Should I lie about an injury?

It will really show when you are in Alpo of Allentown PA making 48 pallets into 90 by number of large bags into custom layer counts for each one of the 90 you will be building by hand there.

If a company says your back is no good to them, it is more to protect you and what future you have left in that back. I understand you left one trade and take up another. But you need to be very careful what you haul and from whom. For us it's McKesson, they unload, reload with cardboard going right back to memphis. We don't do a #### thing but rest up in the cab until they bring out the signed bills and unhook us.

If I was to try and do some of the 150 pound boxes or worse a few hundred pound barrel that spine will snap and that will be that. No one wants the liability of such a injury I would present a risk of that. Workmans comp plus insurance that decide what medicines you can or cannot use in a IV and kick you out of the hospital soonest.

Good luck. But be prepared for a few rejections if you speak up about that back. Not only that but really talk about how you managed to rehabilitate yourself to go to work again rather than sit home doing nothing.

 

I broke my back and shattered both ankles. I have a torn ACL & rotator cuff.
I list nothing, and can pass the most demanding PT tests.
I went to one place that even required XRAYS of your spine, and passed.

In the world of trucking it's kind of like being in an interrogation room, you never volunteer anything.
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You're getting older every day so why risk more damage to the body. Every time you lift a tarp, throw a chain, throw a strap, you're causing more damage to the body little at a time. You'll probably spend your old age sitting in a wheelchair.
You can stay in shape on your own terms, not forced due to the type of work.

 

Where is it written you can't stay in shape pulling van?There's walking,bring weights with you.At least if your injuries start to hurt you can stop exercising.With flatbed you can't do that.

 

Dilemna

 

That's why God created Tylenol.

 

True but you can become imune to it.

 

And Betel Nut.