Millis OTR journal

I have a friend who was with Gordon and Gordon had dedicated Georgia Pacific in halsey Oregon with hi cube trls and yet heartland got rid of the hi cubes resulting in losing the account.

 

I was noticing more Swift trailers when I was still with Millis. I wonder if Swift will take over the yard jockeying, and if those drivers will be any better than the "Swifty Swift" types we all worry about?

 

My opinion or educated guess would be Millis has always had a good school/training program. Now they can/have turn MTI into HTI

 

I was told that was the main thing they wanted. But #### they bought a profitable trucking company too. You'd think they would want to keep it and the customers that make it such.

When I worked in IT I worked directly under a bunch of executives. They're dumb. I mean really, really dumb.

 

Speaking of training. With my last trainee I discovered I am I’ll equipped to handle special needs students. The woman just didn’t understand a thing I said. I felt like I was teaching a remedial driving course. 3 weeks and she still didn’t understand proper turn signal usage. Couldn’t get her to understand she wasn’t driving a car. Twice we missed truck parking in rest areas because she would blow by the turn. She drove to fast in truck stops, shippers, receiver, terminals.
I’ve only been driving for a little over 4 years now I still take it slow. Not her pouring down rain I look over and we are going 76 miles an hour. I’m done with her hope her next trainer has better luck or Millis just boots her before she kills someone.

 

I’ve had students like that before…folks like her will never get it…time cut their loss before it becomes a major loss by way of lawsuits when she does something stupid..it’s not if but when..

 

Having been around enough people that didn't learn to drive at Millis I'm not surprised when I see people do dangerous/stupid things. Like when I noticed the coolant was low by a gallon after being in the shop for a week and driven by a coworker earlier. How would that happen if people were doing their job? Or the guy that came flying through the truck parking on the Indiana tollway? He could have clobbered my truck if I hadn't slowed down to look before I drove through that part of the parking lot. I was really glad we had cameras then, even if nothing happened.

 

One of our safety messages yesterday was a reminder not to take a break on railroad tracks. Wish I knew what was behind that being sent out.

 

Airport runways are a bad choice as well......jus sayin

 

Maybe I should change my post about drivers that weren't trained by Millis.