Originally Posted by driver67373

I recently got off the road and took a local job with Performance Food Group. It's all right and all, but it seems to me there's a lack of professionlam and pride in your job that I found more common on the road. Both of my "trainers" I've been with, if you can call them trainers, one of them had less experience than I do and I've been driving 8 months. The other one has 9 years driving experience. Well both of them have never been on the road, I get the feeling that they don't see themselves as a truck driver first, that this is just their job. Both of them drive dangerously, taking exit ramps 15-20 mph above the posted ramp speed...maybe you can get away with that with a 26 ft trailer? But I was trained that you NEVER take a ramp at that speed, that you want to be going about 5 miles below the posted speed cus those are for cars. Excessive speeding, for example going 50 through a 30 zone that I wouldn't feel safe doing even in my car. I've only been driving 8 months and I drive safter than both of these drivers. They tailgate exvessivly as well on the open freeway often with 1 to 1.5 second following distance. I'm not used to such a relaxed saftey attitude at a company. I do miss over the road and sometimes I do wonder if the grass really is greener on the other side. Is this common though for local gigs to be more relaxed on saftely and allow driving like this? I don't like that kind of attitude so I'm not sure what to do, it just doesn't feel professional, and I am a PROFESSIONAL truck driver.