I Got Sent Home By Con-way Freight

Time to start lining up that next Company !! ... good luck.!!

In my time scouring the internet learning all I can, I heard several times that Con-Way simply isn't as good a company as it was it the past. It is a new management configuration.

It's all meant to be :)

...and maybe even in the beginning, I wasn't totally honest with myself, that this company was going to be too much for me - unsafe routes, newbie policies, and all. A lot of things were really good but maybe those weren't the important things.

-mountain girl

Well, f*** `em!

Mountain Girl, If the company I worked for treated me like that instead of being upstanding, I would probably be black listed from trucking. You are better than that and you will find the right company to drive for. There is not one person in this profession who can say they didn`t hit some bumps along the way.

That company just does not fit you and would probably make you miserable even if you were kept on. Like I said before, a blessing disguised as a disappointment. Shake your head, laugh at their ridiculousness and keep rolling!

-Rolling Thunder

You are so right RT. Think about it: they have some dangerous runs. Check out your Google Earth and the terrain here: there's a linehaul run from Henderson to Grand Junction and back, in one night. The route to take is I-70 West to Grand Junction and then I-70 East back to Henderson. And with hazmat , you must take the designated route. You can't make up your own, here. Understand, that you cannot take a hazmat load through Eisenhower tunnel unless Loveland Pass is closed due to a bad snow storm. It has to be reeeeeally bad for them to shut Loveland Pass down. So, even with a snowstorm that's not heavy enough to shut down Loveland pass but still heavy, it's still dangerous and freaky as h*** pulling 40 tons in doubles or triples with hazmat. Combine that with driving over the Pass at NIGHT, in a snowstorm. Shoot. Loveland Pass is scary, on the ground, in your CAR in broad daylight on a dry road, in the summertime but when you're driving a tractor trailer, you don't even SEE the road below you. The turns are sharp and the road is too narrow to see beneath your wheels. Now combine that with the idea that the best and most experienced drivers in the company, who make money driving this route in the summertime, have the privilege of refusing the load in the wintertime and accepting the next load that shows up on the board. Guess who has to take the load that the most experienced driver has just turned down? That's right. The most INexperienced drivers have to take that load. This does not make sense. The "turns" on Loveland Pass are not turns - they're SWITCHbacks - turns that suddenly take you 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I'm not a whimp. I've jumped out of airplanes, while in flight, etc. But I'm not stupid. What if I lose my gear and I still have ice, snow, low visibility, night driving and 3 miles left of switchbacks to go? That mountain is dangerous as hell, all by itself, let alone all the above factors...

There's your blessing in disguise.

-mountain girl

Daumm, I really want to drive that now!

Just dont go to werner, lest you get trainers that wont teach you much, my first didnt do a thing for first 126 hrs, next guy was more interested in any girl he saw along the way then me and the last 2 didnt want me to back up at all

Just dont go to werner, lest you get trainers that wont teach you much, my first didnt do a thing for first 126 hrs, next guy was more interested in any girl he saw along the way then me and the last 2 didnt want me to back up at all

oh yeah and they just might send you to newark and newyork your first week out too

MG, after reading all this I believe you are the meaning of adversity. You have a great supporting cast here. As a young soon to be rookie-in-training, I consider your hardships as inspiring. You are representing the trucking community and all the female drivers now and the future ones. As a young gun, one thing I have been told everyday is to keep on, keepin on. This may be a biker motto but I believe it has been used by truckers all over. "Ride to live, Live to ride." Best of luck to you and Keep on Keepin on!

Daumm, I really want to drive that now!

-RT

-mountain girl

Just dont go to werner, lest you get trainers that wont teach you much, my first didnt do a thing for first 126 hrs, next guy was more interested in any girl he saw along the way then me and the last 2 didnt want me to back up at all

-Daniel A.

Gotcha'

-mountain girl

MG, after reading all this I believe you are the meaning of adversity. You have a great supporting cast here. As a young soon to be rookie-in-training, I consider your hardships as inspiring. You are representing the trucking community and all the female drivers now and the future ones. As a young gun, one thing I have been told everyday is to keep on, keepin on. This may be a biker motto but I believe it has been used by truckers all over. "Ride to live, Live to ride." Best of luck to you and Keep on Keepin on!

-Sean

Keep on Truckin'

Or as Dori says, "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."

-mountain girl

You are truly one of kind MG. Some males are intimidated by a female such as yourself. The reason is they supposedly can't run with the big dogs. It isn't just with trucking either. A female can go toe to toe with any male in anything and as is more often the case best him. Some males that you may encounter in your travels will try to get the best of you, but there are a great deal more of males who like to see the passion and drive that a female brings to the table. Those guys should be intimidated. It scares them. I back you 120%. Show them what females are made of, MG. Keep on truckin!