First trucking job experience was a nightmare. looking for advice.

Yes the one that was your fault is apart of your driving record, you will have to list it

 

Good Buddies:
..."Don't worry buddy! Stay up a just a little longer, another drink won't kill ya, be a man! What did you invite us all here for? You bought some great beer, you wanna drink it all alone? You're not going nerd on us bud, are ya? You were always a great designated driver for us, and I thank you you for that!

It's that #### truckin! ! I got you to go to school and into that trucking job, that's why you snatched this here smokin' babe! Show me some respect! You can sleep it off after work tomorrow! Sure, I'm out of work on welfare but it's because stupid dispatcher ######## don't know know ####! Stay up! There's more to life than money, you gotta have a little fun! Reaches to gladhand your babe's beautiful titties, falls over barfing, breaks the mirror and cuts himself."...

 

You do know that it's 3 years old.

 

Her was bored, and I'm willing to bet, he does now

 

You should stop trying to live and work locally up there along the Cross Bronx. If anything is going to happen at all it will be right along there. And I am a OTR who learned trucking doing nothing but your area from Baltimore. Ive had a thousand incidents along there....

Buy a dash cam put the #### thing in your next truck or car and use it always. A moment of video takes care of the he said she said and firings potentially.

Remember who loaded your truck. Keep his or her names in mind when making deliveries. Anything OSD (Over short or damage) should have a dedicated clerk in your company structure takes the information, ask you questions and collects the data necessary to process the OSD problem. It's hardly a firing issue unless you are that flatbed trucker who gave away 20K in plywood in florida recently. (He got fired, but nothing to prosecute....)

Your description of the talking with Owner etc about these problems indicate you were already headed towards a dismissal anyway. These things do happen and when a bad apple stinks up the barrel, it's bye bye.

I don't know what else to say, in my time mirriors were 25 dollars give or take a buck. These days they can potentially contain video cameras now and be thousands of dollars possibly.

A box truck isnt that big, you should be able to get into places the big rigs cannot without smashing up stuff. And take it easy, slow down in traffic up there. The people get riled up and aggressive next thing you see everyone around is now being aggressive, YOU slow the heck down pronto because something is about to go smash up. You watch..... Just don't be the first one hit.

Next time mr. Big Brake forces a stop like you described where you got rearended... get his tag number FIRST before anything. Write it down. Then whatever he or she does does not matter because the Law will want to talk to him or her.

A dash cam of good quality will do that for you.

You will outlive us all and still drive a truck. But I suggest you consider moving out of that area and live elsewhere in the USA where half the stress and traffic you see up there on the Cross Bronx simply does not exist elsewhere. You might even gain some weight living quietly and slower enjoying your work away from there.

 

LOL! Just what I was going to suggest.

 

Thanks. If its got the info one needs, then it's worth it. (especially with timeless facts and well written posts) Google searches all years. I'm also still learning how to write, so I'm less shy about it going unnoticed.