, their rules. You wan't the job. You live by those rules.

    AND, Even at a year, you still don't know anything.
    Let alone the 16 years I'll have in June. And I've never had a passenger who wasn't a coworker.
     
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  11. bertita1986

    bertita1986 Light Load Member

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    I don't want the job. I guess I didn't make that clear enough in my first post. The wife rides or I walk. That's the first rule. It's my life. My rules.
     
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