Dirtiest trick ever

"Allowed to drive to orientation."
???
What's the standard procedure?? Work for company 5 states away and have to take their refurbished convict bus to their torture house??

 

A lot of drivers lie in their application,at orientation when the company digs deeper into everything,the lies starts to come up and the driver is no longer hireable.

 

Do you have any idea how many incoming Swift drivers (newbs) I’ve passed, while they were walking across the river bridge at Memphis? After taking a bus, only to find out there was no one coming to pick them up.

 

Trucking companies have absolutely zero incentive to bus in new hires, pay to put them up in a motel then send them home for no reason. That doesnt make sense.

Now that I work in the operations side of the industry and play a roll in the onboarding process for my company (I do all the road tests and peoplenet training for all new hires), i see the idiocy of "drivers" first hand. They show up and fail the drug test, they show up drunk, they show up and cant shift (we require 2 yrs experience), they show up and hit stuff during the road test, they oversleep by 3 hrs on the first day of orientation, they show up then wander off halfway thru the day. Its mind boggling. Companies invest time and money in these people and hope to get a return on that investment. They (we) do not want to lose money.

 

who do you work for?

 

I would suggest your screening process needs attention.

 

yes this the dirtiest trick ever is to get them a long way from home normally several hundred miles then they have to find there own way home that bull**** if they pay to get them there they should pay to get them home safely to it should be the law this is not going to work

and anybody that some extra smart trucking info he is on youtube is smart over 40 years experience in this industry

 

Always at least two sides to everything and your response brings up good points. I always find it incredible that any driver would travel halfway across the country flat broke with not even enough money to buy a meal let alone get home if they needed to. Whether that be from an orientation that doesn't work out or from the road after being hired for any number of reasons.

Too many people have the "THEY Disease..." they did this - they did that when most of the time the main character causing most of the problems in their life is the one staring back at them from the mirror each morning...

 

I have to say in the orientations I have been to that the guys let go screwed themselves. Either they failed the drug test or just showed up whenever they finally woke up or were just flat out dirt bags. Doesn't make much business sense to pay for people to come to orientation and just then say bye for no reason.