Don't Know if This Is The Right Decision or Not. Any advice?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by DARKNIGHTRUCKER, Aug 11, 2020.

  1. DARKNIGHTRUCKER

    DARKNIGHTRUCKER Light Load Member

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    I goal alot that's the main reason why my last 2 months have been clean. What happens alot too is a trucker in line behind me will get impatient with my backing and help guide me ..

    Main thing that happened in the first incident was I totally lost my composure. I have to stay calm and approach difficult situation with all the resources I have available and not try to force a square peg into a round hole so to speak.

    I had an even more difficult back INSIDE of a building with no space whatsoever. Had 2 different Truckers guiding me to squeeze it in just barely. Who designs places like that for Truckers I have
    No idea....
     
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  3. Dockbumper

    Dockbumper Road Train Member

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    Spend the rest of your "rookie year" really working on Trip Planning and Clock Management. Those are 2 crucial element to big miles and bigger paychecks. Just "driving out your clock" everyday is not necessarily the best course of action. Also, if you do not already use it, (I sure hope someone told you about it), download the Truckerpath app. All you need is the free version, do not pay for their other services. You do not need them. Learn to use that app and pick several places you know you can park, before you ever start your trip for the day.
     
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  4. meechyaboy

    meechyaboy Heavy Load Member

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    Did you ever find out the agreements of the contract? What do you have to payback? Does it go down with time served? You signed it so you should have a copy somewhere. Lol make sure they didn’t tell you 1 year and put 2 in the fine print
     
  5. DARKNIGHTRUCKER

    DARKNIGHTRUCKER Light Load Member

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    on my profile on the companies website it says i will have served my year by 5.12.2021. And if I leave before that time i would owe them the full sum of the tution for school (its quite alot).

    My incidents actually occured in June. So I'm going to wait until July 1st 2021. I'll confirm with PAM that ive completed my contract and confirm that its been paid off. I'm certain its 1 year, people are always posting about leaving at a year and that's what the contract said when I signed it. And that's reiterated on my profile page on the company website.

    If there's some fine print i missed I wont care tbh. At that point I'm just going to leave anyway and get a better paying job somewhere else contract be ######. That year of no accidents is what other companies are looking for in general anyway.

    Even the company I was supposed to go to orientation to in two weeks told me (after i told them about the accidents) that I could start up with them as soon as October of this year (assuming no more incidents).
     
  6. meechyaboy

    meechyaboy Heavy Load Member

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    I’m just saying don’t be lazy and assume find out 100 percent. You should have a copy of you agreement
     
  7. DARKNIGHTRUCKER

    DARKNIGHTRUCKER Light Load Member

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    yea its probably somewhere buried in all my paperwork in my truck. I couldnt find it online.
     
  8. Hazmat Cat

    Hazmat Cat Medium Load Member

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    What’s the total cost?
     
  9. DARKNIGHTRUCKER

    DARKNIGHTRUCKER Light Load Member

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    ???
     
  10. Hazmat Cat

    Hazmat Cat Medium Load Member

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    i was wondering what they say the cost of training and you working for them is..
     
  11. meechyaboy

    meechyaboy Heavy Load Member

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    Not trying to hound you or anything but if you call them and have to ask they may just make something up... “lemme get back to you” then the date they say is not what your expecting. you can save yourself the headache of having to guess. They may try to squeeze an extra three months of service just cause you don’t know. And then the “incidents“ you had were very Minor. Sounds like you learned from them. In my eyes you should only have one incident. Getting stuck on customer property especially if it’s where you were told to go it should not Be your fault, customer needs to maintain their lot. It should be a no fault incident. We had a tank wash in Neenah, Wi and I my truck had tag axles -not meant for wi snow no matter how many times I told them. Had to get towed out 4 seperate times in one winter. Despite me calling beforehand and telling them this won’t end well and my dbl agreeing with me and telling me to go anyway
     
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