The Quickest You Ever Quit An Trucking Job...

first day of orientation.... CRST & MS carrier. i dont tolerate people who lie knowing that i will find out almost immediatly

 

I've had three instances where I'd turned down a job offer before ever going to work for them. I turned down Stevens Transport when a small fleet owner (the one who was leased to CRST Malone) called me and asked if I was still interested in running flats, steps, and manual detach RGNs for him. I just called Stevens and said I wouldn't be attending their orientation, and had found a job which suited me better.
Another was for a container hauler. His truck was an old Swift FLD, very visibly worse for wear. What defects there were, I don't know, and never will - it reeked of piss the moment I opened the door.
The third was for an Oriental food delivery service here in Colorado Springs. I took the road test both in a straight truck and tractor-trailer. Then they dropped the bomb on me - $10/hr. for the straight truck, $12/hr. for the tractor-trailer, I had no say in how those vehicles were loaded, but would be held liable for any product damage as a result of halfassed loading of the commodity. Yeah, if I'm not loading it myself, I'm not taking the hit for a forklift operator.
As for jobs I actually worked, I posted about this in the "Report a BAD Trucking Company" section of the forum... it was for a sod farm in Pueblo called Southwest Farms. The job itself, I actually liked.. it was dynamic, the majority of it was actually labor and equipment operation, rather than driving, and the guy who ran the place... as jacked up as working for him was, I actually did like the guy.
But micromanagement, too many chiefs and not enough Indians, the low pay and long commute, the disorganization of the work environment and 'command structure', and his own tendency to blow his top over problems he created himself led me to conclude that there was no way we were going to be able to work together. I quit after one week.

 

i understand, good that its only that particular job!

(got caught on the phone in between editing my post lol)

 

I went to western express for my "First" job, I was there 4 days for orientation, got my truck and left 25miles down the road it broke down and they said it was driver error and they were gona charge my 500 dollars so I told them to keep there truck and hopped a bus to Marshfield, and started with Roehl where they actually train there drivers.

 

Bought 3 hours. Hauling hoppers (commercial grain, on farm plates-illegal as ####!!) driving a FLD when they first came out 2-3 year old one, the bumper was held on with bailing wire on the riders side, hood had nothing bolts in the bottom it stopped when it hit the ground, broken bug catcher, when I shut the door(not hard just shut) the spot mirror was knocked loose and just swayed around, and the tanks were dented. I made one trip pulled in(which by the while going down the road the cb fell out and ripped the cord and slammed into the floor and went to 1,000 pieces) and I told him "Sorry, but I'm not driving that equipment" he said "well okay, good luck on anywhere else you go". I'm still friends with that guy a week later he called me and I made a list out for him of everything that needed fixed, now that truck looks like it's brand new

 

I took a job with some firm in Chicago, over the phone they hired me and flew me to Chicago to get started, the secretary sent me the wrong address for the terminal (it was the old location) i walked in to the place and said i was here to start today I did some paperwork and ran to a physical and was in the truck by 10:00pm that night the next day i got a call from the trucking firm that hired me turns out i was working for a different firm but it was like this, S&T trucking was where i was going to but they sent me to a firm called Simpson & Terry trucking who at the time had leased the old terminal of S&T Trucking, honest mistake I stayed with them for 17 years...

 

One week with a reefer outfit out of Van Nuys in '08.
A complete, sleazebag outfit with some rather irritable owners.

 

About a week with Conway back in 06. Spent 3 days watching anti-union vids, 1 day with a p&ddriver,one Night with a line-haul driver and 1 Night on the docks. By far the worst Run barn I had ever experienced. 15 guys quit in that time.
There were guys that hadn't driven in over 6 months and hardly anybody was getting over 30 hours a week
I went back to knight lol