My Tenure is Over

When I originally thought I wanted to make the jump to otr I contacted swift thinking if I could last a year or two at a starter company like that I knew I could do it for life anywhere else. I called them and talked to a recruiter. Not one single #### given about 18 years at UPS accident free...not didn't even care a lil bit. When I decided to go driving that was the first thing out of my mouth when I would talk to a perspective employer because I thought people would like to see A. Job stability B. 18 years of delivering in a city without hitting anything...like I thought I was golden and people would be jumping to hire me. Not 1 single otr company cared about any of that. I talked to everyone from swift to some decent tanker companies and nobody cares. The local and ltl companies were interested however. That kinda scared me away from otr too, it seems like they don't care if they hire crap bags as long as someone is holding that steering wheel.

 

Right?? It seems counterproductive to hire somebody with 0 experience in driving over somebody like urself been doing it for 18 years. Even guys that drive dump trucks and end dumps, mixer guys, even ltl, they try to go otr and get treated like they did you. The same as having 0 experience . if it was me id much rather have somebody that knows how to manuever in tight places like cities, since thats where most the wrecks happen. I wonder why they dont count that kind of driving as experience

 

Truckers’ 90-Mile Road-Rage Battle Kills Woman, Companies To Pay $26 Million - TruckersReport.com

The last sentence of the article sums it up pretty well.
“Hogaboom no longer works for the company. He now drives for Swift Transportation.“

 

Look at temp staffing agencies. They want you JUST smart enough to keep showing up to the assigned company so they can pimp your labor. A GOOD temp gets a hire on offer from the company which means the temp agency loses a slot and a minion. So they dont want good, they want good enough.

18 years of good employment at UPS? A mega knows youll tell them to shove it in a few months. They want fresh, ignorant meat because statistically it stays to be exploited for longer while demanding less.

 

Apparently our new KW's with their CMS congratulate the driver on good braking/following
The two Mack Anthem's I drove in 2018 both had CMS, on cruise they sucked, the incessant beeping in city traffic made me want to kill someone.

 

We all gotta start at the bottom, or work our way there

 

What made it worse, I loved both those trucks, even after I wrecked the one

 

How the heck did you do that?

 

Swift sucks anyways.... your better off.

Try smaller companies....