Pets ? Really?

If I owned trucks and set policy, my pet policy would be case-by-case. I would allow some drivers to have a huge dog and some drivers no dog bigger than a parakeet, and other drivers no pet at all. I also probably wouldn't hire 90% of the drivers looking for a job, which would sink my trucking business. That's why I would NEVER run any trucking business bigger than one truck and driver. I don't know how many drivers are dirty and filthy because the job has broken their will and how many are simply losers that finally found a job that allows them to be as lazy and filthy as they want. It takes a lot better man than me to run a business, especially a trucking business. Driving 1 truck is more than enough stress for me.

 

Totaly agreed !

 

It's their job, they decide. My past company prohibited long hair, visible tattoos, and beards until a few years ago. The great thing about that was you only ever worked with other people who didn't mind those restrictions. Now that everyone seems to be trying to adopt the ex-con look they loosened their grooming standards. Everyone gets to make choices, even bosses.

 

All pet rocks or no black pet rocks?

 

Ok. I've been thinking on this. Let's say the driver DID have eight 200lb range dogs in her truck. That's an extra 1,600lbs.

Each of those dogs will consume an average of 2lbs of dry food per day. 16lbs of food per day.

Plus a half gallon of water per day...4.2lbs per half gallon is 34lbs of water per day.

So...if this driver is out for 10 days with the eight 200lb dogs and food and water for everyone for 10 days... The extra weight is around 2100lbs. Now this does not account for toys, bones, leashes, cleaning materials, blankets, vacuum etc.

 

LOL

 

They're cats, they're waiting for a better offer.

 

Pets are people too

 

You're the boss your choice matters more than most people's The difference between this job and others is MOST jobs don't require you to be away from everything else in your life for weeks and sometimes months at a time. Think of trying to hire someone to work in a cubicle with a normal schedule. Now think of trying to hire someone to man a guard shack in the middle of nowhere where the work only allowed the employee to come home every 3-8 weeks for a couple of days. A lot fewer people would volunteer for that isolation. A few people would only volunteer if they could have some companionship. What if you had a great candidate that wanted to take the job, but wanted to bring his pet parakeet, or guinea pig? There's no risk to the employer and the benefit to the employee seems tremendous. I'm sure most of us with pets take better care of them than most people. I wouldn't blame any employer who's had some thug life driver with his thug life dog, both destroying the truck, saying no dogs. But that's far different than some 58 year old with an 8 pound poodle who sleeps all day. I wouldn't want the first one in my CITY. I wouldn't worry if the second was in my restaurant. And, most importantly I've never been a boss or business owner. You gotta do you, so you decide. It's the fairest system in the world, even if Commie-Libs call it a war-crime, or worse.

 

Having a pet is almost as much companionship as another human, but a ton less arguments.

Also, my dog woke me up twice to desperadoes approaching the truck. She also missed alerting me to the scariest "surprise" <shudder> I had when OTR, so we talked about that later.