the one problem with my new job

They drive that way because their is,a line on each end. They don't have sense enough to realize as long as I keep the door closed and not stop at a store then the guy behind me won't pass me. Thus knocking them back a few minutes. On the same hand they can't catch the guy in front either unless he stops. That behavior is no ones fault but the dumb ### driver doing it.

 

i dunno what the deal is with gravel haulers but paid by the ton or paid by the hour there always trying to get one more load for the day than the next guy, without thinking of the fact that there beating the hell out of there trucks and not gaining anything by it. iv been hauling gravel on hourly jobs and had other trucks working on the same job meet me on a gravel road doing 70+. i run the same paid hourly or paid per ton, if the rate isn't right driving faster sure isn't helping anything, if a per ton rate isn't right ill go haul somewhere else simple as that.

 

i always kinda get a little bit of a laugh out of the guy that is riding your ### on each end so you pull off to the side and let them go around next trip you pass by them stopped at the truck stop getting a refill on junk food or on the side or the road with there hood up. although slightly annoying when there at the truck stop because that means there probably be riding your ### again in an hour or too and then your gonna give up some time to let them around you again, so that there not on your bumper

 

During training I had a trainer tell me not to pay any attention to the 55mph truck speed in Knoxville. Everybody runs 62-65 is what he told me. I said ok, and kept the truck at 55mph.

Don't argue with the trainer, don't complain to the boss, just drive the truck the way you see fit and if they don't like it they will either accept it or let you go. Either outcome is better than tickets or an accident.

 

So the truck is legal and you drive it legally. No problem!!. I mean, they might have a problem with the way you drive, but don't make their problem your problem.


Man, that's the most I have ever written the word "problem ".

 

Actually it's a per load money. I ran bulk cement and 6 of us would be at 100 plus crossing the American Legion at the Md/VA line racing for the 5 silos at the Pentagon Arlington. These are in R model Macks with engines turned over and pegged.

The 6th man has to wait almost two hours and stands to lose between 76 dollars to 152 or so gross pay because he will not be able to deliver more than 4 loads that day. if he was one of the 5 in first, then his day's pay will be between 5 to 6 loads worth. that's about 380 to 450 or so gross for the day. Speeding tickets for 55 to 80 was 45 dollars each and a point in those days, you could run 7 points per year before being threatened with suspension.

Oh yea alot of money depended on that. If you considered Cement at 4 dollars a certain amount and they delivered I think about a payroll for 50 bulk tankers running close to 5 million to 7 million per year on 3 to 5 loads delivered. We still had 200 more trucks, half in gasoline and rest where needed.

So for a company like that, you can imagine the flow of money. More loads more money. They finally cracked down. But it did not really matter.

 

That type of driving is normal with dump truck operations. Those drivers feel above the law. They feel so macho with that huge dump truck and loud air horn.
Where I lived in Tennessee one of those tough guys rolled the truck at an intersection and filled a car with hot asphalt; the mother and baby slowly baked to death right there at the traffic light.
They love to run 80 mph with an uncovered load, slinging rocks everywhere.
It's your call, but eventually you will pay a heavy price losing your cdl or being involved in a fatality.
You have a family to take care of; why do you choose those fly-by-night outfits to work for?