misinformation you will hear....

this might be true sometimes but mostly its not or atleast not without consenquence.
NO FORCED DISPATCH!
My last company claimed no forced and so i declined a load one day to do some maintaince on my truck and my dispatcher threaten to fire me and when that didnt motivate my he gave me the next two days off. LOL

 

Favorite Bs quotes:
Truck drivers are a dime a dozen.
We have a WHOLE STACK OF RESUMES.
Looks like your truck has a short somewhere between the seat and the steering wheel.

 

if found to have been pout of gear, and the driver dead, leaves open a window for lawsuits against the company for improper operation of a motor vehicle or whatever the lawyers can come up with from that point.

ain't BS, just from the books the students must read, videos they must watch, tests they must pass.

he would have to explain that to the DOT officer when questioned, it would be up to the DOT officer to believe him or not

i'm glad you have "met" a few people in your life.... congratulations...

it's called. "no student left behind"....bring up your gripe about that to the individual school systems across this country.

this is the problem with the CDL Mills....they take anyone that can get a student loan....there SHOULD BE an IQ test before all else, but then probably 99.99 % would not be able to get those government student loans to keep the Mills open..

many of us CAN AND DO TEACH......what i find interesting about that stupid statement from you is that people are quick to say it, but cannot do it themselves...making YOU a part of the problem...for every time a trucker pokes fun at a newbie, for every BS story a trucker tells at the truck stops or on the cb radio, a newbie is misinformed, and MANY OF YOU SO CALLED EXPERTS feed off of the newbies gullibility...why don't YOU GET INVOLVED with training someone then...?? oh i know, you ain't go the time or you ain't got the patience, or you just DON'T KNOW how to teach....you only know trucking from one side......i know it from both sides...giving me an ADVANTAGE OVER YOU........

i quoted from a state CDL manual....believe what ever you will, the book spoke for itself, in fact, why don't you "google" that information yourself...??

that would be an ideal solution....but not always obtainable, some just get "lucky"...eventually, "luck" runs out...

again, i am so very happy for you, knowing how not to crash.....facts are, given the miles a professional driver does in a year, the odds are always against one for crashing at any given point and time. we do not expect students to crash, how can you determine anyone's odd's of not crashing, you got a crystal ball or something..?? we teach them the skills required to do the job right, and to pass the tests, isn't a school supposed to teach skills...???

again, read what the book said about the destructive power......unless you have no time to admit you are wrong.

you are dangerously close to saying,
"you know it all" which would then mean for you to pack it up and get out of trucking...you have just been "lucky" all this time, but i'll bet dollars to donuts, you had a "few" close calls in your time....that was luck then, wasn't it...???

again, they get information from books published by JJ Keller, a leading publisher of the trucking education , material even YOU have, and for one, that is the "green book", the hazmat guide, and others.....the DOT writes up what we need to know, JJ Keller prints up the books.....if you got a problem with what is or is not contained in those materials, write to all interested parties and complain, unless of course that is, you ain't got the time, a typical trucker's excuse...but you will find time to BIOTCH, the typical driver's time worst spent.....truckers got MORE time to BIOTCH, than to do good, which somehow takes more time...?????

the students "swallow" what they read, see on the videos, from the DOT, the insurance companies, from the trucking companies, from safety companies.....are you denying any videos about roll overs produced by Schneider...??? where they have someone driving on the skid pad, and try to avoid a jack-knife..??

are you denying any video by Penske himself mind you of what to do if a steer tire blows out and how to control the rig...??

we DO NOT show wally-world truckers videos, we show DOT videos.....and we have books the DOT has put out.....then there are the various websites for even MORE information...

discount all you wish, but facts remain, YOU cannot do what some of us can, and HAVE DONE over the years.....but yet you seem to be at ease for denying things.

good luck to you, your time behind the wheel is coming to an end soon enough, hope your luck doesn't run out anytime too soon, before YOU retire....

 

Wow blackw900, I guess he told you!!! And to think all these years you've been doing it totally wrong. I think a few of us on here could loan you some money to sign up for a class from rerun so you could learn to drive correctly.

I bet you don't even maintain 3 points of contact when you climb in your truck! You should watch a JJKeller video about that, do you know how many innocent women and children you've probably killed by not doing that alone?

Remember the DOT knows EVERYTHING!!! These are the same DOT officers that made one of my drivers "discharge his fire extinguisher to prove it worked" (yes the highway patrol received a nice phone call about that one.) Now imagine that same idiot with a badge doing an investigation on whether or not your truck was "in gear"

 

Don't worry about the public man....My "time behind the wheel is coming to an end", LOL!
RERUN is the poster child for what is wrong with this industry today, Filling student heads with CRAP! Then sending them out to go work for some bottom feeder and in 6 months to a year they're back on unemployment or working at Burger King. (He likes statistics and statisicly that is the case most of the time)
The more he says about this the dumber the message gets, I'll stack my 36 years as an O/O and 4,000,000 safe driving miles up against his BS any time!
RERUN says that not getting involved in accidents is all luck, Maybe it is for him and his students but for some of us it's about developing good habits and skills and it's also about knowing that someone could do something stupid around us at any moment and being as prepared as possible for that situation. An accident can happen at any time and RERUN is right about one thing, I have had near misses. The difference between a near miss and being involved was leaving myself an option and not being too close to the situation when it developed.
I've known and understood that from "day one" out here because it was drilled into my by the man that taught me the ropes of this business, Not by some schmuck that teaches you how to "pass the test" and sends you out there to wreak havock on the highway and the industry...

RERUN says that I would never take the time or posess the ability to "teach" someone to drive...As usual he is wrong!
I have taught a few drivers over the years how to operate the equipment (That part is easy) and how to run their own operation and how to deal with customers and secure freight on or in a trailer.
Most of the drivers that I taught are O/O's now and are doing pretty well as far as I can tell.

Do I think I know "all there is to know" about this business and about driving?

No...It's impossible to know everything about something that is in a constant state of change and therefore I like anyone else in life am in a constant state of learning. I have a lot of experience and a long record of performance, safety and success in this business and those things can't be taught, They need to be aquired over time.

So RERUN, Don't be too positive that my time is almost through....I'll be out here truckin' long after most of your "students" have failed at this or run out of "LUCK" and had that career ending accident due to their total lack of skill!

 

"Our best company drivers" averaged $65,000 last year.. What percentile was this?? Are they dispatches favorites? Running illegal logs?? And what of the other "drivers?"

 

"Don't idle it it will burn up the injectors"

"Reving it to 2100 can destroy it"

 

yep, keep that in mind....and "you go with the rest of your BS as well".