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Kai, I am a Christian. I don't want to haul alcohol either. Not because the loads are heavy but because I always have a feeling that what I'm hauling someone will use irresponsibly and kill someone.

I don't want to haul beef because I know that hundreds of cows had to die to fill up my trailer.

I work at Central Refrigerated and guess what? You won't ever be able to get out of kansas without taking a beef load because there is nothing else in Kansas!

Also, if you're in Denver, you won't get out of Denver without hauling either Coors Light or Budweiser. Because there is almost nothing else for us to haul in that area.

But I have to because its the job that I applied for. So if I were you, I'd forever be stuck in Denver, CO because after I refuse to haul beer and they definitely won't deadhead you 500 miles for a different load.

What I'm trying to get at is, you won't be moving. Literally. It'll be rare to even get a load and you'll be treated like dirt and be given local deliveries that only pay 30$.

With those refusals you'll be making just as much as you would be making working at McDonalds part time. We aren't here to bash on you, we all are trying to help.

I know your religion is important to you, it is to me also. But this isn't the field where you can just use religion against the company to do less work - especially as a rookie. You'll be fired real quick because they can and will replace you with someone who can keep the truck moving and generate more money for them.

I never talked about refusing loads. I never said that I plan to refuse loads, but Knight Transportation give their drivers for example three loads to choose from and the driver chooses one of them. If it is the only load then I don't have the choice but to take it and I would never refuse a load. However, if I can choose between two or three loads then it would make it more convenient for me.

If I am forced to take a load then it is difficult to stand out of the masses, but if you are allowed to refuse the load, but you are nonetheless never refusing loads, this would cause are greater impact on the dispatcher. In the first case every driver takes the load, because they must take it by force. In the second case drivers are allowed to refuse a load and probably many will refuse, but drivers who never refuse freight will be standing out among the masses. He will not be a number anymore, but his availability will be noticed by the dispatchers and management.

In my life, I learned the motto: "If you do something by force they you just do it as a burden or obligation, but if you do something out of free will and by your own choice then this show that you love to do it."

The same goes with hometime. Many will take and demand hometime, but if I show them that I am always available while the masses do their hometime, dispatcher will notice and I would stand out. I would be considered above average. If I am forced like everyone else then it is more difficult to become above average. I don't want to be just an average driver.

If I am forced to take the load and I take it then I just follow the stream. If I am forced to take the load and I refuse it then I am rocking the boat and become below average.

If I am allowed to refuse the load and I choose to refuse the loads then I would be an average driver. If I take the load and I am always available and always reliable, then I would become a driver that is dedicated and above average. By being always available, I would go against the stream.

It is easier to show off your dedication when I am not forced.

Hope you understand what I mean, now.

Sounds like your plan is to become an elite, reliable driver by accepting loads when you have the option to refuse them. Assuming everyone else makes a fuss by refusing loads - but you'll go against the mainstream by accepting loads and not creating a fuss... Like everyone else?

I feel like you are focusing on the wrong things. The things that don't mean anything. You are going to become a reliable driver by being safe and on time on all deliveries not by accepting loads when others reject them.

I have seen more than a few drivers refuse loads due to religious reasons and they all are no longer driving from the companies they refused to haul loads from. What if its alcohol or whatever else that is in the trailer. Does not matter. They are not telling you to use the product. Just take it to where it needs to go. And you do not even touch most of the freight. Just the trailer. Almost all companies haul alcohol cause it pays the bills. And since you agree to do your job AND all assigned duties when going to work for a company no court in the land will stand behind you since you are not being forced to consume alcohol. Sorry but I see you having a very short career driving a truck.

That is true. Maybe Covenant might give you a shot, and might respect your "no alcohol" policy. They are a "pro-life" trucking company.

Dave

That makes more sense. If you would have given that example from the start such as Knights 3 load way of doing things then I do believe that most of this thread could have been avoided.