TMC publicly shaming its drivers.

They’re not employees. They were people delivering milk to the plant. And I won’t name the place here because I’m not willing to put our company in a bad spot. But since I’m no longer pulling flatbed I will say that Boise Cascade in Elgin OR has/had a wall of shame as of late 2017. Compass Minerals in KS has pictures in the shipping office of drivers that have left the dock with a forklift in their trailer. Lots of places have them. Most people just accept responsibility for what they did instead of trying to blame the people for pointing out what they did.

 

I’ve had my CDL since May of 1997. I learned how to drive truck working for a farmer that had a harvest crew in the summer of 94 before my junior year of high school. Once I was out of high school every paycheck I’ve had has come from a truck. My grandpa started his company when he returned from WW2, and was later joined by my dad. Their DOT number was an old 5 digit number (12xxx) so that should tell you something. Sadly they both passed before I was out of school. But luckily because of who my family was a local farmer took me under his wing.

Grew up in trucks, I enjoy trucks for the most part. I like nice stuff. I take pride in my truck and what I do. So I tend to take offense when someone calls out my work ethic and accuses me of not inspecting my truck and taking care of it for whatever reason.

Oh and I recently tracked down and purchased a 1980 FL cabover that my dad bought brand new that I will be restoring.

So does my background pass your test? Am I allowed to talk about people bouncing checks for fuel since I had to write checks for fuel when I started driving?

 

Hahaha. You check out, sir! You never know unless you say something.

 

I see it all the time . Go into the copper mines and they got trucks plastered on wall, haul truck ran over a little car or something similar. See it all steel plants as well, a coil dropped on truck or a suicide coil thru cab or something similar

 

No not always. I have seen it both ways.

 

The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

 

I'll put it this way. If I were anonymously put on a wall of shame after an incident, I would feel bad enough.

If you put my name and truck number out there on that wall of shame, you are going to have an employee with a very bad attitude for the next week or two until my next job starts.

 

Why is that?