Swift Flatbed Division... ?!

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by RedRover, Oct 8, 2016.

  1. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    He said today, I should have been able to make the turn. It could have been made. I made it twice today and the road crew had put the barrels back on the road. I just anticipated I could be going either way and set up in the middle.
     
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  3. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    This IS the school, correct? There's no talk of sending you home, is there?
     
  4. Lepton1

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    Good thing you haven't read the right turn thread. Your common sense trumps by the book oopishness.
     
  5. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    Not yet, no. If all else fails, I will be on a sort of academic probation and have to stay another week with a different road instructor. Sucks because everyone else who started with me is coming back to the school laughing about small mistakes they made, or how they were laughing at each other for stupid things they had done. Must be nice. There is no pleasantry in our truck. 3 of 3 people in my truck are now about to fail a third road test. If it was just me, or just another person or maybe 2 of 3 people, we could shoulder the blame. But end of the day, I am scared ####less to grind a gear because this dude does crazy #### like pulling the brakes when I am in the middle of making a tight turn and it locks the ####ing wheels up, so I skid straight off the road.

    #### man, I've been driving on the road for 3 days. Why the #### would you pull my brakes period, let alone when I lack the experience to react to a jackknife or a skid, or any #### like that?

    It's bad enough being scared ####less that I could #### up and leave my children fatherless, my woman a single mother, and kill everyone in the truck, a carload of kids on the highway... Whatever... Then I have captain ptsd pulling the e brake, followed by screaming because the trailer is sitting in the middle of the road, tractor is almost in a ditch stalled and there's a line of cars behind me in a blind turn making illegal passes on the shoulder.

    He pulls my brakes again, I'm going to prison, not home.

    I told him straight up, when I'm behind that wheel, this is my truck and it is my responsibility to be in control of it. Don't touch my brakes.
     
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  6. snowman_w900

    snowman_w900 Road Train Member

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    What is it that hes trying to simulate by pulling the brakes on dry pavement???
     
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  7. johndeere4020

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    Sounds like an idiot move to me.
     
  8. snowman_w900

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    Kinda what im thinkin too.
     
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  9. johndeere4020

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    There's an old saying, those who can do those who can't teach. I would love to have a conversation with this instructor. I always thought of o became independently wealthy where I didn't need to drive for a living anymore I would give up my CDL then go to a couple of these driving schools, they must be a hoot.
     
  10. snowman_w900

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    Now THAT would be fun. @johndeere4020 , if you ever do this, let me know. Im going to the class as well.

    Im showing up with a hat with the little propeller on top, suspenders and thick ### pop bottle type glasses. When the instructor asks me questions about the truck, im going to refer to it as "the 18 wheeler" instead of semi truck.

    Only thing is though, i dont know if it would be more fun to get to tear the hell out of the equipment and treat it like im in the demo derby with out getting in trouble or watch the look on the teachers face when i school him on how to REALLY drive a truck. Bahahahaha. Prolly get the law called on us JD!!!
     
  11. TripleSix

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    I imagine the people teaching at the schools to be the ones who couldn't cut it being a trainer at a mega carrier. Some of these guys get this 'messiah' thing in their minds. These are the ones that teach bad habits...like slowing down to 15 mph when the sign at the weigh station says MAINTAIN 40MPH. They park on the fuel island. They throw garbage out into the parking lots.

    "How do you know, Six?"

    Because it only happens in areas where the megas congregate. A few years back, I was running lots of loads across Kansas and Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Cattle haulers everywhere. Yes, the parkinglot smelled like arse at night, but would you believe that there was no trash on the ground the next morning?
     
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