What should I do about being tailgated

they have played enough games with me. i dont play games. i am a professional driver, and if the drivers with this company want to toy with me, im not available to play. if the boss wished me to take more risks he can forget it. if the boss swears at me, i ignore him. i have discovered that he talks to drivers like that on an almost regular basis, using the dumb mother-fill-it-in, nobody speaks to me like that. not my wife, sister, mother, stepfather, friends, and certainly not my dumb, ignorant boss. he seems to forget drivers make him $$$. no, i am not perfect.

all of this stuff has happened, including the boss putting me with a so called "trainer" for a couple of days. yeah right, more like someone put in the truck to try to encourage me to do stupid things. more like an attempt to set me up for tickets or accidents. this gentlemen told me that i only needed 3 seconds of following distance, and i should run "pink" lights, that cops are more lenient with drivers in CMV's, and that i can get away with speeding. he even told me that empty, my truck will handle just like my 96 camaro Z28 and i did not have to slow down for corners. NO WAY. i have ignored all of this so called advice. friday that same guy was supposed to take me over to the plant to load blacktop. he drove well above the speed-limit, i knew where the plant was anyways. he called me the radio and told me if i didnt know where the plant was that i needed to "keep up". my reply, i have no desire to speed i know where i am going. i got to the plant without a problem. we waited 40 minutes to load. WHAT did he gain? they weren't ready to load anyways.

i have figured out the game they were trying to play. get me to have a fender bender or get a ticket, in which case i become a prisoner of my boss and his company. sorry to say it has failed. my record is just as clean as the day i started there.

i will be calling serafini monday morning. i have an appointment i had to make for monday i will have time in the afternoon. they told me to call them as soon as i had a chance to make an interview. i bought new clothes for an interview and hope to make a good impression. i will ask them all of the important stuff about safety. i have heard good things from their drivers. if they hire me i will likely take the job and stay there as long term. i am well aware that i need to have a long term job on my employment record. i get that point. my point is i am not going to continue with someone who expects reckless behavior i am unwilling to deliver on?

i dont play games with a 70,000 lb truck. sorry, i have no intention of being the next trucker in the newspaper

 

i dont know how these drivers would respond to me slowing down, they have an aggressive reputation. the only thing i would worry about when i leave is having them continue to do something stupid in my presence on the road. if i leave, im not telling my boss where i am going, maybe i will even tell him a fish story that im leaving the industry (a completely false statement). however its a fairly close nit industry and he or one of the other drivers would see me in a truck soon enough.

while im still working there im not goimg to react to their tailgating in any way. if they hit me i will laugh because now these jerks would down 1 maybe 2 trucks. besides how woukd he explain to the ins company that two of his truck hit each other because the guy behind me was dumb enough to ride my bumper

 

That's really absurd. What ever happened to privacy. Hopefully they don't send that unless I have a job there. I could see him being a jerk about it. Doesn't the dmv record tell them everything they need to know. Historically has it always been this way? No other industry does that. My last manufacturing job has no idea I'm in the trucking industry. So even Werner is able to track any moves I make?

 

I guess I didn't think about it that way, but for them to automatically track my movements for a decade. I believe an employer would check the last job or two, but are they going to go back a decade I doubt it