Accidents Is There A Job Out There After

I'll bite and assume you're telling the truth. If you want to find work, I feel, your best bet is to start contacting larger training companies. Come clean with them and tell them that you have issues with backing, and need training. Maybe one of them will take pity on you and let you come on. If you are lucky they'll also send you out with a trainer that has experience and will teach how to back again. It sounds like you have some skills that could use some improving, you also might want to start taking responsibility for what you've done. Making statements like, "well I payed attention in rush hour traffic so I think I'm doing pretty good" is dumb. Don't be dumb.

 

How exactly did it happen 3 times???

 

I'm thinking a job as a bicycle courier will be your new driving job....
Don't forget your helmet....

 

so all three you were coming out of the dock, but didn't have your doors secured? Is that about right?

 

Well from the drivers that I am seeing here in Laredo I would say you are about an average driver in today's world . I think you fit right in after all you have not killed anyone so just keep on doing what your doing and it will all work out ..... Ok so now all the it is not your fault touchy feely stuff is over with I will tell you the cold hard facts .... You need to pull your head out of your ### and start being a truck driver and not another idiot with a wheel in his hand and a GPS on his dash !!

truck driving is work not some game you play . You have to be paying attention all the time not just in a traffic jam ! We have. Enough whiners out here saying it is not my fault I didn't hurt anyone it's just a door and all the other nonsense that I hear every day !!

Is it really that hard to pay attention to what you are doing ? I mean really three doors in five months and you want a second chance ?

Do you even know or care how much your little its just a door mistakes cost ? Do you know or care what it does to insurance rates and how it makes the company look to the customer?

I do think that you would fit right in with shipping wars crowd to help show the world that we are really dumnder than they thought we were to start with .

ok I will stop with the crusty old driver ranting and let you get back to looking for that second chance you deserve so much.

 

Going to be very tough, especially if your accidents were deemed "preventables". I would consider other avenues of employment because it sounds as if you maybe "unhireable" for quite some time. Be sure to check your DAC. That will help you determine where you stand.

 

I do 90% of my stuff with roll up doors, the other 10% is the normal ones. You have to be careful with all of them.

Roll ups are easy just get a good look at the dock and don't back in at an angle, when in doubt about something at the dock hitting your door just open the thing. Most docks expect the door to be open as most people use the other style doors anyway.

With normal doors, I don't open them until I have already backed to the door and lined up with the doors closed. Then I pull forward enough to open them, and back 100% straight into the dock.

When finished, I pull forward just enough to close the doors and I close them. I will reopen the door at the gate if they want to inspect it, there is no good reason to move more than a trucklength with the doors open.

The doors are usually not very well secured, even with bungie cords don't drive with the doors open. I have personally seen at least 5 doors go and 3/5 were done moving forward and hitting the door on something.

So my advice is don't move more than you have to with the doors open and call a megacarrier.

 

My question is have you put out apps. Or are you just scared of rejection so therefore you will come ask us if you will ever find a job. Rather then hitting the pavement to look for one. There are some companies who might take you on but they push lease hard. Might want to try Trans AM. Where do you live there might be some outlaw companies who might put you on. But for the most part people don't want accident prone people. So they are very superstitious about hiring people with recent accidents. Also try Werner or Western Express but most companies don't want to touch you if you have had more the 1 preventable accident in the last 3 years. Also not having enough experience might keep you back. Fill out some online applications and see if you get a bite. You never know.