ATS Lease Program?

Running the light is on the driver. Never a good idea to run a light; especially if you are a 185 feet long...

 

Raining, 185 feet long, and followed the pilot through the red light? Going to fast for conditions? If the pilot car drove off the road, would you follow it? Good thing somebody else wasn't crossing the intersection.

 

I believe theres more to this story than "the pilot car led me through the redlight!"

 

Agreed! Seems like something else is missing. Then again if my memory serves me correctly if you get a moving violation under permit, you can have your permit revoked. That in and of itself may have been the driving factor with the termination.

 

Often you will lose your permit. A trooper or DOT might just tear it up on the spot, park you then tell you to get another, which may take days.

Another thing to consider is that sometimes, when you're that long (and I've hauled the longest blades there are right now, and I'm "only" 175') when you start through a light that just turned yellow, and you're just putting through a town, you might not be all the way through it by the time it turns red.

I don't know of anyone ever being ticketed for such a thing, and I hope to never tell the story from my own experience, but I can imagine it happening with a cop in a bad mood.

 

It all depends on how much experience you have that is verifiable. There is one driver in my orientation class that stayed behind and took a test for Class One. Yes, there is a test and you have to pass it.

 

Thankya big time!

My biggest challenge will be learning the blade trailers they use. The company I'm at now uses steerable stretch flats, and we can get three guys ready to go in 30 minutes, whereas I've had to wait HOURS behind ATS guys while they figure out their Trail Kings.

Thanks for the quick answer!

 

I do not know if its changed from when I was there but everybody started at the bottom(unless you were super heavy haul and/or had your own 4 axle , and at that time they only had a handful company two o/o for that division) but if you had experience like when the trism guys came over, you were moved up quickly, also it depended on what trailer you had and what loads were available

 

Ive always wondered what the training was like to haul the big blades(oversized loads in general). is it basically a company course or can you get it at certain schools

 

I worked for ATS for 5 years. They just try you out on easier stuff and see if you screw things up. There is no course. It is all common sense. They give you some interviews and tests to see if you are up to the challenge when they move you up to class 1. They have a class system 1-4. 1 being the biggest loads and 1a means you are permanent heavy haul with a 4 axle or a 3 axle with a California type heavy haul trailer.