Profile For Dawn D.

Truly thank you both for your stories and insight.. Mountain Girl, Im much like you happy and go lucky.. people who are ugly inside don't like people happy go lucky.. I'm in school right now. Next week start my driving training and when the lady from recruit office asked me what I look for in a employer, I said A dispatcher who can handle my upbeat energy. Now I see is very important what I said to her. Hope you don't give up ♥️

Old School, thank you for all the different ways to handle situations as will be handy as I go out to drive

Mountain Girl, I am so sorry to hear how this all turned out! Man, I just wish there was something I could do to help - it's sometimes very frustrating watching the folks that we have encouraged and mentored along the way, and then having to watch them get knocked around in their new careers. You have had one tough challenge after another, and you have done everything you could to try and get this off the ground. I commend you for your valiant efforts!

For those of you who are new in our forum, Mountain Girl's experience is a great example of why we try to get folks to put in a good solid year of over the road driving before you start trying to land a local driving job. Those local jobs can be grueling! Not only are there more intense demands upon the drivers skills, you are also dealing with multiple dispatchers, constant demands and changes in what needs to be done right away, and it is just a very demanding work environment that is usually in a constant state of flux. I'm really thinking of P & D work which is what Mountain Girl was doing.

This is a major problem for the women. So often we have ladies come in here who want to get into this career, but they still have children that they are responsible for. Taking an over the road job is out of the question so they double down on looking for local work, and they find that it is a very tough nut to cut! Of course the men have just as much trouble with it, and often times they will look for local jobs just so they can stay near by their families. All of this is commendable, but people just never realize how tough it is. Then there is the additional problem of if things don't work out for you then it is double tough to go out and get another driving job, because most folks are looking for Over The Road experience, and they are not real keen on hiring someone with some accidents on their record.

Mountain Girl, please stay in touch with us, and let us know if things develop so that you are able to find some more work driving truck.

Again, I am hurting with you, and I just wish there was someway I could help you advance your career. You're still our poster child as far as I'm concerned.

Awesome response 😁

There is a really obvious way to get out of that contract. Write them a check! Pay up! That's what a contract is - it's an agreement. You agreed to it. If you have now decided there's a better way for you to proceed, then the contract allows you to do so.

Now, there's a much smarter way to go about this. You can fulfill your employment obligation and focus on learning how to be successful at this. Right now you are focusing on "how bad Western Express is." That's your first big blunder. You have fallen for the bait and feel the pain of the trap now. You have taken the common delusional approach to trucking of at least a million other wannabes. You think you are good, but your company is bad. That's so messed up and arrogant that I can't believe rookies fall for it so easily, but they do.

Get in there and make something happen. Be a man of your word. Be careful and prudent. Be productive. Be determined. Be a truck driver - God knows we need a few good ones about now.

During this time of grounding to this house, I started with a CDL school. Even though we can't get into DMV for general knowledge test we are doing homework assignments and classes over zoom . When time is right we will get into the DMV for the permit test.. So glad to have started school during this time as to have dream of CDL Knowledge and the extra time to study while waiting for DMV to open back up.. With outlook of what can I do instead of wish I could made a difference when applying to school as found out could get student loans to help pay and not take the course through a company that hires while trains. As for the one difference of being able to continue education during this time 😁