Werner rejected me, lol

Read the second sentence of your original thread-starting post, where you apparently listed your take on the "not so savory" aspects of Werner.... Go ahead, read it. i did. Although you did not say "ppl shouldn't be given jobs right out of shool" you insinuated that Werner has low standards as evidenced by your listing some less than wonderful aspects of Werner using words like "bottom feeder". THEN you stated, to add to it, "hiring ppl from schools" in the very same sentence seemingly to add another aspect of Werners "lowness", to continue the thought in the sentence. By putting it in the same sentence using it as an example of the apparent bottom feeder thought, yes, it would seem that you equate those hiring ppl right out of school to bottom feeders. Same sentence. Since a sentence is used to convey an idea, well, you do the math, er, English. That's all.

I understand now, that you did not intend to place CDL graduates as being equated to hired by bottom feeders. I apologize for reading your sentence as written, and commenting on it, rather than deciphering what you may have been thinking instead. My bad, they did not teach us mind reading in CDL school.

So, relax and enjoy your day!

 

Actually a company hiring mostly new drivers kind of points to them being a bottom feeding company.
I do not know of any that will pay a decent wage for a starting driver. They pay the same mileage rates that the company's were paying 15 years ago.
I know that new drivers need to start somewhere. Heck I had the same issue when I started.
I was 21 and at the time nobody hired anyone under 25. So at least that has changed.
I had to team with my Cousin in a family company to get some road experience when I started, then went local.
Finally went OTR again several years back, and had to go to a bottom feeder company for a refresher.
The school barely taught them how to make it around the block. The trainers were more interested in the extra miles than training.
This did not bother me, since the only thing I needed to learn was how to use the qualcom and how they wanted paperwork.
But for a new driver fresh off a trainers truck it was hard on most. And this added to many of them not staying on for long.
Which is not fair to the new driver.

 

15 over is the same as reckless driving ... and you are surprised?

 

Rhol (Sp?) and a few others rejected me for my 2 that are under 10 MPH speeding in 3 years. Swift gave me a chance.

 

Good. Swift is a better company then Werner.

Lots of people are getting speeding tickets for 5 mph over right now, cause the cops have to justify their jobs and make money now that the economy is shot to hell and their jobs and wages are on the line.

Best to get a radar detector, or better, a GPS unit that warns you when you go over the speed limit.

Those are legal to use in a Class 8 commercial rig, but Radar/Laser detectors are not. If you are short on money you can find some real nice used GPS units on eBay for cheap.

Look at it this way: Its cheaper then a 200 or 300 dollar speeding ticket.

I run a TomTom 740 GPS and it works great cuase I got a fast car with no cruise control. Don't take much for it to pass 5 mph over and not know it.

 

I agree.

15 over the limit and one is passing most other vehicles, so the I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING THAT FAST, baloney isn't going to hold water in court.

 

Large companies prefer recruits over experienced drivers. Pay, insurance, and less hassle overall. I asked a local recruiter for a 400 truck company why they hired recruits over experience and he was pretty frank about it. He says if you hire a recruit that lost their job and went to truck school, there is a pretty large tax break in it for the company. That applies to other fields as well, not just trucking. He mentioned the name of the act that was passed but I can't recall it. He also said it was a whole lot easier to hire drivers who didn't have any "bad habits" to break. He claimed insurance companies love seeing a driver that has had certified formal training over one that has not, comes out much better in court in the case of accidents and lawsuits. And of course the pay rate is much lower because of lack of experience. I've personally seen trainers with recruits and freshly trained solo drivers get miles out the ying yang while top pay guys were getting 1500-1800 mile weeks. After a driver has a few years under their belt they know when they're getting screwed over..it takes recruits awhile to learn this..not a bad thing, I'm just saying it translates into less hassle for dispatchers. Out with the old and in with the new, it's here and it's NOW.

 

Im going to be getting the Trucker Garmin ^.^
I hear its real nice from a trucker that came in to the school, she graduated from there and said its always been spot on for her, hopefully my trainer will run me through some advanced trip planning as well GPS is a good backup not a primary.

Just waiting to hear back from the recruiter.

 

I got the 465T Garmin and the only thing I really don't like about it is it does not (or I haven't figured out how to) show the route (end to end for review).

And it does squawk excessively about some roads that are not truck routes that are heavily used (eg. 99 west) and not posted. Also some of the scale locations are wrong (maybe old locations that have been replaced).

It has led me on some circuitous routes but has never screwed me, although one time in town it had me make a right turn at one of those non-truck friendly corners with the right angle curb and a pole on the corner (with a programmed double trailer 100' overall length).