Profile For Nathan R.

Hello everyone,

I chose trucking because I like to drive and I liked driving, I am not nearly the best backer in the world but I felt I was getting better and could do a pretty decent job as long as I was some what straight.

When I finally got my license in July I went to work for a major trucking company, in that time I had a few minor incidents that I consider part of learning process. When I was backing I hit a construction barrel while I was with a trainer. Backing into a consignee's door I rolled my tandems onto the pipes that are supposed to help guide the trailer into the door, this ripped off the splash guard and bent the bracket, no damage to the con's property.

Last month on the same day I blew a trailer tire trying to make a tight corner, and on the same day I may have damaged a light on the consignees dock. I didn't know about that until a guy was taking pictures of the light, and I didn't know the light was there, but I neither acknowledged or denied that I did it, because I was trying to back into a dock that was also a parking lot for their employees, it is a single dock and they just had a break in a chain link fence. I needed more space my plan was to bump the bumper on the dock and as far as I know that is what I did.

But I got fired for damaging a tractor with my trailer which scratched the lens of the other passenger head light knocked off part of bumper, the police was called and that was my first and only accident. I was fired for this last week and all the big companies are saying that I need to wait a year with some experience before they will let me drive for them. This is the one that I am telling them that I was fired for, but my company blind sided me with the last two incidents as well when they performed my accident review. No citations were issued for any of these.

I reported these incidents to the company in the same detail as I have posted, there were several hard braking incidents too, but most of them were from bob tailing. Do any of you have any advice or know of any companies that are hiring that would fill these qualifications, or should I give up on trucking and try again later, and go back to a boring office job? I am looking into local work and local driving jobs that would not require a class A.