Goodbye all!

Dang, if I was a company Driver that lived in Michigan, I'd say this sounds like a pretty good gig!
The Round-trip runs every week.
https://www.indeed.com/#42627a0ecf48dee4

 

welp we tried

 

Once you get away from the megas it’s a lot of beyond great companies out there

 

I want to say something about this thread and this OP. I want to remind EVERYBODY we are NOT hearing both sides to this story. I am also very much sensitive to seizures because I have epilepsy and it was the original reason I was forced off the road and eventually forced to stop all driving and give up my driver's license. This OP has not been a member here a year yet. There are other carriers out there that are far superior to Pam! Pam is a trash carrier that I would not recommend my worse enemy to go drive for. My main issue with Pam is they screwed over some office people I have known for years.

This comment, however, is what has set me off.

This comment tells me all I need to know about this OP. Also, I will add that I am not some internet lightweight. I have extensive experience with both coding websites and running them. I am still today an IRCOP on three IRC chat servers. I also resigned from several forums as staff because I just could not give the forum owner the reliability they deserved because of MY medical problems. I bring this up because there is one thing I have seen over and over again and when I see it I wince. These goodbye threads just like this one. Internet forum communities are full of them.

This is my message to this OP. I will not blow sunshine up your rear. ALL OTR drivers especially those with small children are taking a serious chance when it comes to emergencies at home. I have helped several get home because of this issue. I also have enough experience with seizures to know that the event is short and over within no more than an hour. Things that can trigger or cause a seizure are for the most part already known well before a driver leaves their home. This is what I think! I think you panicked when you learned of this child's seizure. Then got angry once you realized PAM was not going to stop operations and kowtow to you! Now you have a chip on your shoulder about the entire industry.

If this is the way you are going to conduct yourself, you seriously need to go back to cooking. This industry does NOT need you that bad!

 

this is so very true, wish i had said it myself.

once a job of an OTR driver is taken, or even regional or local, or dedicated (like mine were) most certainly things at home will go crazy.

my question would be, "what if the o/p was already working near his home, (maybe at whatever eatery he was employed at) and this happened, and due to say bad weather or an accident blocking the roads, and he could not get home or to the hospital, would he hate that other job as much as trucking"????

 

You got treated badly by Pam, I would never work at Pam. I have only worked at places where I already knew a driver working at the company before I worked there. I have never been treated badly at any trucking company.

New drivers just expect that all companies are the same or all trucking companies can be turned into good companies by telling companies about "driver shortage" or "I can do better at company X". Bad companies don't change. They don't fear losing their 50th driver this month. The bad companies know how to hire 55 drivers per month, or whatever the number is.

More research is how you get better results. IMO.

 

Back in the 70s during my time in the Air Force my roommate's mother had a heart attack back home in Wyoming but was recovering from it. This happened over a long weekend. I had a few bucks to give him as did most of the other guys, we got him airfare to Denver and his family was going to pick him up there. It took about 24 hours to get him ready and his emergency leave signed and done. I was the one that took him to LAX early that next morning. His mom died before he got home. He blamed not being there on our 1st Sgt as well as the command Chaplin on the base for that. This guy let his temper get the best of him and he took a drunken swing at the 1st Sgt later on. Our 1st Sgt was a cool guy that I thought the world of. He did not make a case out of it. He just made it clear to that guy that if he ever did that again they would be taking what's left of him to the base jail! Emergencies happen. I am so sorry about that seizure. Still no excuse to blame an entire industry for it!

 

Did they have you on training pay for 2 months?

 

My comment was not easy for me to write. With a few exceptions very few in these boards really know me. I try to stay positive with my attitude as I live the time I have left. However, there are some things that press my buttons. Failing to understand the dynamics of this job as it relates to travel is a big one for me. What I would have done in his place is get the primary physician careing for the child to call me. Let me know just how serious the situation is. Then make decisions after. Not all emergencies require someone traveling to be in attendance. This sounds mean and cruel I know. Get good information and act based on that. This is why I have always recomended a driver have the means to get home regardless of why ASAP when you are OTR. I kept a large amount of cash in my briefcase just for this reason. You also never know if you might get fired or be forced to abandon a broke tractor somewhere. This is a sad situation complicated by distance. Being away from home exposes a driver to these problems. There are no OTR drivers exempt.

 

i agreed with what you had said previously. many take these jobs in hopes of making those big dollars as advertised, but almost always fail to see the truth between the clouded views.

i also fully believe that many that take these jobs, never strayed away more than about 2 city blocks from thier homes. (i say that with sarcasm). but it basically is also the truth. in my earlier years, i didn't travel too much to any job i had. i was home each night, and on weekends and all holidays.

the world turned upside down for me and my family when i went to trucking school, and back then HAD to go long haul for several weeks at a time.

it was not easy, but i had (and still have) a great wife at home, that took care of everything while i was away, and i was only as far away as a long distance phone call.

today's newbies want it all, the job, the money, the home time, but no time put in to earn a better job, to me, they want it all on a silver platter and NOW DARN-IT, or i'm going home.!!!!!

and it's always the bosses fault.

this is what you signed up for, otherwise, DO NOT sign up..