were the megas always a poor place to work

its too bad they dont see the folly in their ways. experienced drivers are more efficient, have less accidents and tear up less equipment. i have been driving around a year, admittedly i still am not experienced.... maybe i should say this but i have never torn up equipment. it takes a long time to call yourself experienced.

before i leave i always say one thing....... i will bring the truck back in the same condition i found it, and i wont get a ticket. so far so good.

i dont know if i would be saying the same thing had a stayed with werner. it appeared to me from my short stay that their very methods are the cause of many accidents. expecting drivers to drive when tired, poor to non-existent training.

i passed everything, all the "training" and they were ready to assign me a truck. i felt i wasnt trained and was not ready to drive a truck across the country a thousand miles away from home.

i decided not to return and i went to local gig. i drove a cascadia day cab with a flatbed trailer. i started to get better at driving when i was by myself. it helped that i more or less knew the roads and where i was going (to some degree)

 

that one of the things i love about my current job. i have been there a few weeks and my boss doesn't bother me. if i have a question i get an answer, but there is no micromanaging.

my last job (boss was a jerk) he would call me up and ask me how im doing. i would be doing better if you didnt bother me. after a few times of him doing this, i realized its not because he genuinely cared, it was because he was trying to push me. he would say something like a i was behind the other two drivers on the same route...... that's only because they were speeding and i refused.

once he waited at the end of the road for me to go back. he called me on the CB and complained that i took a few seconds to buckle my seatbelt before i left the scale, and i made a quick look at the gate lock on my dump gate....... would would think those things should be applauded, but instead he was complaining at all of this took less then 15 seconds. micromanaging sucks.

i am a HUGE believer in CYA.

no one pushes me to go faster of do dumb things where i am now. it means allot. so far i cant say anything bad about it. adjusting to downtown driving is sometimes stressful, but i look at it as good practice.

after i quit that last job i heard that my former boss has 1 driver with 2 DWI's and another with 3 DWI's (spread out over many years). im glad i left.

 

my truck has recaps, the other day i noticed one of them was starting to go bad. i told the shop, they put a new recap on it before the next time i drove it. they take good care of their equipment.

 

people think Regan was some type of great president. truthfully he sucked the wages right out the middle class. trickle down might as well be crap running down hill or urine running down stream. trickle down economics, you got that right....... trick. the middle class got stuffed.