Knight Refrigerated and I are finally done!

Good morning Dave,
I was just sitting on the back patio at my parents' house thinking about what I might say to you. I came back inside, sat down at the computer in my dad's office and went to your thread. I had thought and thought about what to say and finally came up with something absolutely brilliant. But I'm not going to share it with you now - you've got your own solution and it was there all along - "Aint it funny how God works sometimes?"

 

Ya know Dave, I've gotta say, It's refreshing to see someone honest enough to admit that they might not be ready to buy a truck!

Kudos to you for that!

You really do need to work on the temper thing though...I know 'cause I had a terrible and quick temper when I was younger and it usually caused more problems for me than it cured.
I know for a fact that one company that I was leased to in the 70's didn't terminate my lease bacause they were afraid of what I might do and then they tried to starve me out but that didn't work either...

I'm a lot easier to get along with these days because most of the time you learn as you go and after a while you have a better perspective on things.

You have to work at it though...

Sorry to hear about the loss of the job...But it will probably wind up being a good thing in the long run, Anyone can see ffrom your posts that you hate OTR work and so maybe now you'll find something that you're better suited for.

 

Invisable ink ????????????

 

I always take such glowing references with a grain of salt...
Earlier this year I had some things to take care of at home for a couple of months. I decided to hire a driver for my truck so it wouldn't be sitting for all of that time.

I took a bunch of applications and narrowed it down to a couple and brought them in for a second interview and a road test.
One of them had reference letters from everyone he had ever worked for and they all claimed that he was "the best driver we ever had". He drove well and interviewed well so I hired him with the understanding that he would be in my truck for a couple of months and then he would go into another truck when I came back.

When I took my truck back, He quit! It's a good thing too 'cause if he'd been around when I found out about all of the things he screwed up on my truck, He'd have had a problem with me.
He was dispised by all of my regular customers and by all of the other guys that he worked with. He constantly pissed and moaned about everything that he was asked to do. He was constantly late with the freight and yet he spent all of his time telling me and anyone else that would listen how great he was and how lucky I was to have gotten him on my truck!

I learned two things from the experience:

1. I will park it next time and will never even consider hiring another driver.

2. Maybe sometimes these companies just write a glowing reference letter to get a guy out of their hair.

I'm not necessarily pointing this at you Dave, You have your issues but you are at least honest enough to admit and be trying to deal with them to a certain extent.
I'm just sayin' that letters of reference are in my opinion not worth the paper they're written on.

 

Dave,....Take a look at every ltl in your area. The only place most will take an application is online.

Visit every one of them as well,.....If you don't bother them a little bit they wont know who you are.

It might take some time on the dock,...But in the long run it can be a very rewarding way to be a driver and a family man,...

 

Don't give up. With 11 months experience you should be able to get a local job driving dump truck or cement mixer, they are always looking for people. It's not a bad gig, home every night at least. Need to calm down a little though, no one wants a hothead working for them. Trucking is a tough business but it pays well. Good luck.

 

if you know you got a problem ! You got half the battle whipped! Make that change my Brother!