What am I responsible for?

I understand lol
I have been there more than once, in more than one field.
It is easy to just go along with the flow, even if you know that things aren't safe or proper, but it is "the way things are done", and then something happens, or you realize what could happen, and then you start thinking differently. (And this is why I get loquacious about it! Lol)

And with a cdl, unlike most other jobs, whatever happens Always follows you, and good or bad, it directly affects your value, and your earning potential.

 

A bit of sage advice, even with what KE6GFW said, that company doesn't give a crap what the problems are and what they will need to fix ... just find another job. It will be a waste of time to even try.

 

Bad people are bad. There are lots of people in this business who live at the outer edge of their means fully planning to blow it all up and start over if anything goes wrong. You can tell who they are because they drive cars that are waaaay too nice for a guy who owns a small business. You do not want to be anywhere near them.

EDIT: These guys always ALWAYS think they are some kind of genius who has figured out the secret to being massively successful. In reality all they're doing is justifying eating the seed corn and acting like a selfish ###. It works until it doesn't and then they have all sorts of excuses for why it didn't work out and they lost some older family members life savings. (they always have a family member for a major investor too for some reason)

 

Had to look that up...

 

That reminds me of someone I know. He borrowed the money to start a trucking company from his best friends father. His best friend was a guy that went to college with him. They had a contract for the borrowed money which was a legal contract. After a few short years the company started doing well, except on paper,so he filed for bankruptsy and cleared the debt. Not long afterward he opened another company in another town under a different name' same trucks and same employees. This time he's debt free. Yes he is successful, but on the back of someone else.

 

The many joys of driving for a construction company.You better do a thorough pretrip,there's probably many other things wrong with that trk.Open the hood and make sure no leaks on the motor and ground.If it drives and sound real rough tell your boss to stick the pos up his ### and find another job.

 

Yeah these people are an incredibly common variety of unsuccessful small business people. Building your own business is hard work, and for it to be successful long term it has to be generating value for its customers and employees not just the owner. These people don't see why that has to be the case, and all they do is leech off of the rest of us.

Not everyone who has a 'small business is hard' sob story deserves your sympathy. A lot of them went out of business because that's precisely what they deserved.

EDIT: Furthermore you have people like this to thank for all of those government regulations that make our lives so wonderful. Remember that the warning labels on products exist because some moron actually did that. Also remember that the government had to step in to stop 'train coupler' from being a job. Back at the turn of the century it was an actual job to drop a steel pin into the links of trains to couple them as they came together. You could tell how long those guys had been on the job by how many fingers they had left. It paid well, but they didn't have workmans comp or life insurance back then... And these people got killed on the job at a rate several hundred times higher than modern day truckers (smashed between the two train cars as they came together if the coupler dropped the pin wrong. The government was able to solve the problem by mandating that the railroads use automatic couplers, because the automatic couplers had already been around for years and years but the rail lines didn't want to spend the money. These people are why we can't have nice things. Remember that when they are trying to get you to pity them. Every single inconvenience you go through to prove you aren't a scumbag is because these people are out there ruining it for the rest of us.

 

One of the? Shoot he is THE leading employment councillor

 

In trucking I crosses paths with lots of crooked people. One guy where I used to deliver, was skimming lots of cash off his business and hiding it in a floor safe at his house. Some real hot looking woman that worked for him figured out what he was doing. While his wife was out of town, she flirted with the guy and went home with him and swooned him into showing her all that cash. She watched him open the safe and memorized the combination. A few weeks later, he was in the hospital and his wife was visiting him. The cash from the safe disappeared. When he returned home from the hospital and saw all that cash gone, he had a heart attack and died. The woman that took the cash and her husband built a nice home and had nice vacations after that. His buddies in the same business did the same as to skimming cash, but this guy liked to run his mouth and brag about it because he thought he was smarter than everyone else.

 

That truck should have never moved. Are you even sure he has insurance? Trust me, you don't want to find out after an incident that he doesn't.