Just got fired....now what?

We hauled for the biggest dairy farm in the united states and i was covering for the original driver that was stuck up north in Wisconsin in the snowstorm.

The cows don't wait for know one, they all get pumped directly into the tank so the farm absolutely had to have a empty to pump into and Kroger runs a line that depends on that tank arriving on time

i told safety the incident happened because of fatigue and they acknowledged it and wrote it off as that. non reported

 

That is a double-edged sword in trucking at a lot of companies, when you're giving away your time for free, not getting paid for things.

 

Was never anymore unsafe than driving back country roads at 2 in the morning and not being able to stop my clock to rest.

It was a minor incident.

You didn't answer my question .

 

Did I ever haul out of a farm? Yes. I guess if you hit a person and didn't kill them it would be a minor incident, all for a glass of milk.

 

Yep, sitting 2-3.5 dats per week when you could / should be driving. It amazes me how drivers put up with this. Your time is valuable and it should be respected. Yes I know you might get a days detention pay ($100 or so) but for what? The same amount of time you could’ve drove in 1000 miles and earn $480 or so? No, no good! I gave my company and ultimatum on this crap. I won’t tolerate it anymore. If I come back to the yard and you don’t have a load for me I’ll pack a bag and get off the #### truck and you can call me when you’d like to get back to work. They literally expected me to just sit there anywhere from a few hours to a few days wondering when my load would be ready. LOL that’s your time. You’re not at home, relaxing in the recliner chair or with your family. You’re sitting on a truck and at their dumpy property with nothing to do waiting.....forget that crap....and you should be compensated.

 

That hard braking is a bunch of crap. I drive close to 50% of my miles on 2 lane roads. If i can get through a week of not having to brake hard for some knucklhead i consider it a odd week. Backing out of driveways on blind curves. ( when if you look at their house there is really no reason to do that). Slowing abruptly to look at turkey vultures or what ever. The reasons go on and on. One could think they are trying to get hit. Thats one reason i run a dash cam. Some of these people couldn't drive a flock of ducks to a pond.

 

I only brake hard enough to achieve the results a situation calls for.
No more No less.
Sometimes it's light and sometimes is heavy.

 

At first i thought that this comment was kinda silly. Then after thought, i have watched inexperienced drivers braking way to hard or to late. I figure not looking at surroundings until it requires a hard brake situation. But we all get taken by surprise. No one is perfect.

 

I have found that a lot of "hard" brakes happen when bobtailed. It just seems like it is harder to correctly apply the brakes. I know I set off a hard brake alert once because of this.

 

Sometimes I catch a stale light and decide to stop it takes a hard application.
Maybe I brake light to allow a merging vehicle space on the highway.
I do alot of in town driving and I am always 80 thousand.
With underpowered rigs momentum is my ally and unnecessary braking costs me $$.