The New FFE Driver Academey

WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!

BMI? Not this discriminatory bullpoop again! I am 5'9" and weigh 345, yet I have NO medical problems at all. NONE, other than obesity. If CSA 2010 is going to boot me out of the truck, I WILL SUE the USDOT for discriminating against large cars like myself.

More frackking political Obamalovingliberalsucking horsepucky!

 

Oh, stop blaming everything on Big Bad Obama Liberal Sucking Government. The DOT isn't going to boot you out of the truck...your employer's insurance company will do it. Sue anybody you want. Lawyers love clients like you, though you won't put your money where your mouth is and try to find one who will take your case.

Take responsibility for your own condition, man. Government didn't make you fat. You did. You and your lousy diet with maybe some genetic help. Just like me. If a company won't take you because they don't want to raise their own insurance rates by hiring a high risk driver, well, deal with it. They pretty much get to do what they want.

Want to stay morbidly obese? It's up to you. Go play pro football. Become a Sumo wrestler. Buy a truck of your own and pay your own insurance rates. Then complain about the big, bad Obama DOT kicking you out of the truck.

Grow up. Stop blaming everyone else for your own choices.

There. <Stepping off soapbox.>

 

Dude that was all tongue in cheek...


Right on the DOTs CSA website it says so.

Sheeze some of you have really hurt butts anytime Obama is mentioned...

 

I'm sorry, but any company that pays 32 cpm household mover's guide for my experience (roehl paying 40 practical) to pull a reefer, won't put an APU on the truck but WILL threaten my employment for idling it is a bottom feeder. FFE is a bottom feeder, period. Right along with Werner, Swift, JB Hunt, and de Boer. Marten is just above bottom feeder status because they're paying alittle better per mile and puts APUs on their trucks.

 

BJ, let me apologize for my outburst on the soapbox. It's got nothing to do with our president or government or my current (though not for much longer!) employer, the DOT. I just had some, um, "bad" news and at the moment, what you wrote sounded a whole lot like other whiney, snively posts I've read:

"It's not my fault! It's <insert anyone but me here> fault! Really. I'm a swell guy with a work ethic beyone reproach. If anyone finds anything wrong, it's you, not me!"

I missed seeing your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. Please accept my apologies, readers. It's not my fault, though. It was the bad news! Really. I'm normally a well-balanced guy.

Oh, wait. There I go, whining and sniveling! Sheeeesh.....

 

I know it's probably been answered elsewhere, but I'm a wee bit lazy to look for it just now, so would someone explain the difference between "practical miles" and "hhg miles" to me? I know that neither of them are actual miles driven, but is there really a difference? What is it? And if a driver follows a recommended "shortest distance between two points," wouldn't that be either practical or hhg? Surely a company won't compute mileage using roads that a truck cannot drive, right?

 

practical miles gives you a closer estimation from mailing address to address. HHG is zipcode -zipcode is my understanding. If it's a delivery from 1 small town to another that's fine. On the other hand if you pickup in downtown Chicago, and deliver another city downtown, you can get ripped for upwards of 100 miles.

 

ffe cheats you out of an avg of at least 12percent of miles per trip so if they are paying 100 miles 4 a trip it is act 112 thats on a low estimate most of the time it is more

 

Wise words indeed. My old flight instructor told me that any landing I walked away from was a good one.

 

Well so far I've been paired up with an awsome trainer and have been layin down some major miles...first load...Light.....15,000 lb LTL load from Langcaster TX to Burlington NJ,drop n' hook,second load 28,000 lb LTL load from Burlington NJ to Ontario California....also drop and hook,picked up a hefty 38,000 lb load from the drop yard in Ontario California to Lithonia GA.Dropped that trailer and now Here I sit with my trainer waiting in a Pilot truckstop till tomarrow for our load at Conway truckload terminal to be ready to ship back to Langcaster TX....all in all good experience....I've found my comfort level behind the wheel in the chaotic enviroment navigating a 75 ft x 13'6 x 8'5 vehicle around and with the idiots in there 4 wheelers....hard to believe I used to be one of those....LOL!!!!!!