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<p>[QUOTE="brsims, post: 2615599, member: 32079"]Did that with Western Express last year. Submitted full application, including the lack of recent verifiable experience. I did apply for a student position, figuring a few weeks out with a trainer couldn't be all <i>that</i> bad.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, I arrived in Nashville for orientation, passed the physical and drug test with flying colors (and I didn't even study beforehand!), made it through orientation and load securement with zero problems. The last day of load securement, nobody seemed to know if I was a student, or experienced. I was asked if I could run a couple of tractors back and forth between Nashville, TN and the yard in SW PA. I was also offered a dedicated run for wallboard in SW PA.</p><p> </p><p>Just before I get a truck assigned, I got pulled aside with two other people, and told that I didn't have enough recent experience to qualify as a student, and sent home. If I didn't have enough recent experience, wouldn't that have shown on my application, or during orientation when they ran my employment background?</p><p> </p><p>Bloody idiots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brsims, post: 2615599, member: 32079"]Did that with Western Express last year. Submitted full application, including the lack of recent verifiable experience. I did apply for a student position, figuring a few weeks out with a trainer couldn't be all [I]that[/I] bad. Anyway, I arrived in Nashville for orientation, passed the physical and drug test with flying colors (and I didn't even study beforehand!), made it through orientation and load securement with zero problems. The last day of load securement, nobody seemed to know if I was a student, or experienced. I was asked if I could run a couple of tractors back and forth between Nashville, TN and the yard in SW PA. I was also offered a dedicated run for wallboard in SW PA. Just before I get a truck assigned, I got pulled aside with two other people, and told that I didn't have enough recent experience to qualify as a student, and sent home. If I didn't have enough recent experience, wouldn't that have shown on my application, or during orientation when they ran my employment background? Bloody idiots.[/QUOTE]
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