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Not only No but H*LL no. I’m not putting my life in the hands of a stranger!!!

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First off your safety dept needs to get the crash report and go over it with you for accuracy. Things don’t sound right here the way it is written. It doesn’t appear to be a DOT reportable so that is good.

IF you had safe clearance at the start of the lane change then the rest makes of the other drivers actions really make no difference as to fault.

All states set their own points systems for violations. That question needs to be asked of the court or drivers license agency.

I would certainly fight the ticket if you had clearance at the start of the lane change.

The other driver having an expired licesne really has no bearing on this, it isca collateral issue not a reason the crash occurred. That was the ofgicers discretion.

Welcome, I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, however it may save your life.

I pulled tankers for about 6 years. I loved it. However it is a much different type of trailer and load that new drivers should never attempt. There are way too many variables that new drivers are not prepared to deal with. Depending on the load any mistake can be disatrious and fatal. Any tanker company offering brand new drivers a job is an idiot and I would certainly never work for.

As for company pay during school and/or training. That is wide and varied throughout the industry. You should look at the entire picture of what the company has too offer before making a decision on them.

It used to be any reputable tanker company required 2 years driving experience. Then it was mostly reduced to 1 yr experience. That is for the most part an industry standard.

Get your feet wet, so to speak and at least 1 yr experience before taking the leap to tankers. Perfect your driving in all aspects, because tankers do get in some pretty close quarters.

Just because someone is legal to drive something doesn’t make it smart or safe for them to do so.

Federal reg’s require any gaps in employment the previous 10 years be explained. They want to ensure you weren’t training in terror camps overseas.

Most companies on require a notorized letter from people who can verify what you were doing. It’s not a very big hurdle.

Yes any of the companies that offer company sponsored training hire the student upon successful graduation.

You don’t get that guarantee with private schooling. Most have job placement assistance, but that is far from a guarantee.

With the current job market going company sponsored is the safe/smart way to go.

Start reading through cargo securement. That will be huge during your training.

I remember Jack Cooper coming in basically in the 11th hour trying to make a deal. The courts were already involved and made the final ruling against the purchase.

I don’t remember alot of the proposal but a key componet was the gov’t re-structuring and putting off the repayment of the bailout yellow had been given. The gov’t treasury was not in favor of that process.

We all know a very large portion of yellow’s demise was bad management. I don’t know if that is the case at Jack Cooper, but that can’t be ruled out I don’t think.

I remember back during the auto industry bailouts the term widely used was “too big to fail”. That one turned out ok in the long run, but I for one don’t see what obligation the tax payers have to bailout any company.

We as individuals are responsible for our actions and I believe that goes for large companies as well. As a very small carrier I’m solely responsible for my own decisions. If those are bad decisions I pay the price for it and sure would never approach a customer telling them they need to bail me out.

When this first dropped it caught my cuoristy. The CEO Sara Amico has been in the news in the past, not entirely in a good way.

It sounded odd at first and she blamed Ford/GM for all the trouble. Well not so fast.

A deeper dive has shown things have been going on for weeks/months. Sara has been trying to get Gm to make a 200 million investment into Jack Cooper funding operations. GM asked about Ford and GM doing something and she talked Gm into approaching Ford saying she could not do it per their contract. GM did her bidding and as we all see Ford was not impressed and cancelled their contract.

Then Sara went to GM and was trying to raise rates claiming they had no choice. That was what spooked GM. She said if they didn’t go along with her they would have to shutdown. That was what caused GM to unload 50 new corvett’s and terminate their contract.

Jack Cooper official statements are they are still in neogations with GM. GM sure says the opposite.

In 2019 Jack Cooper declared bankruptcy too restructure its debit. That was 6 years after their final buying spree of 4-5 companies. Last one was purchased in 2013. Now 6 years later they apparently have money problems again and tried getting their 2 largest customers to invest 200 million in them.

Makes a reasonable person ask what is and has been going on within that company.

Teamsters have been making threats off and on even making a statement whatever carriers get the contracts they will make them join the teamsters those loads belong to the union.

I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think the union can force anyone to join them.

We all saw the fall of yellow and i haven’t heard any success stories of what the union did for those members that lost their jobs. I don’t expect anything different on this one.

This makes the 2nd large trucking company that are union going out of business in recent times, makes me wonder what effect if any the union played in the demise directly or indirectly?

This came off of AI.

These offer differing accounts exactly what this is. I have a friend who is a retired DOT Capt. I’ll call him later and see what he knows about it.