Need Help - Stuck with very bad company

Starting to sound like a bogus thread but here goes. Put your app on sites like "Best Trucking Jobs" they will go to many customers at once. You will be getting calls the next day.

 

I'm not much of a trucker, I drive a bit but I'm going to put my $.02 in because I am intamently firmilur with these situations. I am a Commercial Pilot and in Aviation we see the same sort of BS all the time. What are you going to do when you land at a remote village on the coast of the bearing sea and find out your return load is way over weight? The Weather is below legal minimums? You have a piece of inop equipment? Its all the same stuff we see. A guy has to make a decision right then and there. In aviation it's called exercising your PIC (pilot in command) authority.

Now, I wouldn't imply that nobody pushes the rules a bit. Everyone has or does but I played the PIC card only when the risk out weighed the rewards. I also learned a few little tricks so the bosses thought I was doing what was asked while in fact, I was keeping it legal.

A Pilot Certificate is very much like a CDL in that, if/when you auger one in it'll be your rear end that either dies, gets violated, or goes to jail. I've seen it happen, watched it happen to friends and heard even more horor stories than I can remember about guys letting the boss or the pressure of getting the job done interfear with exercising good judgment. And if you think the company will say "Yeah we told hime to drive more than the legal limits etc. you're dreaming. It's 100% on you.

All that said I learned the hard way that I would never leave a company without another job lined up. It's another step in covering your rear end. I, like the OP sat for a year unemployed. Finally I got mad and cashed in every favor (and got lucky) and took a job bush flying. A year later I left for reasons such as 15 days away from the family was too much, the environment was extreemly high risk and all that... And now I drive a little, fly a little, fence a little and just get by.

But the point is to be employed before you quit. You have to remember that it's cheaper for this guy to get mad and yell at you when you pull over to sleep than it is to fly another driver out to recover the rig I would think. When he yells tell him you were going to crash if you didn't stop and you didn't want to be the reason the insurance dropped him

Just my 2 cents...

 

When you start getting interviews and they ask why you left your previous employer, keep your talk about them as positive as you can. Employers always side with their "own" when it comes to references and chances are good you won't get the job if you talk negative. Start thinking now about how you're going to answer that question because they will ask and you definitely don't want to be surprised by it.

 

Conflicting interest is always a good response.

If they ask for detail. Home time and pay scale are a good default.

 

I haven't even bothered to read all the posts.
Basically you have him, that badge represents a lot of people. The DOT ? isn't afraid of him.
Document all to show he is bending the logs after they are written? Like driving 500 miles in two hours?
You testemony in court will level him. The judge and state police reralize that if somone runs over a car it would affect a lot of tax payers. You boss would get fried. period.
Also you will do a lot of good for a lot of drivers. Just don't make up lies. Or try to "get even". The treat of prison will make his house of cards fall.

 

Try this...swallow your pride and be a man...tell him come get his freakin truck and shove it sideways, catch a bus home and find a job like you found that one

 

This is one of the DUMBEST things anyone in trucking could do. Abandoning a truck is BAD!!! Bad Advice, revenge is not good this way.

 

Excuse me if he said park the truck if you will not haul an overweight load how is that abandoning? Read before you speak

 

This is what you said.

 

Again READING IS REQUIRED...I said that in response to this post