can I get away with

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by zoekatya, Feb 5, 2015.

  1. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    If you have two years driving and one is TT, is that not good enough? Talk to them in person would be the angle i would take. Can you still drive a semi well?
     
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  3. RetiredUSN

    RetiredUSN Medium Load Member

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    Your character is the only thing besides experience that you have to offer any company or customer. You are already off to a bad start my friend.
     
  4. G.Anthony

    G.Anthony Road Train Member

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    As I had said in an earlier posting, he did OTR first for a year, then last year, he did class B. Some companies may/will say he was away too long for OTR work. I would find that annoying as all hell myself, but it is the insurance companies that dictate who gets hired, UNLESS the hiring company is "self" insured?. But even then, some of the "mega carriers are self insured, and deny employment for over a year away from OTR, if IIRC?
     
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  5. FLATBED

    FLATBED Road Train Member

    self insured or not most still follow the format as those of an Insurance companies and RECENT EXPERIENCE plays a key role in getting employment
     
  6. Shaggy

    Shaggy Road Train Member

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    Yes you can. ONLY if that company also had Tractor Trailers
    and you drove them occasionally. I blended my experience between Straight Truck and Tractor Trailers, Never kept track of that mileage crap doing local. Only works if that company has straight trucks and tractor trailers. It's not lying if you had drove a few times other then box truck.

    It will never bite me in the butt, It's not lying and good to go from a few upstanding companies
     
  7. superflow

    superflow Road Train Member

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    The truth will defend you! And if invited in, will never leave nor forsake you.... A lie if invited in will wait for a chance to destroy you while telling everything will be alright.... Could I be wrong?
     
  8. Tonythetruckerdude

    Tonythetruckerdude Crusty Deer Slayer

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    No you're not.
     
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  9. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Once you lie you may have to keep lying. Sooner or later it will catch up to you. Then, even if you don't get fired, you will have lost your credibility with them and they will always wonder if anything you say is the truth.
     
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  10. Starboyjim

    Starboyjim Road Train Member

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    [QUOTE="semi" retired;4446986]We're known here for jumping the gun.[/QUOTE]

    Hilarious, Semi.
     
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