Your worst codriver

Discussion in 'CRST' started by rockstar_nj, Jul 11, 2014.

  1. rockstar_nj

    rockstar_nj Medium Load Member

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    There's no shortage of complaints about CRST, thank god I'm done, but there's one that's missing... Exactly what goes on in that truck. It's just spread around random posts. So let's talk about our worst / dumbest codrivers.

    Mine was my first codriver when I got done training. He told me he was stranded in Florida, his codriver was an o/o that just left him at a truck stop. Ofc, I didn't take the hint and agreed to drive with him. His fun all started on that first load. I finished driving at about 2am, after 3 hours of him looking at the ENTIRE route on google map street view, he finally leaves at about 5. This happened every single day. He didn't want to drive at night (not the only codriver like that, the other one was just as bad, but this guy was dumber), and found a way to avoid it, but always left himself with having to sit until the sun starts coming out.

    I fixed that, I stretched a day out and just started driving through the overnight so princess can only drive when the sun is out, the sun that I barely got to see.

    Not just that, but I kept the truck immaculate. He spilled peanuts and coffee all over the place and then would just go in back to bed, leaving me to spend my 30 cleaning his mess that he would never touch.

    And then one of our loads changed. Instead of going from CA to Iowa, we were dropping the trailer off, and going from CA to KY, more miles. He told me not to accept the load. After saying we have to, he corrected me by saying that no we don't. We're semi-contractors. Our CDL is a contract between us and the company. We don't work for them, we're independent. I took the load. So that night we stopped because I ran out of hours babysitting and doing all the driving of the truck, clearly that means he has to stop and take days off too, still on this load. I went into the store and came back out with a Nesquik, which prompted the stupidest thing I have ever heard another person say, dumb enough for me to remember it months later, word for word:

    After picking up the one that was going to be relayed to another truck, he refused to drive, and insisted that we're going to Iowa. After getting our dispatcher to explain everything to him, he refused to drive, sticking me with a toll I had no money for.

    The next day, going through Nevada, our engine light comes on, and the red engine light comes on, the one that means get the ####### truck fixed. I sent a message to maintenance, and that got him pissed. He flipped out about how when he's driving it's his truck, if I want to talk to maintenance do it on my shift. Then he sends a message to maintenance telling them that he was wrong, the lights weren't on. Ofc we broke down.

    We're back on the road, now on a new load to PA, and we're on our 3rd load, none turned in, but 1 relayed. Since I had the same FM from when I was training and he knew how I drove, we were clear to use tolls. I left toll money in front of the truck in case he was the one driving through it. I woke up in Fort Wayne, Indiana... Nice and off course from I80. He's on his 30 (aka 2 hour). I wanted to get something to eat, after his lecture about how the 10 hours of sleeper/off means UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP (it doesn't), I asked him to hand me my change cup that was in front of him so I can go inside. The ####### said no, wait until I'm done eating. So I just reached over and grabbed the cup, and took a fist to the gut. We've had enough shouting matches, I wasn't going to be the one fired for fighting, so I just got out of the truck and went inside. When I came back out, he was nowhere to be found. The sleeper was an oven. That truck hadn't run for about 2 hours and was sitting in the sun baking. So I started the truck to turn the AC on in back, and guess who shows up, flipping out on me for starting the truck on his shift. After yelling back and questioning why I'm not allowed to use the AC, he said he knows what I'm trying to do and called our FM and said I was making threats. I made a call in, gave my side of the story, and was taken off the truck and took a week long vacation in Fort Wayne. Where the only beer in walking distance was the strip clubs, who charge $15 for a 6 pack of bud, so couldn't even drink because I'm not paying that much for beer.

    The next guy was a lot better. We got along great, he was dangerous, that's why I eventually left his truck, but his only problem was that he "made wrong turns"... ALL THE TIME. Following one interstate. All he had to do was not get off, and he got it wrong.
     
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  3. A Bug

    A Bug Heavy Load Member

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    Wow after hearing your story I now miss my old co driver. I used to get irritated because he would tell me to slow down now and then. my worst experience was my first trainer. He would start freaking out when is started moving after the light turned green because he wasn't watching and was thinking it was still red.
     
  4. Transit_lifer

    Transit_lifer Light Load Member

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    Sounds like an absolute nightmare....and I thought MY experiences with 4 trainers was bad......
     
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