Profile For Christopher M. M.

Well, someone has obviously not made any mistakes before. Of course I was careless, but I was asked for the contributing factors, so I laid some out. A simple “careless” isn’t exactly accurate or gets to the root of the problem, what caused the carelessness or what influenced it, some people seem to forget that things aren’t always black and white, and forget they were once new and inexperienced.

I did admit to messing up, and telling me that I am completely careless and shouldn’t be driving is fairly extreme. Everyone has a bad time at things on occasion and acting like you haven’t and giving me the riot act is ludicrous.

This has been enlightening for me of the community, and I shall remember to be perfect on my next job, that is if I’m even hired again as one person has mentioned earlier.

I wish everyone a good day.

Post-script: Constructive criticism is not the same as putting someone down for errors, there needs to be a build up, how to better, hence the constructive part. There is your example

How is it that you are having backing accidents with almost a year of experience? And not G.O.A.L.-ing in a tight spot...after two previous accidents. Like OS said, you are NOT learning from your mistakes. You seem careless.

Yes, tiredness does cause carelessness, but I did learn from each new unique mistake. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to show that I learned from the mistakes.

But, to be frank, sometimes stuff just happens and it snowballs and it puts you into the mindset to mess up more.

I do wonder if I made mistakes during my first few months if it would’ve gave me the insight and personal experience to avoid these recent mistakes.

Hmm, yes next time I will type on a forum like I am in a interview, thank you.

not sure how I only got his air line.

That's pretty amazing. I was wondering the same thing as Bruce, but just left it alone. Your answer tells me there's way more to this story.

I also don't understand how you managed to do so well at CRST, but then once you get hired somewhere else you start having accidents. Do you have any explanation for it?

I think I backed the corner of the trailer in between the tractor and trailer, pinched the line, so the line acted as a buffer.

Most likely overconfidence, switching to solo, not getting a schedule down right, letting dispatch run me ragged, stress from home(late night drop off and a run back to terminal for a pick up was a contributor for the first incident.)

What happened when you "took out someone's air line? How did you do that?

I was backing into a spot at a truck stop, thought I had it, ignored my instinct to get out and look because of thinking about a shower, not sure how I only got his air line.

Hello

I am not an experienced driver...or a driver at all, but I will say, I think some moderators and experienced drivers will need more information. You mentioned about 4 years ago, going to Knight. Have you been when them ever since? Have you tried to apply elsewhere? If you have been driving that long and then all of the sudden have 3 preventable's in 3 months, maybe they think something is wrong and best to cut ties. I am not sure, but we do have at least 2 experienced KNIGHT drivers in the forum.

Best of luck Chris

I was thinking on it four years ago and got the stuff to study. I finally took the plunge a year and a half ago with a sponsorship from CRST, worked the 10 months and quit to go to Knight.

I’ve had three preventable accidents in a 3 month period and got fired from Knight. Two were parking mistakes while tired, scratched a side mirror and on the second took out someone’s air line, no other damage. My third was at a shipper that had a garage like enclosure around their docks, saw I was close on one side went to correct forgetting I had the trailer door chained open and took out the door with the steel/concrete column, no damage to property, just broke the hinges off the door. So I guess the question would be, am I screwed on getting another driving job? They were simple mistakes and I’ve learned from them, but I feel like that’s not how that’s gonna be looked at.

Hey, I applied to Knight and got a call back from a recruiter. She said everything checked out and to get my CDL written test done locally and to call back. I've had some set backs and I am just getting to it almost a month later, will that look bad on me?

To be clear, every one at my current work got fired and I got to cover with one other person 7 day/11AM-2AM shifts, also my landlord/best friend's father died who I also used as a reference. Plus money restraints, like being paid every two weeks and I didn't have the money then.

So, it wasn't just because of being non-productive.

Edit: 11AM, not PM

Hey, I applied to Knight Transportation and got a call back from a recruiter. She said everything checked out and to get my CDL written test done locally and to call back. I've had some setbacks and I am just getting to it almost a month later, will that look bad on me?

To be clear, everyone at my current job got fired and I got to cover with one other person 7 day/11PM-2AM shifts, also my landlord/best friend's father died who I also used as a reference. Plus money restraints, like being paid every two weeks and I didn't have the money then.

So, it wasn't just because of being non-productive.