Realizing how shady the entire industry is out there...

I’ll make a long story short.

Finally get in with small mom and pop mid to small size company. About 230 truck, everyone knows everyone.

Go out with trainer. Week one is good. I burn up 3580 miles while trailer sits up front the entire time. I sleep on non moving truck. Life is good. Trainer a bit abrasive and barks out orders when I’m going to do them a second later or already have, but ok, nobody’s perfect.

Get into second week. Company switches to new ELD and guess who they’re experimenting on? Yep, me. Trying every way possible they can think of to mask movement etc. doesn’t work, the system warns, red flags and evrualoy shuts me out. Trainer handling my logs entirely.

If that’s not bad enough, we are driving along I tell my trainer I got 40 minutes left on my 14 hour. I ask how much longer until we stop (he doesn’t use GPS) he looks at me and says “oh it’s another 80-85 miles, we ain’t gonna make it. We are stuck in traffic too. You’ll just have to take a violation hit, it is what it is.” I respond, “well can’t we pull off and find a warehouse district, (I point to some) he laughs, “no we have to get to the truck stop” I point to some other trucks pulled off curtains drawn at apullout, “look, we are going to stop where we planned, I do no sleeping on the side of the road etc, we will just report it as stuck in traffic looking for a safe haven.” Then I ask why don’t you drive? “Oh I’ve on duty as long as you have I have no time left either” I’m thinking well this is all on you, youbget over here and drive and take the hit. I end up going over 56 minutes.

Here’s the thing. This guy is family to this company. Isn’t gonna be no going over his head. They’d tell me to park my #### and hit the road. I’m tired of this #### ####. I went into trucking with noble hard ethical intentions. I had urges to stop the truck when it showed 3 minutes and just refuse to drive but I’d be back to square one looking for a third company.

I guess maybe I should just get a mean nasty attorney and start suing all these filthy shady companies and retire! They deserve it. I’m
Pissed!

So what does this do to my record? Remember I’m brand new too.

 

Are you kidding? Lol

 

First I don’t want to sue anyone. I want to drive a truck. I expect a company to do their part and I do mine, I now have two marks on my record and a direct result of total disregard and negligence by a company. I am a new driver. I drive #### good too. I may be railroaded right out of an industry I spent a year preparing for because companies operate illegally or do what’s right.

Your darn skippy that’s a lawsuit! Do I want to sue? Hell no! I want to be given a fair chance!

 

Fair enough response. But what’s the outcome from this violation? How serious is it?