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Originally Posted by rubberducky
at my current job Im in a different truck every day and my company has a variety of trucks with a variety of transmisisons. today I might be in a 13 speed, tommorrow a fully automatic, the next day a 9 speed.
A 13 speed is the same exact transmission and gear pattern as a 9 speed just with a spliiter so you have the gears between your gears on the top side :wink: when I was in the prcess of getting my CDL the school had 8,9's and 10 speed transmissions and some trucks with different rear ends in them ...And it was an easy switch between any of them ,But after driving the same 9 speed transmission for 2.5 years since getting my CDL the 9 speend patter is so burnt into my head I had to look down at the patter a couple times .
I came home to get my stuff to go out ,and fell and sprained my wrist/forearm pretty good , And asked them if I could wait a couple days to hit the road , As I have little strengh in the sprained forearm/wrist ,and it would be rather unsafe when shifting ,as I don't think I could safely hold the wheel with the sprained appendage, So they said they had revoke the offer of employment . This may have been a good thing ,because the more I listedned into things there ,and saw the operation the more I had the idea I was making a bad choice ,And I don't want to start with a company just to quit 2 months down the road .
The things that gave me bad thoughts about this company was lack of a 24 hr dispatch ..lack any 800 numbers for contact...Some rather harsh policies ...for example if for any reason I have tire damage it comes out of my pay doesn't matter what happened ...While I was at the terminal the cops showed up 3x in 2 days for issues regarding the illegal holding of employee wages ...I think me slipping on the ice may have been divine intervention :wink: