Yep, a bobtail u-turn and safety is all over me about it.

Cat sdp · Oct 10, 2023

Any update?

Jmanchester91 · Oct 10, 2023

mustang190 said: ↑

How did they know you did a u turn? Somebody report you?
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There is video of it from the giant road facing cameras on our trucks.
They’re kind of a common thing among mega’s.

Arctic_fox · Oct 10, 2023

mustang190 said: ↑

How did they know you did a u turn? Somebody report you?
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Yea the truck did. He did a U-Turn and the software in the truck flagged it and recorded a video then sent an alert to whoever. That person then sent it to someone and now the OP is in hot water over stupid.

tarmadilo · Oct 10, 2023

FWIW, I drive for J Rayl out of the Sunnyvale, Texas terminal (just east of Dallas), and they’re pretty good about just letting me drive. We have a safety department, but they keep us on a pretty long leash. I’m coming up on five years with them.

Magoo1968 · Oct 10, 2023

Motives outward camera sucks .. two weeks ago a huge bull moose popped out of the bush at a full gallop I had to stand on the brakes to miss it . The silly thing gave me a hard brake but no footage of why . Boss only had it for the insurance discount. He has never questioned any violations it’s shown .

201773 · Oct 11, 2023

Wonder what they would say about this? Near Forest City, NC.

shatteredsquare · Oct 13, 2023

turnabout in Detroit

u turn = bad

looks like a turnabout to me, dedicated lane and purpose built extra truck swing room

MACK E-6 · Oct 13, 2023

shatteredsquare said: ↑

turnabout in Detroit

u turn = bad

looks like a turnabout to me, dedicated lane and purpose built extra truck swing room

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I’d like to think any driver with more than 12 minutes worth of experience would know better than to attempt that particular u-turn, but sometimes I wonder.

Magoo1968 · Oct 15, 2023

New intersection near Saskatoon they force you to do u turns to reduce cross traffic..

kylefitzy · Oct 29, 2023

Jmanchester91 said: ↑

Hey y’all. Been trucking 4+ years.
I just got out of a mandatory safety talk here at Stevens transport. I’ve got an equal amount of good and bad things to say about the company.
In any case, I was on us75 north of Tulsa about a month or so ago. I was delivering to wal mart the previous night with a drop and hook. No empty trailers to take with me and less than 30 minutes on my clock. Went 3 miles up to the mom and pop stop bobtailing to rest up for the night.
I got up to go check for an empty, and well, there was a lane marked specifically for u turns on that fairly desolate stretch of highway. Factoring in that I was bobtailing, I took the uturn and didn’t think much about it till about an hour ago.
Now they’re making me jump through a bunch of hoops which is totally fine. What’s got me posting here is I have to jump through these hoops only to then go talk to big safety man about whether they’re going to fire me or not.
I want to stay positive but I’m sure you all know how it is. I’ve got bills to pay. I really don’t want to take any chances, doing all of this work to show up in another four days to be told I’m fired.
I’m based out of Dallas Texas but I’ll literally go anywhere to not be treated like this. My mvr is clean and my dac has a couple minor “accidents” not involving another driver or requiring a tow from years ago.
What I’m mostly concerned about is what they call the “Xpress report”, tenstreet provides this service and it has, again, about 5 minor accidents I had while I was doing yard jockey work a couple years ago. Stuff like clipping off a hood mirror. These reports don’t provide for much nuance or explanation but simply put, the yard jockey job was at a poorly run paper plant that lacked space for all of the product they were pumping out.
Is there any chance for me in this industry still? Last time I was hunting for a job I made the mistake of using “intelliapp” for ease of use which is a tenstreet service so of course any company that utilizes intelliapp is gonna pull up that report. I remember getting calls left and right, going into like…3 or 4 UA’s a day, scheduling orientation and then when that report is pulled, being turned away.

I am trying my best to be open minded about the fact that maybe I am a bad truck driver, but….no. I see the state of skills and safety from the “office” everyday. I think I’m fairly good at what I do. I figure I’d ask here about any leads about companies that are, for lack of a better phrase, a little more down to earth than these mega carriers. I also don’t want to lowball myself either, I know I am a valuable employee who has just had bad luck with employers in my career.

many leads are appreciated and thank you for your time.

**edit: should go without saying that I haven’t failed a drug test or anything either. I do have a misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge from 13 years ago that I should mention for posterity but I kind of assume that shouldn’t be much of an issue.
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They must have fired him and took away his internet privileges.

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