Question about refusing to go to a load in a particular state due not feeling experienced enough

They didn't go over my head then because my family were a bit colorful. lol

 

That’s not how safety departments operate. Whatever they do, they will do regardless of the outcome. They may even take a couple weeks to make a decision and then suddenly, everyone at the company willl treat you like a child with the Ebola virus. You will not be allowed to move the truck from wherever you are, they will send someone for the truck.

You will be trying to figure out why they won’t let you drive home to clean the truck out, try to reason with them, and everything you say or ask will fall on deaf ears. There will be disciplinary action...they’re not going to just be understanding and okay. They’re going to either route you up to talk face to face with someone in Safety OR can you on the side of the road.

And no offense meant, but if you acted the way with them the way you do here in communicating with anyone from the company (your DM included), you know, the Dummy Card that your playing, they’re going to can you. May be a week, may be two, but some sort of disciplinary action is coming.

You know that speech you received from @ZVar that you didn’t like? Odds are pretty good that a member of your Safety department feels exactly the same. It will be something like you rolled through the house 2 days prior, but 1200 miles away from home, they will put you out on the side of the highway. And you will be trying to figure out why the heck they didn’t do that when you were near the house.

“Why would they do that, Six? That makes no sense.”

1. The restricted road
2. Hitting a stationary object
3. The pole falling down
4. The whole Hit and Run and leaving the scene of an accident charge.
5. Your weak excuses

Anyways, you might want to review Mr ZVars posts because odds are, they’re going to feel the same way.

Six back quiet.

 

You dont gain experience by saying no to a load. Experience is earned by doing new things (forgive me for getting to the party late)

 

I go on Parkway’s that allow trucks.. Obviously you’ve gotten some lousy training.

 

My trainer only used me too. I invested a lot of time in that relationship just to have him dump me after three weeks. All trainers are dogs.

 

Seems this got deleted for some reason. Not sure why. Much have been a glitch in the system.

@shogun what did you do?

 

Its hard to say. Maybe I was too helpful. Maybe I cared too much. Some people teach math to pay for trucking school, or win fishing tournaments. Few know about the Diesel Driving Academy sports scholarships.

And the schools don't check for warrants when you apply.

 

Any driver going to Jersey, trucks can use the GSP, ONLY south of exit 105, anywhere north of that is by permit only. Also, a CDL is as far as I know a is a federal license with a nationwide database, anything you do is chargeable to you're CDL no matter what state you live in. As far as being nervous about going places, the worst place I think I've spent the nite, was Biloxi, Miss, where even the crackheads have guns.

 

Now hold on there.

What it is is that Ive gone into Jersey and NYC with a semi because I was too stupid to be afraid. It's bigger than Baltimore and we have Sandtown, how hard can NYC be? HA...

My constant loads going up there formed a crucible. You know how you pour bad metals, burn until melt is reached and then toss the dross, the scum? In other words you gain experience by doing.

It's REAL difficult to talk to a 20 year trucker. Hes been there done that long before you were even selected to be born possibly.

Heck I cannot talk to some of my elders without being nibbled on this or corrected for that or taught about something else. Today's it's CPAP, Ive been eaten out of house and home on that subject, and deserve it too. I try to learn. But it's hard from where I am.

Trucking demands you to think and plan before you commit a wheel to a turning anywhere. Where you are going is going to matter. It's hard when you are younger. In some things.

Most of us remember without fail that we were toddlers once playing at this new thing called trucking. And somehow or another we managed to get away with it when so many have not.

Im not going to preach. But I will try to tell you that you have to grow a pair, get back in that tractor trailer and do better. You will find with enough prior information about any place you are going it's REALLY easy. Even secret military bases with a literal hole in the earth where you drive the whole thing down into the earth and back into a dock 200 feet below ground. It's all good.

 

Maybe I am reading this wrong but he says he's facing suspension question is for how long? because until that's fixed you can't drive. You keep driving and the first officer asks your CDL you are screwed. until it's resolved you can't drive for the company. The accident alone might get you terminated, don't tell them and keep driving you are facing all kinds of issues down the road. I know after a ticket you have to tell them after what 24-48 hours? An incident I think they want to know instant due they maybe want to drug test.

As for the loads you are the person driving not them I have had a experience, in NYC. So unless I am packing a sidearm I have no plans going back.