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ricky05
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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Location: Cali
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: Trucking Jobs... |
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| How many driving jobs have you had?? If you could, please tell why??? |
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carbon
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| 4 to be exact and that was back in 2000. The first was right out of school and the a@@hole still owes me 1500 bucks. delivered beer in Detroit for 2 months until I was held up at gunpoint ( he only got 6 cases of 22oz bud) shuttle drove for a foods company til I wasn't getting any sleep at night and the last was a driver leasing company. AND IF IT'S ANYTHING YOU READ IN THIS POST DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT DRIVE FOR A DRIVER LEASING COMPANY. They ran my only 2 days a week if I was lucky til they put me with a company that hauled auto parts. Needless to say I ran my ass off that is until my boss found out and fired me. He claimed it wasn't fair to the other drivers. When I asked the other drivers they had said they worked at least 32 hrs per week. What a (*(^ of crap. That was in Feb of 2001. My dumb butt didn't look at my MVR or else I wouldn't be in the boat I am in now...Looking to get back in! |
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GMAN
Joined: 13 Feb 2005
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Location: Tennessee
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Well Ricky,
I would say I have had no more than 6 driving jobs over more than 30
years. I like running my own show. That is why I own my own equipment.
You don't say why you are asking. Most drivers have a lot of jobs
with a number of companies. A lot of them think the grass is always
greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes that is true. However,
my experience is that there isn't a lot of difference in the companies. You
put them in a box and you can't tell one from another. Over the course of
a career you lose many thousands of dollars by switching companies. If
you find a good one you better stay with them. :P |
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Bisquit
Joined: 08 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Over the last 15 or so years I have had 6 counting my present. I left most because the freight slowed way down or when working local cause the work just dried up and was working like 20 hrs a week. I did get let go from one job. I had a wreck in Laredo,TX. I was ticketed but later got the ticket dismissed cause it wasn't my fault and I shouldn't have been ticketed in the first place. After 4 years with the company I was let go because the company( home office is in Bakersfield,Ca) instituted a zero accident policy. Too bad, i would have spent the rest of my working life there cause I really like the people I worked with and enjoyed my job. I made reallllllly goooood money and had excellent benefits. Oh well life goes on..............Don |
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ricky05
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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Location: Cali
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks guys I just wanted to know since the trucking companies are now saying that there more interested in driver retention(DON'T WANT YOU TO UP & LEAVE) :lol: , instead of constantly looking for new drivers that don't know any better. I've had 6 jobs over the last 10 years that I actually worked any time with, twice with one, three times with another. But my good ol' DAC report says I've had 11, it doesn't make since 5 of the companies were just orientation only. Thankfully I have a good MVR. :D |
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beaner
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 90
Location: texas
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| i,ve only held 4 driving jobs the first was a straight truck hualing sand the second was for a large company lost that job to my own mistake 3rd job was hualing cars would,nt do that again 4th job was hualing logs out of the woods was ok i now drive for a small company in texas pulling a refeer cross country and hope to stay with them for a long time |
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midnight rider
Joined: 20 Jan 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Beaner, where you from? |
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small
Joined: 23 Mar 2005
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Location: California
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Since my start in trucking back in 2000, I've had 6 trucking jobs. It's good to hear the trucking companies now talking about retention, but I'd have to see it to believe it.
A friend of mine is have a having a hard time finding a quality driving job because of the number of jobs they've had. Seems like when you have had more than 5 jobs...your still ok...if your last job was longer than 6 months. Now if you've had 12 trucking jobs, and you've never spent more than a year at any of them...good luck. Trucking companies think your just going to do the same with them...just up & leave.
But if the dispatchers had a little more training in dealing with drivers respectfully, keeping their word, & load planning...and companies paid drivers more, their turn-over rates wouldn't be as high. But that just my thinking...I'm just one driver :wink: |
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bluebeetle
Joined: 17 Jul 2002
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Location: Lincoln, NE
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| We had a driver submit an application with 26 jobs in the last 5 years! |
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727guy
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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bluebeetle wrote: We had a driver submit an application with 26 jobs in the last 5 years!
If I did my math right, that averages out to 2.3 months per job. No sense in hiring him. He'd leave before you got all your new hire paperwork completed on him. :roll: Question is, exactly what is he trying to hide... or run from??
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ricky05
Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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Location: Cali
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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[b]WOW!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:
I thought I had alot of jobs. :D |
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Turn Signal
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Ive had 3 since 1-1-03 two with same company , one that turned out to be seasonal and the one im with now. The one i worked twice for when i quit the first time i was right out of school and had worked two months and was having a hard time adapting so i left waited 3months and tried again with a different mind set and gave them 15 months till i finally left because of a obnoxious dispatcher with a people problem. From what i hear on the cb dispatchers are a big reason drivers leave jobs. |
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SafetyIsKey
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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Location: California
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Well if your not treated well at the job your at, you've asked for help & received NONE. I don't think you should stay. I've had 9 trucking jobs in the last 6 years. I'm happy at the one I'm with now, they treat me respectfully, keep their word, & plan the loads with enough time to get there. & they have yet to ask me for a "FAVOR" before getting a load home. |
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kentucky orphan
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
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Location: southern IL.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: # of jobs. |
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just for the record this is the only driving job I have ever had. Odds are that this is where I will retire. I got lucky and got a good one the first time.
I admit that it hasn't been all a bed of roses but in the overall the +'s have outweighed the -'s by a ton. It's little things that make the difference. Like earlier this year when I had a family emergency and needed to take a weeks vacation. I hadn't reached my next anniversary date to get my next round of vacation yet. Now they could have let me take off and waited to pay me until I had earned it but they didn't. They could have said that I could take the time off unpaid. They didn't. They let me take a week and trusted me enough to go ahead and pay me for it even though I didn't have it coming yet. There was never a question, it was " what do you need". When you find a company that treats you like this the small BS does not matter. |
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SafetyIsKey
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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Location: California
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Your very lucky K, most of us have to go a few rounds before we get it right...I'm happy for you & good luck :D |
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