Who's The Worst Of Them ALL to work for?

Hey Tex,

I'm not trying to be judgmental, so please don't take this the wrong way. If you're 35 years old, a father of 5, have been driving a truck for 7 years, and you need a job bad with CR England being the only company to respond to your request for employment, why are you wasting your time fishing for unreliable, and sometimes stupid advice from drivers on this site. It CRE is your only option right now, I think that your best move right now is to go to England and do all that you can to make the very best of it, regardless of what kind of a company they are. That's just my opinion. Because your success at CRE at this time will be measured ONLY by your attitude and work ethic, nothing else. Judging from my observations from the posts from the drivers on this thread, you're certainly not going to be able to prepare yourself for an opportunity at CRE by reading this stuff. Go to CRE like you intend to stay there awhile and do all that you can to make the best of it. If it requires that you have to put up with some BS every now and then, then just remember that you are working in the trucking industry. Best of luck! Be safe.

 

i have already told them that i want the job but thank you for your reply

 

Zedanny, It appears that there are many who are in denial of the idea that they might become an accidental criminal as a truck driver, so here's some more shake up. Click the links below to read about 8 drivers charged with felonies over log book violations in Pennsylvania. Another link I provide below is a report from todaystrucking.com about 5 drivers getting jail time in California over log books; the article mentions that the FMSCA called in the DOT, which in turn can called in the local federal prosecutor. And I provide a link below where you can read of and know of a driver in Missouri that got "one misdemeanor count of failure to keep a proper motor carrier driver's record". Here is a quote from Landline magazine, "Illinois classifies logbook and hours-of-service violations as Class 4 felonies with a possible sentence of one to three years in prison for each count."; I provide the link below.

One company I drove for almost 9 years had a DOT audit in the office. About 9 of the drivers audited had log book violations. I don't know what punishment the drivers got, but it was mentioned at the next safety meeting that the company was fined $60,000 over those 9 drivers. It was later mentioned by the safety director that the company brought a lawsuit against the drivers to recover the $60,000 fine. I am lucky that I didn't get an audit, because I use a computer program to keep my logs, and I just got an update from the software developer that I had to get the critical update to correct for a misinterpretation of a split break provision; in other words, I would have had some hours violations even though I thought I was safe using one of the most widely used computer log book softwares. Close call.

Anybody that can peel a banana can easily Google up misdemeanors and felonies against truckers in many states, I just did and posted some below. I stumbled on to a lawyer's site that says 15mph over the speed limit is a misdemeanor in California, so watch those school zones, especially the ones that only apply if children are present, because children can suddenly appear from anywhere and put a driver in violation.

I try to drive carefully; I managed to go 26 years without a moving violation, then Ohio got me for speeding over the 55mph limit on their interstate. Since then, I now have 9 years without a moving violation. Yet I am not comfortable knowing how easily it is to become an accidental criminal driving a truck. It happened to me, so I am a believer. Anybody who is not a believer can either use the links below, or Google lots of hits on their own, or just stay in denial. Denial is the easy way out, no doubt. We can just say, "It won't happen to me" and keep on driving.



http://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?

id=1657 http://www.todaystrucking.com/newsc...CenterID=5&intDocID=20287&CFID=934&CFTOKEN=67

http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2001/Nov01/111201/111301-01.html

 

I've just read the article about the 5 drivers in California. With just the brief info in the news article, it looks more like a case of intentional and habitual behavior rather than "accidental criminal." The fact that was reported about one of the 5 having driven for 19 hours and having killed a man and his teenaged son is supportive of the habitual criminal behavior idea.

 

You can take the top 5-10 companies and put their names in a hat,shak'em and draw one.

The one you draw will pan out with-in 5% of any of the others. "THAT TYPE" of Company is neither good nor bad to any extreme.They are all successful due to cheap labor moving many tons of freight at cheap rates.

They have adapted to deregulation and have it working in their favor.You hands out there with less then 3 years under your belt,regretfully have few options when seeking a career with a single Carrier.

 

Nijjar Brothers are one of those "Put three guys in a truck sorta company" Never seen one that wasnt tired, didnt stink, or wasnt in a hurry.

 

Arrow i know is up there close to swift they just wer'nt listed

I need a job but have a felony hunting charge from 2001 does anyone have any companies in mind around the panhandle of florida

HELP

 

I dont guess there is any company that will make everyone happy.

 

This can happen in your car .Just piss the wrong cop off and see what happens. Danny

 

Thanks for the laugh. Thought I had heard all the swift jokes till I read this.