Fired on day 2 of a new job?!?!?

LOL. That dude thought he caught you in a lie, or what?

 

I know this post has been up a while before I responded to it, and I appreciate getting the view from the other side. As a company driver who works hard to be both productive and safe, let me tell you that it blows my mind the amount of BS I have had to deal with. I never lie, cheat or steal. I have made mistakes but always owned up to them. And yet I STILL get lied to repeatedly, disrespected constantly, and just all around poorly treated. I just don't get it. I'd expect that from larger fleets where they prefer newer drivers that they can pay less to keep their expenses low, but even smaller outfits I've dealt with are like that often. Poor maintenance, won't take no for an answer, feed me loads of BS, then wonder why I'm leaving and cry about how I'm screwing you over? Then proceed to lie to prospective employers about me to boot?

I dunno, maybe I'm on the receiving end of the backlash from the employers against what they expect to be another lazy and incompetent employee, but if you want the cream of the crop don't start digging at the bottom of the barrel.

Holy ####, ok, you definitely had good cause there. Lol

 

Not trying to catch anybody at anything. New owner hires new driver and then comes on a public forum with one side of a story, guy cannot offer a rebuttal.

If he unhooked the eld and ran home fire him. Just don't understand why anybody would feel the need to display the dirty laundry. Maybe it makes him feel important

 

You know, Im right there with you. I go far as to tell a new boss: "dont ever lie to me. If I lie to you, you will fire me, so if you lie to ME, I will be working somewhere else next week". Ive quit more than 1 job for being lied to constantly. JB Hunt for 1, American Freight (the month before Fed Ex bought them) for another.

 

Yes I agree worthless post by op
Couldn't even bother to fill in some details until he was pressed for clarification. I believe he wants to feel important.

Good for him he can hire and fire people!

 

I tend to agree with this guy, to some degree.
When you hire on and they have a 90 day probationary period. Give me a break!! It takes you 90 days to see if a driver can't cut it? There is something wrong with you. It'd take me 90 seconds!!
That's so the company can shoehorn 3 months of labor out of you without having to pay out benefits.
Add to the fact that 75% of recievers and shippers don't give one single crap about the fact you've been sitting in there yard 4 hours passed your appointment time. Burning every bit of your on/duty time. Noncompensated.
Then there is the problem of having specialized endorsements, hazmat used to pay a higher rate, just for having the endorsement. Why? Because not every driver can get the endorsement.
Tankers, Doubles/Triples, Passenger
It's little wonder there is a driver shortage.
Drivers with specialized endorsements should be paid a premium. Like one fellow put it. Treated like gold.

 

And in some cases that endorsement or three has no value if you are with a company that treats it like dirt. Enter the one dispatcher who raged against my bypassing Baltimore on the Keybridge in Hazmat as required one day. 35 or so minutes and done.

In Hazmat the entire time I had that endorsement from the beginning I have a perfect record, no OSD, no claims no accidents no and no and no. And this little tin horn? Bah. I finally turned in the endorsement to the state after figuring the problem carefully and realized that i don't get extra pay for having it. Literally no incentive to keep it.

It was not long after until Tinhorn tried to dispatch me on Hazmat. I told him find someone who has that endorsement to abuse, Im out of it. Then the yelling started. I quit listening long ago because you can only beat a dead horse before it quit noticing the blows.

There was a time when I went out on Hazmat runs I was treated very well. Until Tinhorn express. I hope he is still there in his third circle of hell of a shack dispatching.

 

Read post #50 from nightgunner, he has it right. I have a ten to one ratio on hiring becuase my standards are not that of general labor, I am looking for drivers who want to act as professionals and treat this as a career.

A lot of owners have stricter standards than I do and their ratio is higher.

The cheap owners and those revolving door companies are the cause of the mentality in this industry that it is just job, hiring people who can't even drive a car let alone a truck, get them to pass tests for a crackerjack license and then up and quit becuase they ain't paid like the guy who has 19 years in the seat.

We are our own enemy. We sit here and ***** and complain about how we are treated but don't do a thing about it. We should be demanding things as a group, like harder licensing testing and no crap about third and fourth chances. My take on much of this stems from meetings drivers who say 'ain't my problem" or "I don't give a **** what others do as long as I get my money".

Like nightrunner said, pay isn't the issue, the attitude is about the work and responsibility is.

 

Maybe that contributed to the problem. He takes a 900 mile bus ride, you turn around and put him on a truck to do a 14 hour shift driving? Maybe you should have welcomed him to your company by at least getting him a bed in a $39 motel for the evening before setting out for a full week of work?

900 miles in a small seat in a stinking Greyhound sitting next to a fat slob feels like 24 hours of straight driving.

Just wondering...

 

I managed to hire on without relying on greystink in my later years, some times on my own wheels. Sometimes by air which isnt that bad. Once by train.

A long time ago I found a O/O about 20 minutes across the county who were dedicated to just two things, Cookies down to Louisana and crawfish and other things back. I was ready to go. But he pulled a drawer and showed me a foot stack of generic applications that were filled out just that week. Basically the pick of the litter. I did not get the job despite a successful interview. (Which wasnt that much anyhow considering everything was in order... he wanted people who has been to Louie before) He could afford to be picky.