How do I play this game?

What did you learn so far from what we warned you about?

Here is what you need to do, call someone in safety and tell them there are multiple problems with truck, hell you can make up one or two and get it to a shop.

If that doesn't work, go above them, talk to someone in management, like high up in management, not some supervisor.

A/C isn't needed to drive the truck but the ELD is, and if the cab temp is too high and the ELD isn't working, it is a safety compliance issue. By the way, you were taught on how to log on paper, right? You should have the ELD failure kit to stay legal.

 

This is why I am so utterly opposed to the "jump in and see what happens" approach to entering the industry. There are companies that have good equipment & humane policies & don't haul just cheap freight from loadboards by foreign brokers who never tell the truth.

 

This type of situation at the start is likely going to set you up for rushing into another company with insufficient research and working for multiple terrible companies in your first year. It will teach you a lot about self-preservation and a lot less about normal trucking, meaning at the end of your year you have wasted more time in orientations & riding with trainers than at a quality company. I fully & genetically understand the rush to get working. I came close to being homeless. It's what got me into trucking.

It's better to take however much time is required to wind up at a good company, even if they have obstacles to quickly hiring drivers. This can't help you on this trip at this company. I don't know how to get from there to the future except don't work at any trucking company before you have personally talked to current drivers working at the target company. If you don't know enough to know you will be at a company for the next year, then you don't know enough to go to that company if you are single.

 

How old is the truck? Miles? Ask them to route up north.

 

If the same belt that runs the ac compressor runs the alternator just get the ac compressor to cause the belt to fail. Hint hint. Truck well shutdown due to no electrics.