Need advice ASAP, Company won't get me back to the yard.

When I was at the company, I was before this one I’m at now, I knew it was pretty bad. I could write a book on the crap I put up with there, but I told myself just to grind it out, keep my record spotless, and then I was going to get in with a much better company and that’s exactly what I did. No company is perfect. There’s just too many variables in this industry. And those variables come up almost every day. And we get to deal with them. But when a driver has had enough and they would like to quit, they shouldn’t have to put up with the stuff This original poster is. 16 stops on a 2000 mile load and then having him sit for eight days before the load is even ready? That’s just nonsense. That’s someone messing with him because he wants to quit.

 

I leased onto a company for 1 yr. I had heard stories of cheating O/Os on their last settlement. So, I told them my Truck blew a head gasket. Needed money to get fixed. Got my money, and quit. The Moron got mad. “You screwed Me”. Lol.” Sure did, I heard all about how you rip people off when they quit. “ People like that make me sick and deserve to be humiliated. I take great pleasure in playing dumb, and turning it around in the end. I’m real good at it. The results are total humiliation. Just what they deserve.

 

Yup, that works too. Sometimes I think of them as the same people. LOL

 

Good. Make sure you get all your money though.

 

What’s really sad is we’re not even paid that well for the job. Look at engineers doctors heck weather guessers. They can be wrong and still get another well paying job.

 

I’d like to know who the company is?

 

It's a mistake to understand my "look before you leap" advice as "working at any company you hear about produces the same results as working for companies that treat drivers like humans."

Would you recommend tourists going to the casinos in Las Vegas pay no attention to which casinos have high rates of crime on the casino floor since they probably all have exactly equal rates of crime? Or if one casino has double the rate of crime as another casino it's impossible to know what the crime rate is so just pay no attention to the stats and ignore the spine tingling nervousness you get from the atmosphere at the higher crime casino.

I think a lot of the "all trucking companies are alike" comes from people that refuse to look for the details, claim nobody can tell the difference between good & bad so don't waste time looking, or their behavior is responsible for similar behavior no matter where they work. There are good, bad, in-between companies. There are good, bad, and in-between drivers. Pretending companies or drivers are the same isn't reality. It's an excuse. Obviously the OP is being forced out. Unless he is the first driver the company forced to quit he likely ignored signs or didn't think the company would treat him this way for some reason. There are at least 2 ways to not know something. 1) no information was there to be discovered, or 2) eyes were closed to information. Drivers keep working for companies that mistreat drivers. Don't do that. Avoid the situation before it happens by looking into a company before you go there. Reading a company web site is not a guarantee, it's an ad for the company.

 

Engineers have at least a strict 4 year course of study & extensive professional testing. CDL school is 3 weeks.

It's not fair to skip 4 plus years of rigorous math & physics courses and think not knocking over an orange cone is a similar test.

You can choose a job with a lot of study & discipline or you can choose to avoid all that. Choices have consequences, not same results. Make good choices.

 

Driver can work at another trucking company. Why can't you or the OP become "weather guessers"? Why not pass the courses & tests and become an engineer?