Major Carrier (Can't Name Co.) - New CDL Drove Team For Leased O/O; Attempted Murder

Discussion in 'Report A BAD Trucking Company Here' started by Hitchhiker, Oct 23, 2013.

  1. samuel2006ok

    samuel2006ok Bobtail Member

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    Delete this post thanks.
     
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  3. Hitchhiker

    Hitchhiker Bobtail Member

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    Actually, I don't know about this story being on another Thread at another website, since I put up the posting only here, as soon as I read it on Real Women in Trucking, back in October. I also do not know the name of the carrier the woman was employed by - although someone else wrote a comment above saying they do know, and may have more info. Since there are only a dozen or so big carriers which hire newbe's - and since many of those have been identified as having serious deficiencies - I don't think it matters which company it was.

    You know what I mean. Take your pick. Really.

    There is a 'culture' which is at work here. On one side is the drivers, male and female, who have to drive looking over their shoulder at the company monster that is always there, waiting to pounce, more often than to help. Sorry for the image, but think about it.

    Will the driver get mugged tonight? Will their rig be sideswiped in a truckstop parking lot? Will they have an unexpected health crisis or family emergency? Will they find themselves out of hours, with absolutely nowhere to go? Will the DOT find something wrong at an inspection and shut 'er down? Did they pick up a trailer and hit the road, without having the time to weigh the axles at some scales nearby? Will they be hours on the phone waiting for help after a breakdown?

    "Welcome to trucking," right... but it all keeps rolling, I believe, because everyone has a guardian angel. Clearly, the woman in this story had one, or else the man who was her team driver would have killed her. After she blacked out, she still woke up.
     
  4. TAC12

    TAC12 Light Load Member

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    WOW!!!!! Amazed!!! I won't speculate on the actual events but I will say that I am a former deputy and still mandated by my state. I have only been out of my agency for 2 months. I will say that there are NO laws to mandate an officer to make an arrest for any crime other than federal statue. Meth and etc... type crimes.
    Nothing from a domestic law. However, it is very common practice for all LEO to have policy that if an offender can be identified then probable cause is obtained to make an arrest. It appeared to me that "the story of the non-arrest" of the offender was for reason she was a female driver??? I can assure that is not a true statement. I have made mulitple arrest on male offenders regardless of the female occupation in many domestic cases. I can assure you that no matter what city, county or state, if a female or male has visible signs of injury that are conclusive to the story, someone would be going to the pokie.

    Never would a citation be issued for a domestic case with such of a degree. The way it would have panned out would have been the female would have taken a ride to the E.R for treatment and the male subject or offender would have been placed under arrest and taking to a local hospital for a mental evaluation. once cleared by medical he would have been transported to county for process and charged with Aggravated Battery or Attempted Homicide (depending on the State would depend on the actual charge) (the statement of the claims made by the offended would have proven malice and therefore he would have been faced with a higher degree of crime) Perhaps there is more to the story as I have found out ALL times there is indeed 3 sides......His.....Hers....and the Truth!!! We can never know why people do or say the things they do or motivates them to tell it!!!!!!!!!!!

    Just my 2 cents!!!!:biggrin_2556:
     
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  5. falcon241073

    falcon241073 Heavy Load Member

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    Ummmm...." since I put up the posting only here, as soon as I read it on Real Women in Trucking, back in October."

    So you got it from another web site?

    Thats what was said.... you copied it from another web site. Doesnt matter where from. That was the point. You contradicted your self innthe same sentence.

    As for the original story. I really hope it is an over inflated BS story. I cant imagine cops not arresting the guy if its even remotely true. But since the woman who claimed this happened is not here to explain we will never know.
     
  6. TAC12

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    Hitchiker,

    What do you mean a culture is "at" work?....You speak of the tragic story and then in the next sentence you speak of the major trucking "monsters" companies. Without reading post from others of this incident, it appears that it has become a metaphor or a parable. The female represents the new drivers, naive, young and weak in her attempts to barely survive. The monster, of course to represent, as you stated the "Big 10" chocking the life out of drivers for there substance which in our case would be pay represented my "breathe" of the female, as we cling on to our life. LEO, being the po-po represents truth, authority and "whats right" and by doing nothing to the offender would say no matter how wrong the Big 10 is treating the drivers, yet they still stay.

    One post I read stated that until drivers (mainly, I think they were speaking to new drivers but anyway), until they stop excepting low pay wages and demand a higher call for this profession, safer equipment, etc..Idk, these are just some thoughts I had on the post...But one thing is true, it is only the people that are making it possible for people or companies to treat them as the do. Your either part of the solution or your part of the problem........
     
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