DESPERATE!!!

More help and advise.

You CAN shorten your "training" time. If it a list of companies you need. Just ask. Start a new thread "Companies with short training periods" you'll get several.

At this point in time. I would say your expectations far exceed your abilities.

No doubt you have a need and a desire to do this job.

But nothing in your schooling has prepared you for the realities of this job.

I constantly make recommendations to dispatchers with regard to customer locations and the amount of experience a driver should have BEFORE being sent to that customer.

It's not about you. It's about your lack of skills.

You still need proper training. Nothing and I mean nothing can prepare you for the eventual hazards of this job.

And you'll still struggle for weeks if not months AFTER you get off a trainers truck.

 

I suggested a company,

did you try comcar ?????

 

I wouldn't trust CRST, to blow their own nose.

Try Watkins and Shepard and Schneider. Both have relatively short training periods. Only question you'll need to ask. If they're hiring out of your area.

 

Uh, well actually, you brought this on yourself.

Were you on "the range"???

That was absolutely nothing.

To spend that amount of time, (5-6 hours straight) you could NOT HAVE BEEN on the road. Do you think all roads are as smooth as the school yard, or maybe a local street or nearby highway are?

Wait till you get dispatched all over the country. There are roads out there that will send you into a tirade of pain and misery.

I do not believe anyone has called you a "dope feign", but rather are indeed trying to help you understand that the trucking industry is not all peaches and cream.

Many trucking companies say now, that they will take you as a driver. But that is the recruiting staff talking to you, not anyone of importance just yet.

You have a "pre-existing" health issue, whether you choose to believe this or not. If for any reason whatsoever, an employer decides to cut you loose, you will have to start all over again. The next employer's insurance company may deny you health coverage. Or at the most, you will be denied a job.

You want someone to tell you of a company that will get you home, in time, to pick up your meds and see you doctor. At first, there may be an employer that might try and get you home. But they certainly DO NOT HAVE TO.

I wish you well, but I see where you will not succeed much.

 

I have a pinched nerve. Trust me "holding" the steering wheel mile after mile hurts.

No back problems, until the end of the day.

Any pain you experience on a daily basis will only be magnified after a few days on the road.

I use anti inflammatory meds daily. And the only real relief I get comes on about my 3rd day at home.

 

So the medicine Pat is on is a risk?Maybe I missed it but what medicne is he on?Does his drug say on the bottle do not take while operating machinery?I'm taking prescription medicine for high BP,does'nt affect my driving.We're all jumping to conclusions.We don't know what he's on but im guessen its very safe otherwise 2 companies would not have approved him.