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Have you applied with any companies yet?

 

Do the online apps and you'll be contacted by someone from the companies you apply to.
It can be intimidating, but you'll have a job in a couple of days.
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I listed 15 companies : apply to all of them.

 

Just apply to those 15 jobs and accept one of the job offers. No more silliness about being afraid. I was afraid when I first started and applied but I just did it anyway. There's no other way around it, you just have to do it. Fill out the application, take a deep breath, then hit the submit button. It will be alright. The worst that will happen is they will call you and tell you no. It doesn't include an arse kicking or anything.

 

Companies have a habit of trying to destroy you economically. I have had companies do the same to me in my past. They will fire with malice then write in god only knows what into DAC and other things. When you go around applying to 3000 companies ALL of them laugh you off the phone. No.

Then what?

It is the way they do it in this industry and it effectively eliminates those who companies deem bad actors for whatever reason. With malice is the word I look for.

I had one company black list me. In Indiana law 25 years ago it is legal for them to do so verbally. It took me 4 months wondering why everyone near and far said no to me. Turns out they call that employer and learn that I am BL'ed. And that is that for OTR trucking.

Enter Maryland Labor Board. We brought them up on certain for cause charges and under oath certain facts were extracted from them based on case law Maryland award me everything including back claims.

If you think the management were angry when they fired me the yelling at the end of that conference call was a eyeopener.

I was rolling in a big rig a few months later when one employer was briefed carefully on everything from that hostile employer in Indiana. It was a education for me that year. A important year.

And you know what? After 10 years? By law, poof. Water under the bridge. I never have to explain myself again with that outfit to any employer today. And I am working on getting back into it with a particular function in my area related to high dollar medicines in Memphis. But first I have to clean up and fix enough until I pass DOT medical and go back up to CDL A and tier one. And I would be rolling soon enough. I have two employers waiting for me to finish all that even though they are aware of my recent medical history including legal medicines and so on. All of that has been cleaned up. Just a matter of dealing with my home state in CDL.

A new development is the Database related to drivers who have never refused, tested positive or have problems with drug testing starting Jan 6 2020. I will be putting my name into it. I continue to endure 800 dollar drug testing several times a year for the last 15 years as a enforcement method at my doctors. All of which are on record as clean clean and clean. (Meaning I am compliant with medicines and so forth and later clean without medicine) Those tests have stopped at the doctors and I will be happy to drug test with anyone hair or whatever after June of next year. But that new database will have me in it after Jan 6th. No motor carrier is legally allowed to employ a driver without having that driver in that particular drug test database after 1 jan 6 2020.

If I can do it with my position in life any one can do it. No matter how bad employers today try to destroy you. You can always fight back using facts not emotion in rebuttal to DAC etc. If that employer fails to answer it, they are wiped from the DAC and you are clear. Sometimes they cannot be bothered with you.

Good luck!

 

You keep claiming you're a safe driver. You claim you were in control ...

You are not a safe driver, simply because you don't even know, nor understand that you were not in control of your truck.

If you were in control, you wouldn't let a 65 mph governed truck run up to 70, much less 80. If you were a safe driver you would have reduced your speed, instead of letting it "coast". If you were a safe driver you would know you're only in control of you trailer when you have the ability to pull it. If you were safe driver you would know that once you exceed a trucks governed speed going down grade the trailer is pushing you and you're not in control ... The trailer is.

Until you understand you're not in control when the trailer is pushing you, then you're an accident waiting to happen. That's why Swift fired you. They don't want that accident happening on their watch.