Advice for former LEO retiring and going into trucking

Roger that. You just stated things that I was speculating on a in this industry. I will expect to take the bad with the good and apply my experience and knowledge base. I hope to establish some good relationship in this job. Understanding it's very much being the master of your own domain environment but I believe the is more team work than perceived. In the LEO world there is a certain level of comraderie. But not always. An FBI special agent probably won't think much about a small town cop until that cop shoots a terrorist about to commit a terrorist act.

The comraderie comes from watching out for each other. That has more of a precence in trucking than it does in many other fields. With that come scrutiny within the ranks. We see that in the LEO field a lot. But it's bad now.

I can't tell a junior agent anything to upset them without first bringing to light how this will better their performance. Gone are the days of ### chewing and move on. Now it's all about document and evaluate and retrain. Explain to me how a 3 yr agent goes to the county jail to pick up a person for initials.... And she didn't bring her hand cuffs. But as it was brought to light, management immediately went in self protect mode, contacted our one and only "trainer" with zero field experience and got and answer everybody can live with. And that was "some agents were trained to transport without hand cuffs". Oh really! And let's not mention she doesn't bring her gun. But she's young and cute so she will get a pass.

I'm positive I will see the trucking version of this. It's everywhere. I think I may just enjoy interacting with state inspectors and DPS officers once I get my knowledge base up. It's good to know the enforcement side well.

 

I've gone about as big one can go in LE. I had my fun and I've had my frustrations. I will definitely not go to work in uniform again. I'm sure I will miss it, in uniform because I do already. But I'm in investigations. I rather get in to a new field all together. If trucking doesn't work out then I will do something in that arena again.