Goodbye all!

How do you know they didn't do that?

 

First, how do you know that he did? You don't have to be so defensive about that comment. I have a lot of experience when it comes to seizures because I have them myself. They can be intense and scary as heck for a parent, but they subside normally very quickly. It also looks as if the child was stable and in the ICU. I have had to spend some time in the ICU after several of mine. My main point is in that comment and is still in this one now. Get the rundown on how serious the situation is before you go off all excited. I don't know if the OP was a student or on his own truck. I do know that Pam (at least once) runs teams. Pam is a trash carrier. I don't think any of the replies are saying otherwise. What most of us are trying to get across is sometimes you can't get what you want when you want it. An OTR driver has to accept that sometimes life happens when they are gone. It stinks, but it happens. I did something like this in the summer of 1997 a few months before my father died. I was way up in Ohio and he was at the Emory Hospital near Atlanta. I asked my sister to have his primary heart doctor call me where I was at the time ( back then I did not have a cell phone). The doctor did several minutes later. He told me my father's exact condition and said he was not going to last much longer but I should not be in a hurry to get home that night. I did get home later that next day. I will also admit I have no children. I can only guess how it feels to hear a child is sick and in the ICU. I still contend that you should size up the situation THEN decide the best recourse. The OP if I remember the post took almost a week to get home. This is a sad situation. I will still stand on my point though. If you are OTR and a long way from home by the very nature of this job you MUST accept the fact there might come a time when something happens and you will not be there. You should stay focused and work with your company to get home. Most carriers are good about doing this. I know of some carriers that will fly you home if it is very serious. The problem here goes back to Pam. Developing a chip on your shoulder does not solve anything. Quitting the industry does not either.

 

One more point on this so maybe it does not devolve into a flame war. OTR truckers have the same problems US Servicemembers have when it comes to emergencies at home. Most of the time the emergency is over within 12 to 24 hours. If the driver is not close to home they are not going to be in attendance during that time. They simply can not be in two places at the same time. When an emergency is over the patient has either passed away or the situation has stabilized and they were sent home or up on the floor. Not counting my problems of the last few years, I was thinking back to when I was bitten by Timber rattler in North Georgia. My father was a trucker and I can't remember where he was. Back then my father's company-mandated they do a morning call in. It was almost 10 hours after I was bitten before my father even knew about it. By the time he got through to my mother, I had already received 3 or 4 of the 6 vials of antivenin I would get and was stable. My father still got home because his company W R Grace flew him home. I hope everybody is understanding my point here. If you are away and learn of a bad situation at home, stay calm and find out what is happening first. Accept the fact you won't be there during the most stressful time of the emergency and work to get home. Besides like I said, with almost every emergency, it's going to be over way before you can get home. That is the cold hard facts, if you can't handle it, DO NOT LEAVE HOME!

 

Keep the cdl, check for local stuff, even box truck stuff.

 

Before you give up, contact this company. You'll have Teamsters benefits and health insurance.
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Dang bud sorry to hear that. F them mega companies. If ya like truckin dont quit forever, do what u gotta do to take care of ur family, maybe find a small company less than 200 trucks where they care about u. Good luck to u

 

@G13Tomcat good to see u again boss!! Hope everything going well with u and ur family over ur way

 

So you just started driving and expect to be making top pay right away?

 

Now i would agree but the poor guy making 2k in 2 months , that is just bad for the amount of risk we take and #### we have to deal with