Two Avoidables in 2 Weeks

ooooh now I understand.

I was thinking 53's abused beyond reason with Jersey tandems.

 

I hit the back of someone’s trailer with the nose of mine getting into a tight space at a rest stop in my first year. I was going slow so I just tapped it. I was not paying attention to my right just my left.
I felt bad cause I woke the guy up, luckily he was understanding and no damage occurred. He was cool and I never told my company about it. If I had they would have taken my bonus regardless of the situation. Anyway it taught me a lesson I haven’t forgotten.

 

I had a reciever take a dislike one day and pointed my idiot self out along a particular exit. (OUT!!!)

At the bottom of the exit I was confronted with a 6 foot 4 foot deep flood control concrete that the trailer must turn and run over.

I went ahead and forced it, using all the horses to make it happen. KABOOM! Bounced it out of there. Thought I would tear that thing apart.

It goes without saying that I hid from my company leadership for about a month waiting for the dreaded call me message which means NOTHING GOOD.... It is fortunate that reciever did raise a little hell o n my account and I never had to go back. Ever.

 

Good post.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a HABIT.” - Aristotle

Many people get into the business to have a job. They go through the whole training thing and then when they get issued their own truck, they feel as if they have arrived. Any difficulties they have after this, they avoid. You hear it all the time...”I won’t go here. I won’t do this. I don’t drive at this time.

Because Jerry Rice was Jerry Rice, Joe Montana could be Joe Montana.

“Who is Jerry Rice, Six?”

In his day, the best receiver in football. And Joe Montana looked awesome because of him. Was Joe Montana the best quarterback? Well, Dan Marino, John Elway, Jim Kelly were just as good or better...but Montana has Jerry Rice.
But what if Jerry Rice had the same mentality as you see so many here have?

“Well, I’m not going over to the left side of the field. I got tackled and hurt in high school running on the left side of the field. I will not catch any passes farther than 25 yards. And I won’t play more than 30 minutes a game.”

There are two kinds of drivers: the A Game driver and the Slacker. The A Game driver’s habit is ALWAYS doing the very best job he can possibly do. Skills improve, the game improves. Continually. Until one day, your company tells everyone that YOU are Him. That top driver. The guy that makes the money that they advertise about in the ads. The Go-To Guy. You earn 1.5-2x more pay than the average driver at your company.

Some people think that because they are hourly, they should slack. Right, @MACK E-6 ? Or they’re Union. Either you’re doing your best, or you’re slacking. So, what is your habit? Which is easier to do...bring your A Game every time you play or bring that A Game only when the big game is on the line, and you’re down in the 4th quarter and the 2 minute warning has just sounded off?

 

Bad things happen fast when you are thinking of something else other than what you're doing.

Maybe you can set a goal to take corners with 6" to spare between the curb and the trailer tires. Every corner, so you will look in the mirror more and get in the habbit? Set goal and make it more challenging.

Try to do something better than you did the last time and it will keep you focused.

 

Get off the path of dustruction brother. Most companies will look at trends not one off’s; suppose it depends on the gravity of the incident too but yours don’t sound like they add up to that.

 

Obviously someone called because your actions caused someone else to possibly damage another’s trailer. Good thing you are getting out of this business and back to another you already have.
And good for you to know when to give up. Good luck on your other endeavors.

 

I’m still mad at my alma mater (MSU) for not going 20 miles southeast and recruiting him. Quite possibly the all time greatest possession receiver that ever played.

 

I know I used an example of football when referring to trucking, but the biggest difference between the majority of trucking companies and any football team other than the Cleveland Browns is football teams are searching for TALENT.

You have to pay for talent. Beancounters don't think that they should have to pay for talent, after all "it's just driving and you can train a monkey to drive." You can train a monkey to hold a steering wheel. If monkeys could be paid to drive, CR England would be investing in bananas.

"But if we could put the right sequence bells and whistles and cattleprods in the truck, and pay a college kid to monitor them (your driver manager...we used to have dispatchers but now there are PLANNERS) and give the kid a copy of 'Dispatching Dummies' by JJ Keller, perhaps the chimpanzees would be a viable option to the braindead humans that we currently employ."

JJ Keller, meet Jane Goodall.

It's actually amazing that, despite the deskjockey's belief that all are equal, the top drivers, even at a bonehead mega carrier that scours the country looking for braindeads to put in their cattleprod trucks, there are drivers that make 2x average. $75-80k a year. $80k. Is there a burger flipper making $80g first year?

Yes, there is.


Some of you guys are in BIG trouble.

 

Trailer A hits trailer B pushing it over into trailer C. The end result is no damage? I can't picture that. Shoot I'll just come out and say it: I ain't buying that line of BS.