Quitting one company for another.

No sir not necessarily. And no flaming here.

Many companies I ran for, about 20 or so out of 30, Failed to be good people and I jumped ship. Sometimes in a week or few. several companies and I crossed swords over business. One is a billion dollar out fit and one driver is nothing to them. Eliminate him and move on. So a company can go bad in a variety of ways, usually they go out of business.

Which then buries my problems with them. There is nothing to check for any employer I apply to in the future. I just account for the 7 years time. (Long before 9-11) AFTER 10 years whatever the problem is wiped. There is literally ZERO records on me in trucking anywhere including paid searches into the revelant databases with one exception Covenant. They sent me to Orientation 96' for 4 hours and kicked me out saying not for hire, persona non grata. FMCSA ruled they were allowed to hire drivers without hearing aids as a stricter level of choosing applications beyond minimum DOT regs. Covenant maintains a private living document servers with ALL drivers invovled with them with a consortium of about 14 other companies participating in this to get around DAC and other's 10 year limit on bad things. It's a private database. Should they last 10,000 years my damning 4 hour firing from Orientation is written as such.

BIG deal. whoopie. a minor kerfluffle. Out of memory unless I call on it to type here. (Don't get me started on their family and covenant with God talk in that room that morning. It's not for the non believers.)

Anyway...

A driver hiring onto a company. will be a good driver? We'll see. I hired onto Ronnie in Batesville many years ago and his was a first class operation in every way. Everything I could wish for. And so. Later that year I was given a number of loads out of Marybelline to Texas which for me is not a run I enjoy usually because I have to fight the Ozarks and Buffalo River from Missouri or some such to load there for next day delivery. It does not work out well that way.

Several loads were late, that's on me. Dowdy had to pay a lot of money on those late loads. At one point it was enough of a loss to encourage him to decide enough is enough out I go.

And so be it I was out. The money talks. People don'\t matter. When they cost too much money they are O U T. END. Done. Finished.

And that is why many people sit and cry tears thinking that somehow they are staked on ants out west being abused by companies out to get them. If they were poor drivers or not doing good for whatever reason (You wanna know? I needed 10 days minimum home time and had it coming around 15 days earned off... running tired) they are eliminated.

That does not change my feelings towards his company. I consider that for solo trucking a prime of my time out there in this life. FFE and other medical million dollar loads in Memphis combined with a 5 million plus to CT in 9-12 will come later in my life. Bigger than Dowdy believe it or not. He is a good guy, a good company. But time is mismanaged and so on costing him too much money.

(Take it out of my pay. but they don't do that today, this is a generation of new drivers that don't understand if they pop a trailer tire, 300 dollars it goes from their pay to buy a new one. They get to take the old tube home as they now own it as a reminder. how many tires will you take home before you learn the skills needed to quit tearing them off?)

No, we don't treat today;s young drivers that way. But so it goes.

There are two trucks sitting on the east coast patiently waiting for me to show up and fire them up at sunrise. We have work to do. I have those jobs for life regardless of my situation.

 

I worked for western express a few years ago. I gave no notice. I sent a message to cancel my load and I’m bringing my truck in. That was that, they are used to it lol. And to this day my DM still calls me to see when I want to come back.

 

Two companies called me regularly for years after 2002. I finally informed each that I am a medical patient and must be off the road. They said call us when ever you get going again if at all possible

One of those might be getting that call. We'll see. Sawbones and his knife will determine that.

 

It's business.

I am a little bit of a unsociable monster with many wheels in my head working out what when where how and so on.

Horse, saddle and soldier last kind of thing. If I heard noises of a negative manner from dispatcher then we will have a talk, that will decide both of our futures.

 

^^^^^^ THIS. Exactly WHY 'newbies' can't rely on ANY reviews on the interweb anymore; be it Glassdoor, Indeed, heck even Snapchat or Facebook (neither of any I use..) because people that ef'd themSELVES up, have nothing but TIME ON THEIR HANDS to bash the 'company' that 'did them wrong' .. Kinda reminds me of that old 60's song.. but sleep and song eludes me.. (the 'somebody done somebody wrong song' if y'all feel like looking it up.)

Six ALWAYS says it best, O/P.

Best Wishes~!

 

That’s 10 minutes from me. Hope it’s better than what you got. Never heard of them but good luck.