I really need help

Understood. Wish I had a better answer for you. Good luck.

 

There is a Trucking Jobs link up top use it get on phone and call and be truthful Good Luck

 

There is more than one solution to most problems. You don't have to go to school if you don't want to, but each solution has a price tag, and the cost of learning from your own, direct experience, is often much higher than the cost if benefitting from the experience of others.

You can go into the trucking business for yourself. I think I speak for everyone here, when I say that it is your best interests to go back to school before you do anything else. At least allow someone to give you a positive evaluation, behind the wheel, to take with you to that next carrier...

 

Did you back often? If concentration is your problem,
perhaps you need to see a doc and make sure your getting all of your nutrients. Choline and omegas ,then your minerals and vitamins.
If all else fails,maybe some supplements like racetams.
Heres a link
http://www.powdercity.com/collections/cognitive?page=2

Also, get your PSP, your mvr and your hireright report,to see whats on there.
If everything has been tried, everything,
get a desk job. Just sayin

 

But those parking lot accidents were nothing major. The OP said so. When it's not your truck and you're not paying for the damage it's never anything major.

 

That made me smile.

 

That team trainer's time is valuable, too - probably more valuable than the output you can produce, under his tutelage. Remember, he could be driving, and producing more revenue than you are likely to be able to, but instead, he's training you. The truck could be producing more, with a trained and qualified team, than with a trainer and self-described "obstinate" trainee. Where is the value, to your carrier or your trainer, in training you on the job? This is why schools cost money. Check with your local employment office - they may have job-training grants or other subsidies, to help you.

Getting another carrier to take a chance on you, with no apparent value to the carrier for doing so, and substantial risk/liability for trying... well, that's not an especially thoughtful approach to solving your problem. You've had a couple of chances. It's your turn to be the one going out on a limb.

 

And now for something completely different.

The only thing that will keep you from being a trucker is if you quit. The only one who can tell you that you do not belong on the road is yourself.

I, like yourself, was not a natural truck driver. There is a lot going on. It isn't just jumping in the truck and driving down the road. You have to remember there is a trailer behind you. I have knocked down poles, signs, trees, run over curbs which blew tires and bent rims. I have destroyed 2 trucks and three trailers. I have been fired by at least 8 companies. I now have 12 years in this industry, have my own trucks and trailers, and my own authority.

It took me 3 years to be good at backing. And by good, I mean, most of the time I got into the dock. Now any dock is easy. I learned to drive the trailer backwards, not just point it and pray.

Keep at it. If you haven't been hired by March, give me a private message. I will be hiring again then.

 

You are going to have to stop trying to hire on to companies that use DAC. You will spend some time away from OTR a while. Months or even years. You are better off finding something close to home.

Your story changes about 4 times. Which is it? backing? Concentration? etc. Carriers will not hire on someone with property damage accidents that are preventable. Not for a long while. It is what it is.

This is a free country, if you like trucking that much buy a truck and strike out on your own. You will learn everything there is to know the hard way.

The first year of anyone with a new CDL from school is usually the worst. Sometimes the last year anyone does trucking if the losses are high enough. Not everyone will be able to go OTR and there is probably not a single successful OTR driver who has not a ding or two in the past. Hell Ive taken out three cars in my time. Each of which had a price in terms of lost employment etc. But I worked around the first two by hiring onto a paving outfit that does not do DAC nor cared as long I don't kill anyone with that truck in the work.

 

Sorry to agree with everyone else, but you're gonna have to bite the bullet and either take out a loan/ dig up a grant/ or save up the cash doing something else and go back to school.

See, you've had 2 chances already. And you've hit stuff. Repeatedly. Not only does this cost the carrier fix it money, but depending on the accident, it could be getting to their insurance as well. And insurance is already charging highway robbery rates for good drivers with NO accidents.

Think about it this way: you just bought your wife/girlfriend a brand new $160,000 car. She runs in to something. You sigh, get over it and pay to fix it. Then it happens again. So you buy another $160k car. And again she hits stuff. So, tell me, OP, are you gonna buy her another?

I think the only kind of car you're gonna buy her after that is going to have bicycle pedals under the driver's seat.

Same deal. Except you're the wife.