I don't want to start an argument here, but... more screening of new drivers

You have proof of this?

 

My own personal experience. 9 months at Roadway. Not a single dang one of them would do ANYTHING more than what was required in his union contract. I once got chewed out by a senior driver because I got in an old air-start tractor and it was out of air and I had to fire up the newer Volvo next to it and borrow some air off it's red hose to get this old White/GMC piece of junk to start. I got yelled at by an older guy with more seniority who said I should have gone back inside and wrote up the truck and got paid by the hour until the mechanics got it started. I mean .. COME ON!! Seriously??? That could have taken HOURS and I was headed to Springfield, MO and I just wanted to get moving so I wouldn't be excessively tired by the time I got there.

 

In other words, one time and it is your opinion not a fact.

Want to talk down on the unions, go to the political forum and have fun.

 

I could sit here and list lots more examples. That was just one.

 

Well, I have ran into lazy workers and such that were not a part of any labor organization and all.

It comes down to the nature of the person.

 

In order to spot stupidity one has to be a little above stupidity. Some of the instructors I've met would pass for the village idiot quite easily.

 

I agree...When I was in school, I thought they were very knowledgeable but quickly realized they only taught book knowledge and no real world knowledge which I feel a good instructor will impart, or at least should, whether required or not...As a flight instructor, I always made a point of teaching as much real world knowledge as possible since I felt it was equally, if not more, important to share...I hold no bad feelings towards my instructors though, they did their job...

 

Heirforce1, did you ever hear a guy on the radio, called CREEP ALONG?

 

Maybe not screening, but more proper training for new drivers, Had a rookie driver tell me one time, that driving a truck was the same as driving a car, took all I had not to punch him in the head, i did tell him to go home and never get in another truck as long as he lives