Quitting under a load??

I’ve been around! I’m good thanks!

 

People seem to think all their knowledge was given upon you have your CDL, become expert backer,driver endless knowledge. No one has the last one knowledge comes from inquiring the info one way or another since the info we mostly look for doesn't come to a book it is from a person, rather from these forums or mentor,trainer or a person you met at a truck stop or fellow driver in your company, relative. some drivers are horrible.
They don't deserve there CDL same can be said about the average driver driving a bunch of kids like a dumbarse. You either start as a sponge or do you best or last but not least the one we hate have there set ways and a closed mind unwilling to pick up on things to do and not to do. This is a trade skill not like welding or being a mechanic most info in a book. Plus we gotta put up with the carrier, shippers, and police trying there best to ruin your day, week, year. If you don't stay on your toes you either end your career or go to jail or best both.

 

i once drove a truck, from rockport, ME, to Seekonk, MA (the company terminal) and parked it, cleaned it out, and went home.

so 26 miles, would be a cake walk for me.

 

This is why the most important item in a job search is "do you know a driver working at the company now? And have you talked to him recently". You cannot trust ads and internet searches are not enough.

 

One of our competitors had off-road logging trucks. He had a driver that made one trip, came in the office and said "I can't steer it, I can't stop it, and it wants to fall over every time I go around a corner. I quit".
They kept him on though...gave him a water truck to drive. Sometimes you have to match the man with the right equipment.

 

I wouldn’t have even got in the truck for $750 a week. Piss on that.

 

Well, did you end up quitting and finding another job?

 

Honestly, I don't always see eye-to-eye with @bzinger , but I think that is pretty #### good advice. It's 10x better than quitting under dispatch or abandoning a truck/load.

I worked in the office while recovering from my surgery and any DAC or verification that said "Abandoned Truck/Load/Equip" was an automatic "DENIED" for 60 months from the date of the offense. Insurance won't cover them, companies don't want that to happen to them.

And I understand that sometimes some companies make you feel like you have no other choice, but YOU, as the driver, have to take the high road. Its YOUR future and YOUR work history that will be damaged, not theirs. You'll just be another driver saying how bad of a company they are, and they will go on with their lives.
You, on the other hand will get stuck working for some crappy company because the legit ones won't touch you, and your NEW Fly-By-Night Carrier will probably put you in the same situation, and the vicious cycle starts...

 

Ask "TheJrodTest" if you don't believe it. He got super-perma-hella banned for trying to help get one of our drivers home, so you actually can't ask him. I heard it came down to him being a known recruiter, and posting something about helping a driver he was ipso facto recruiting.

I could have told him he'd be better off just pretending he was a driver. I haven't seen him in awhile, is he still working there?

 

Basically, once you pee in a cup its on your record forever (3-7 years) for all legit companies. Even if they don't subscribe to DAC, your DOT mandated Drug & Alcohol Test record is out there. Companies are required to collect ALL Drug and Alcohol testing results from the last 36 months when they hire a driver. If they don't, they can be exposed to lawsuits and are in violation of DOT regulations if they were to get audited. Most aren't willing to take that chance on a driver.

Also - If you get a DOT inspection while driving their truck, it will show up on your PSP.

Also - If you have an accident where any police were called with that company, there will be a record of it.

Also - If you get any kind of citation, moving violation or warning while driving for that company, there will be a record of it.

Also - its been a few years, but I'm pretty sure that if you had ever put that company on a TenStreet Application, and signed it saying "I swear this is an accurate application", even if you delete it later, it will always show up to the recruiter as something like "At one time Driver X had listed Company Y as his employer on these dates, you may want to double check their records."

But - you can still get away with it sometimes if it was a shady company that already doesn't follow the rules, doesn't subscribe to DAC and dodges all the scales.

It's just that... at the end of the day - it's your work history, own it. If they don't want to hire you because of your work history, probably someone else will.