Just some of the stupid things I see

Nick I agree........but there is the day to day reality and then there is the "we want trucking safer"....it is truly a hard spot for a newcomer in the industry to be in! Not nagging, not whining, just saying it truly is tuff! My bottom line personally....I want to drive a truck.

 

And every one of these bottom feeders know just how tough it is on a driver. But really, they don't give a ####. As long as the load is delivered on time, and they get paid for it, they could care less what happens to you. After all, there are fifty more standing in line when you are gone.

 

50 more of me? Yikes! lol

 

I know. Scary, isn't it?

 

Oh hell yes The loser that I am on Leave from right now is one of those. As long as his prescious potatoes make it to the chipping plants he could care less. I shoulda let his Gdamn truck burn down in Illinois but my f!##ing reflexes kicked in and I got the fire out and the truck and trailer towed before a trooper rolled by....I saved his axx bigtime. Then less than a month later I blow my shoulder out trying to lower the landing gear enough to get out from under it and Now I've been off work since then they denied me work comp, and now that unemployment is gonna kick in he is gonna appeal. He ran unsafe equipment pushes his drivers too hard and doesnt give a rats. But everyone I know says that I"M being a crybaby cause I wanted to turn his sorry axx in to the DOT. Well the jokes gonna be on him.....drivers safe stat score 96% companies safe stat score 80% they wont be around long with crap like that going on.
And DB I'll pm you the names his truck run under so if they cross your path you can get them for any number of violation logs, no license , under the influence, trailers etc.....I dont know if they run thru your area but at least 3/4 of these guys run however they want and just MAKE the log look legal

 

Woot keep up the good work DB. I got to talk to a db the other day in MT. So he pulled me around back looked at my papers and then said lets walk out side. I was like my wt is good I just left the cat scale 30 miles back. I was like great here we go this is going to be fun. Wonder if I overlooked something in my pretrip this morning. He was said relax I just want to show you something on your hood. I was baffled. So we walk on out. And he shows me something. In my rush to clean the windows, scale the truck and get back on the road asap. I didn't get the passenger side latch on the hood latched all the way. He sent me on my marry way.

 

Nik Get yourself a workers comp attorney, ASAP!

 

I did I'm screwed blued and tatooed because there is no "medical proof" 5 different lawyers told me that. All of my injuries are " preexisting"......I was floored....I may never be able to drive again because my neck is so messed up I was dragged out of the Haubstadt Indiana pilot in a meat wagon because they thought I was having a stroke, I told the ambulance crew that I had hurt my shoulder a few days prior and I thought it was maybe a pinched nerve....funny thing was that statement is NOWHERE in the medical notes...imagine that.....and here's the sick thing...the ER they took me too was full of overdose cases...I guess they figured that since I have long hair, a couple of tatoos and was wearing a concert t-shirt I was on drugs....after the drug screens came back showing I was clean they said I had a migraine and gave me scripts for vicadin, and flexarill. So I'm 3 grand in the hole to that hospital and have been off work since the end of June, denied w/c and just got my first unemployment check.....and now my boss is gonna fight that.....I really am po'd because we were working on the biz plan to get fianancing to get my own rig and get going on my own, well that aint gonna happen now because I cant trust my health.......###### if Ido ###### if I dont