Hello all. Ok lets start with I got my CDL a few years ago at C.R. ENGLAND in Texas. Decided to take my CDL home and got a job working for MAINE'S PAPER&FOOD. I drove a standard 48' reefer with a sleeper (freight-liner, volvo, international <---Don't Like ) anyhow I drove for them for 18 months most was same day or over night runs. Traveled through VT,ME,DE,NY,PA,VA,DC, and NYC a few times which i just do not like. When you work for MAINES you bid on your runs for 8 to 12 months at a time and that is a set run you keep. They may add a stop or two here and there and throw in a back haul once and a while. I made ok I guess. .20c per mile and .22c a case. usually there would be about 1400 cases on each trailer so drive 659 miles in one day plus 1400 cases would be $439.00 a day for a good run plus you get stop pay 3 bucks a stop and i would have about 2 to 3 runs a week. I got fired because we had a new transportation Manager start and he was trying to make me take runs on my days off and i would not except. they said I was no call no show but i did call and tell them i couldn't take the extra runs and i needed my days off. well they just stopped giving me runs. i would call and ask and they would say we dont need you tonight over and over. well finally i got a call from HR saying you have been fired for no call no shows. I filed for Unemployment and of course MAINES fought it. saying i was no call no show. i told the unemp. lady that i would send her my cell phone records proving i called everyday. So i won.. i have been on Unem. for about 5 months and decided i wanted to start driving dedicated or regional. but now I found out i have lost my license for 108 days for laps of insurance on my car. The DMV said i have to serve this penalty and there is no other way to pay to have it shortened. how hard will it be to get a driving job after i get my license reinstated? i have no tickets or charges otherwise for anything. no felony's. no overweight's and no speeding tickets. no accidents either. can someone help me out here will advise? thanks guys.
How hard will it be to get back into a company?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by AaronBarton, Aug 14, 2013.
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None of those are moving voilations, you should be able to get a job at a major.
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Lose ur lic for insurance laps? Ouch
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MAINE'S PAPER&FOOD is not in Maine. What a terrible joke!
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may i ask who owns/runs maine's now
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The 5 months plus 180 days of not driving is going to hurt you more than a suspension.
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I hear ya!!!!! Wadda ya dointhese daze?????
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