Profile For Mikey B.

I may be wrong, maybe I was letting frustration with another poster get in the way.

If I am wrong then prove me to be wrong by overcoming the adversity with your current employer by sticking with them and succeeding. Become a top tier driver.

Your training from them may not be the best but between what you have gotten and all of the tools and people at your disposal you have everything needed to succeed. Id love nothing more than for you to prove me wrong. Do that and ill admit I was wrong about you...and apologize to you.

Thats the best I can do.

No Victor, I stated the truth of your situation.

Let’s give this a rest.

If Victor hasn’t gotten the message by now... any further attempts to rebuke him is futile.

It’s up to him now.

I agree 100%, I'm done replying to him. Don't feed the trolls.

Lots of good information in this thread, thanks! New issue...I have a driver noting Loading time under PC...this is clearly a violation but I can't get through to him. Ugh, the nice approach isn't working but I know no other way now than to be rude about it...

Has he run out of time on his 14 hour clock when he does this? He may be trying to finish the load without getting a 14 hr violation recorded. If so explain to him he can use any unused on duty time for the day without violating.

That decision is completely yours. My knowledge of trucking tells me that you will be disappointed with your training wherever you go. There is no way to cover every single kind of flatbed load during a week's worth of training. I don't know of any companies who spend more than four or five days on securement training

I was mistaken, I thought a company like Maverick or P&S would spend quality time teaching load securement. That is the reason I'm thinking about going to another company. TMC did 2 weeks classroom/pad and 4-6 weeks OTR with an actual flatbed driver, but you know that...I know their drivers are very prepared for different situations.

I have no problem learning on my own but with this it seems dangerous to do so. IMO, Learning how to back a spread axle trailer on my own is completely different than learning load securement on my own. But I will continue to do research every night and study the ins and outs of flatbed driving.

Thank you for your thoughts on the per diem. That was exactly what I was thinking when I read into it. For me, I just don't see the benefit of it....

Not to discourage you but why don't you quit trucking and get a job where they tell you everything to do with a boss standing over you? I honest think that's what kind if job you are meant for.

I have always wanted to be a truck driver but instead I became an engineer for 40 plus years. Now I am retired (63) and to old to start a new career. I have a couple of items left on my bucket list to do. One of them is to do a long haul with an experienced truck driver. I live in the Portland Maine and if you do not mind having me tag along with you for a few days/ week please let me know.

Thanks and thanks for helping me with my bucket list

David

Let me say to you, you are NOT too old to DRIVE a truck on your own!! If you really want to experience it, get a cdl and hire on to a company. You can go from studying for the permit test to driving solo in a couple months and very little expense. Nobody says you have to drive till you kick that bucket. You just might like it and have a new career or drive a few months and re-retire. Either way you could scratch that off the list only upgraded as the actual driver!!

I fail to see how you can COMPLETELY exonerate a TRAINER from any responsibility or the companies lack of communication back and forth as my responsibility to go wip them into shape. Geepers.

 I would probably have stayed at Swift for 2 years if it was not for the incidents that resulted from a lack of communication from the driver development personal when I called. I also did attempt to get extra training but never recieved it.

Wow. Good to see you STILL find someone else at fault for your mistakes. Good luck with the fighter pilot dream.

Victor, I went back and read some of your years old posts. You claim a slim 201 hours wasn't enough and laid blame on your trainer.

You claim to take full responsibility then blame him in the same sentence. You say he was a good mentor except backing then blame him for your accidents.

You need to grow TF up. You act like a bratty child that always got a participation trophy whose parents praised him for last place. Just stop already.

We all know you aren't going to school and aren't going to be a fighter pilot. After all, it takes YEARS to train for that and you'd just crash 4 or 5 jets then blame the crappy Air Force, lack of training, your trainers, then get on a pilots website running them down, recommending other prospective pilots avoid the Air Force like the plague.

You have a habit of claiming to accept responsibility then blaming someone else for your failures all in the same breath. Its a deep seated personality flaw within you. You will probably never get over it and it will ALWAYS keep you down.

I wish you good luck in whatever you do...you'll need it, but stop BSing yourself because we don't believe literally anything you say (at least I don't) about anything. Stop running down perfectly good companies because YOU can't hack it.

There are no participation trophies in trucking, we will not praise you for last place. We will call you out on your BS, don't like it? Then change your ways starting with an apology for wasting our time.

And I wanted to be an astronaut... :-)

What you know about rolling down in the deep?

Clarify for me, what exactly were the five incidents that got you canned?

I fail to see how you can COMPLETELY exonerate a TRAINER from any responsibility or the companies lack of communication back and forth as my responsibility to go wip them into shape. Geepers.

 I would probably have stayed at Swift for 2 years if it was not for the incidents that resulted from a lack of communication from the driver development personal when I called. I also did attempt to get extra training but never recieved it.

Wow. Good to see you STILL find someone else at fault for your mistakes. Good luck with the fighter pilot dream.

 I would probably have stayed at Swift for 2 years if it was not for the incidents that resulted from a lack of communication from the driver development personal when I called. I also did attempt to get extra training but never recieved it.

Wow. Good to see you STILL find someone else at fault for your mistakes. Good luck with the fighter pilot dream.