I pulled a copy of my DAC report and found out......

Also, there is a huge difference between being in a secured area and refusing vs. simply not going.

 

One more last point and I think I will be done with this topic for now. This crap was never a serious problem until the FMCSA created the MRO clearinghouse. A driver could refuse to do the pre-employment test and the MRO would just file it away. In fact, most carriers never bothered even starting a chain of custody form. Almost all of the better carriers still let a sleep dog lie and just file it away. The clearinghouse has altered so much when it comes to this process. I don't like it. Just as I don't like the crap pushing the sleep studies etc. But, there is nothing I can do to change any of it.

 

Exactly, my point. It is fraud. I have never said otherwise. It's a fraud that is allowed because of the grey areas in the rules. It stinks that the FMCSA allows carriers to pull this BS. Zvar you know the regs as well as I do, in some cases maybe better. Do you know of any process set up by the FMCSA that allows for an appeal? Short of a lawsuit I know of none.

 

I was sitting here listening to music and was attempting to recall all the threads and comments where people were telling their horror stories where a carrier screwed them over. Messing with their pay. Firing them for not making deliveries when the driver was there. I remember one not too long ago where a driver was charged with a preventable after he quit and the carrier said there was damage to his tractor, SAME tractor that was inspected in his presence. I don't think that was in TTR. Do any of you think that a carrier being vindictive would not send in a chain of custody form? Remember in the end it is the carriers word against the driver. Who is believed most of the time? This is the BS that makes me want to cuss!

 

FYI: some cryo jobs will pay so much per mile while the rig is moving... but then so much per hour while not moving, but on duty. This method can...at times...work to your advantage.

Fuel jobs are all over the place: some pay strictly by the hour, some pay strictly by the load, and some pay by the load...but with a minimum weekly guarantee (and what the criteria for the guarantee is....varies by carrier, of course).

--Lual

 

Keep this in mind..great companies generally never have to advertise..there’s a reason…there are great jobs in this industry..

 

What are you going to do instead of trucking?

 

Suggestion: If you haven't already--change jobs, and give the tanker sector an honest try.

If you honestly don't like it--then leave the trucking industry.

--Lual