Cargo Transporters

Wow you really go out of your way to fill in blanks that aren’t there. Where was I rude to anyone? Lol talking about making stuff up. I simply told my experience that lasted a week with the company. Take what you want from it. Trucking is hard? Really? Are you sure? I’ve been out here four years, nothing in my life has ever came easy. Trucking just being the next adventure. For me, personally cargo transporters was a hideous experience. Their training was team driving. Plain and simple.

 

Wow you really go out of your way to fill in blanks that aren’t there. Where was I rude to anyone? Lol talking about making stuff up. I simply told my experience that lasted a week with the company. Take what you want from it. Trucking is hard? Really? Are you sure? I’ve been out here four years, nothing in my life has ever came easy. Trucking just being the next adventure. For me, personally cargo transporters was a hideous experience. Their training was team driving. Plain and simple.

I follow trucking as an industry whole. And I see reviews on multiple employment sites for each and every trucking company that I’m curious about. And I see a pattern. In that pattern is when a former employee leaves a bad review it is usually followed within 24 to 48 hours by three or four five star reviews by the likes of people who work outside company in the office, family, management, etc. Maybe some drivers that have been there for years. Are they entitled to leave their reviews? I don’t know, but they always pop up right after a negative review to keep those ratings high. I see it time and time again. The only way you get a true review about most trucking companies is to bump into drivers while out on the road at truckstops and talk to them personally. That’s been my experience. And really all you should’ve taken to heart was the final sentence in my initial post. “I can’t say if cargo transporters is a good or bad trucking company but this is my experience with them“.

I could’ve sued them if I was a real a hole for what happened on that top bunk alone. Yeah I actually injured my ribs. I flew off the top bunk twice. Ask the trainer if I could sleep on the bottom bunk and he whined about it and gave me an excuse why I couldn’t. I left. Because I valued my life.

 

OK let’s get a few things straight here. You’ve had a different experience with cargo transporters than I did. And that’s fine. But I am not lying. Now I don’t recall specifically but I’m pretty sure if you go back to some of my first posts years ago on this forum I posted about this incident. I don’t recall if I mentioned cargo transporters, or just in general what was happening to me during my first week of training. If it wasn’t on this trucking forum it was on the other that I was also a member of. I also have saved the communication from cargo transporters. Why would I make up a lie about them? Facts are that no trucking company is perfect. They’re going to make mistakes. In my opinion they made a mistake handling their training with me. When I signed up to go for work for them I went through their orientation. On the day I was supposed to go out to start my training, the trainer failed his medical and I was assigned a different trainer. Had to wait a few days to get started…This guy was a bum. What I’m telling you is the absolute truth. I met him in Hillsboro, NC at the truckstop to start my training. My very first load driving a big rig outside of trucking school was into New York. This particular gentleman sat on the bunk and watched me drive for approximately 30 minutes. When he made the statement of, “you seem like a natural I’m gonna get some sleep, If you need anything let me know”. I managed to drive the truck to New York and through New York to the receiver completely on my own keeping in mind this was the very first time I had ever driven a big truck outside of school. When I pulled into the receiver I didn’t know what to do. So I woke him up. And yes he got up and took the paperwork in and we backed into a dock. From that point forward I basically never saw the guy. For the entire rest of the first week. Just as I described.

And you obviously aren’t reading my posts entirely. You say I should speak up for myself. What part of “I asked him twice to sleep on the bottom bunk and he whined and gave me an excuse why I couldn’t” did you miss?

And I don’t fall for the “stop being mean” routine. Nothing about what I’ve stated here is mean. It’s factual. You just don’t like it because you’re trying to overpraise a company that I had a different experience with. And you don’t like it. Well that’s too bad. All experiences by truck drivers at companies should be stated openly.

 

Now that I’m really invested in this thread. Lol I’m gonna add this to be totally fair to my point of view. I chalk up my experience at this company to most likely the trainer that I had. Things I noticed about the company in my short week there that were positive? Their equipment was top notch. Everything extremely well-maintained all the trailers were newer, trucks were new and their yard and operations seemed very organized. Driver amenities were great. Their communication systems were great, they seem to have pretty good lanes. Lot of north east driving though. Lot of New York stuff. If I had a had a different trainer there might of been a different outcome for me. And at that Time their pay was on the upper end as well. Especially for just starting out.

 

Oh boy......this thread just got serious. I'll be right back.. I need to go pop some corn.

 

It sure has. But, I’ll give them both kudos, they’re both getting their points across without personally attacking each other. Great reading. I myself just got some buttered popcorn.

 

Did you make enough for everybody?

 

she told you.....

 

what fun is that, my friend? If they're not trading insults, he said/she saids, innuendo, then why bother?

I can go peruse some of the ol' BYOB&CBD threads, where my friend, and yours, the man, the myth, the legend, a man among men, children, and small barnyard animals told it like it was, no holds barred, a man I'm still somewhat proud to call mi amigo, @TB John Honest TB.....