how hireable is someone like this?

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  1. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    Today he said i dont carry my own weight (he means i go the speed limit and thats too slow for him). He was patting himself on the back about because i go "too slow" he has to carry my weight and speed the whole way to "catch up".

    I tried so hard not to laugh. Dude is a legend in his own mind.
     
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  3. Shaggy

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    We know it's you. :biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559::biggrin_2559:

    Show the rolled trailer !
     
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    lol. I almost did my second day OTR though. #### near crapped my pants. Got the fear of God in me since that day.
     
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    Shaggy Road Train Member

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    How did it happen ?


    Let out the story, you know want to come clean and tell all the details !
    You owe it too us now...
     
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    Well what this dumb ### was doing is flying downhill during WINTER on I70 in Colorado. Lost control and flipped the teailer. Obviously, i dont know what else he expected to happen.

    In my case dint remember the highway maybe you guys do i was traveling east i believe in kansas going to dodge city to pick up some chopped up cows of course. It was a very narrow two lane highway one on each side and no shoulder. A semi was coming in the opposite direction and my trainer (different one with central refrigerated) told me to go to the right of my lane to safely pass the trucker. Well i went slightly too far to the edge and the right side tires on 4th and 5th axle go on the edge and i felt it try to suck the entire truck and trailer into the ditch. I corrected myself and saved the truck thank God that trucker had passed and there were no other vehicles around. I learned a valuable lesson that day.
     
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    Shaggy Road Train Member

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    It was side road 4-20w just outside colorado springs,Kansas . Did you pull off next safe area to do so and count your blessings?!?! Glad you are still with us GenericUserName. Very close call
     
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    Wild Murphy HAPPY TRUCK DRIVER

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    ####, I have been driving for 2 months now and I haven't come anywhere close to rolling a trailer. I must be doing this wrong.
     
  9. GenericUserName

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    Dont get too prideful. Thats foolish in this industry. Every so often i do but i have a self-humbling mechanism built into my brain that kicks in when needed. ;)
     
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    I wonder why his company hasn't fired him.
     
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    Least most impressive post on this thread. Check the ego at the door.
     
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