Shootout at Flying J I-10/301 Florida

Holy ####, I recognize that Pilot... I spent 3 days shut down there waiting for the planners to get me the last load I had with Swift. Place really didn't give me that bad of an impression... kinda unnerving to have been so wrong about something like that. You just never know, I guess

 

A crazy person can show up anywhere, even places you get a good impression from.

 

I was sent on two situations to get another truck and Company Officers went with me. Heavy hitters. They can darn well go get their own trucks themselves because they have their own CDLA and all the authority and power of the company that they are a Officer of (Vice President, Board Member etc) they don't need little old me to bother them with the getting of that precious truck that has been abused by the angry driver. They wont take a risk and drive that thing oh no. Let's grab a patsy, a pawn, a proxy dead man to risk driving that thing back. God only knows whats been done to it which means you check it very carefully. That takes a few hours. And if you did find stabotage, then the Law is involve to document everything, which is where the Officer of the Company comes in. You go to get dinner while they sort all that out and decide if you are to drive it back or they ship it back on a low boy. Again with heavy hitters like that, they don't need drivers like me getting into everything. Then again they don';t want to risk themselves driving something like that which is why they grab me to try and drive that thing back. Once I refused, and they shipped it back on lowboy. The other time she burned up. They tried to blame me for it. Never did get to understand the full investigation into that little fire. Consumed the whole rig in 30 minutes and called the boss. "Its burnt"

what do you mean burnt. Like I said, it's burnt, what part of it's burnt don;t you understand?

OMG...

The third time they asked can I go get a tractor back here for them.

OH NO... nope no no no. You get someone else. forget it you don't pay me enough not for a million etc etc etc. You can fire me or get billy, bob, jane or joe to do it. But I aint gonna. Nope.

That was the other part of it. The pay was never worth talking about for jobs like that. The burnt truck earned me 140 and the first rig 50 for what seems like a whole day of headache and dealing with big bosses who has a army of one barking orders to lapdog. me. Oh no. No more tractors for me. Find someone else to go get em. Its not worth the trouble.

Exceptions. HA...

Moral of the story if I have to teach anything about this...

ANY time in your employment you deal with Company Suits who are very interested in your time... Do whatever you can to be far away from them. Even to be home time off. Or go fishing or something where they cannot find you. Its time they learned to fend for themselves. God knows they have plenty of "People" to take care of the mess. I am not that "People" no thank you.

There is one thing I do miss about all this.

When you go get a tractor off a driver who got mad, then angry enough to quit and leave a tractor in a bad damaged state... they usually fill pages on qualcomm detailing their grievances to dispatcher. It usually starts off with this...

I did what you told me to do, this is BS then degenerates from there. Additional pages make a federal case of the whole thing as the driver worked himself into a rage.

Thats one thing dispatchers will never understand. They brush off Mr Mad Mad because they deemed him service failure and late somewhere and that little straw is what breaks the back of Mr Mad Mad who has been feeling pretty abused by that point in time. Weeks or months. It all comes out into the writing of pages against Dispatchers. Lots of reading material.

Sometimes those trucks need about 20,000 dollars in shop work to return to service making money, if they can fix it all. And I think they do go after those who quit and did the damage for recovery of damages and so forth in court.

There was one tractor that was pretty intact. But the ground under it was wet. The fuel lines were cut ahead of the valves which were closed at the tank ends.

When you pulled the caps off you quickly understand thats not diesel in the bottom of those tanks but gasoline now. Which creates more problems. That tractor is not going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Jacksonville is Florida's toilet and Florida is America's Wang sooo....lol.

 

My takeaway from that video is the guy being interviewed looks like he is about 10'7" lol

 

I dont no any more (and probably much less) than everyone else about this. However I have to reply to this comment. Yes it is true that shooting at the cops all but guarantees 5he shooter will be killed. But that should not be the case, anymore than shooting at a non law enforcement person. Cops are not anymore special than anyone else. The job they choose does not make them more important than anyone else. In fact it's only that they chooses to join the largest GANG, that makes the original statement true. Yes gang, that's why they always show up 4-5 deep. That's why, when alone thier nice, professional talking and acting, and not so tough, and want to talk. But once more gang members show up are now all big and bad. Between my uncles and cousins I have 8 cops in my family. Both city and state of, I notice alone they are nice guys. But once 2-3-4 of them are together. The whole world is cops are good everyone else is a maggot.

 

And waiting for Big Brother to come save him. And when the blues come in, someone else’s child, who was such a good kid full of life, gets killed in an altercation with the blues, then riots and they can burn down this gas station.

 

That's gotta be FUN phone call...

"Yeah, mr. driver manager, sir, some dingus fired several rifle rounds into the truck..."

 

Knight dispatcher: There was a gun involved? We don't allow guns at Knight. Pack your bags. You are fired.

Driver: I don't have a gun. I was shot at by someone else.
Knight dispatcher: I'm sorry, I can't talk to fired drivers.