Great reason to stay away from crst!!!

Amazing.

I certainly am glad that these companies were not hiring and using government programs before Obama.

 

they don't get any "dollars in pocket"...they get tax credits (write offs) for employing the unemployed.

 

the elimination of these deductions would be best for all drivers and the public.
if you write off training a driver for swipe truck #69 and you ruin him and come back every year for tax cut for a driver for #69 til you trade it in after 5 years your abusing the tax payer and you have plenty of drivers in the usa.
if i rear end some one it will be my fault. if i miss a gear or break down on I80 im getting out an running

 

That is beyond "cold blooded"! LOL

 

i get annoyed when someone dont know what their doing and block the road but people get stuck and break down.
its terrible the man lost his life

 

IT SEEMS MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO WANT TO JUDGE, NOT REALLY KNOWING THE FACTS. i STARTED WITH crst OVER 17 YEARS AGO, I FEEL THEY HAD A GREAT TRANING PROGRAM AND SCHOOL. Maybe things have changed...

 

YES they have!

My first day with my CRST trainer went like this.........He picked me up at a bus station at 11pm, by midnight he was asleep in his bunk! I drove most of the night by myself after having been awake for almost 24 hrs and riding the Greyhound all day to get to where he was!

 

I started in '86, and my "training" was really a team operation. I was as green as green comes. 3 months later, I was the "trainer."

Thing was, I WANTED to be a truck driver, and I had a bit of common sense, besides. I had worked a lot of construction, and in construction you had better produce and get better at your job.

A lot, not all, of new drivers today have stars in their eyes, thinking it is some great adventure where they will be paid "tourists", and have NO idea what it is really like. A lot of them would not be safe behind the wheel of a 4 wheeler, and this trainee sounds like that type. If he was "disoriented", and "not sure if he was going uphill or downhill", he should never have been behind the wheel of a 4 wheeler, much less an 18 wheeler.

Nothing really against him, he should have been "weeded out" long before this accident. And there was definitely something wrong with the driver that hit him, also.

This was a tragedy, I feel for the families involved, but truck driving is not for everyone, some people are just not qualified by reason of personality.

No, I'm not "super trucker", but, dang, trucking is not like bagging french fries at McDonald's. You have to have a LITTLE bit of smarts.

 

I almost ran into a stevens transport truck in california 15 sb on cajon pass he was probably doing around 10 mph i didnt know the reason why he was going slow without flashers in the granny lane.i asked him what was the problem in the cb and he never responded.and this was at the very end of the downgrade before u pass the 215 but after the scales.that was a very close call for me. By the time i came around the corner i realized how slow he was going and moved over to the other lane quickly.would of been another whole story if there was cars on that lane and i couldnt pass.