Hi. New to the boards and trucking.

I am a recent grad of C1 Truck Driving School. School went fine, no problems. Received my CDL A in Indiana and transfered to Michigan. Upon graduation I signed on with Werner.

Two days into my job/training with my driver/trainer I received a citation for crossing marked lanes. This happened between Batavia and Owensville, Ohio at the intersection of sr222 and sr276. The turn in question was approximately 130 degrees. At the direction of my trainer I proceeded around the corner and with his guidance promptly drove the trailer tires over the sr. identification sign. A state trooper responded to the scene and wrote the citation.

We proceeded to pick up the load that we were after and headed for N.C. with me driving (driver/trainer was out of hours). I drove to Knoxville where we had to swap loads and ended up in Atlanta. Ga. After delivering the load in Atlanta we went to the Werner terminal where I was terminated over the above incident.

I didn't know how to proceed with this incident. I received no advice from anyone, including my driver/trainer. So I screwed up and paid the ticket.

Now, and I understand why, there are no carriers that will hire me without at least 3-6 months of otr. But noone will hire me so that I can gain that experience.

The local market is practically dead. I live in Jackson, Mi. - intersection of I94 and US127. A carrier told me I wouldn't even be considered for their school let alone a job because of this, even though I already have my CDL A.

Sorry to be so long winded, but this is just eating me up. I spent approximately 2 months and 4 grand and now I have a CDL A that I cannot use.

I thought of possibly training with an O/O or teaming with someone that needs the help. Don't know of anyone.

Can anyone advise/help/kick me in the ass?

Or am I just SCREWED!!!

Thanks in advance.

 

It is usually a good idea to fight any moving violation tickets when you have a CDL. Getting a ticket only 2 days after starting with a carrier and having no experience makes it difficult. There are a few recruiters who frequent this board. You may address your situation directly with them. They might offer more advice for you.

 

I am surprised they fired you on the spot,

But I don't know Werner all that well. Maybe with some extra on site training and additionaly safety classes, they should have put you with a more qualified finisher.
Can you contact the school for help with this? or have you already done that?
They passed you. Seems like after only two day you might not have been ready.

 

One option is to try and have an attorney talk to the jurisdiction in question to get the charge changed on your record. Of course, this may not work and would cost you some money even if it failed. I'm going to make an unfair assumption, based on the information in your post, and guess that you don't have a ton of extra money in the mattress. Tough call in that case.

If you assume that the ticket isn't going anywhere, things get pretty tough. If I were you (and I'm not), I would do the following:

1) Click this link and bookmark the page.
2) Get to dialing.
3) Check the bookmarked page at least twice a day.
4) Understand that your best case scenario is probably to work for a company that you've never heard of, for less money than you probably think you deserve, for at least a few months.
4b) Also understand that this will likely not be considered "experience" by any company that you've ever heard of, thus conceivably not moving your driving career forward in any way.

Or you can just hope for the best. I know of a couple of guys who got fired from CFI for accidents and wound up falling in with some decent smaller outfits. The Catch-22 of having no experience and nobody to give you the experience really doesn't leave you with any magic cure.

 

Too bad about your Werner mishap....if possible i would try to make it disappear if i could ($$$$$)

Really odd that they canned u over that...i know of people (including myself)

who have had small things happen during their start up period and they were given some slack.

PS:I had a trainee some time back and it was part of my job to keep them out of trouble and point out 'ticket situations' to them as they learned to handle the big truck...Sounds like Werner is lacking themselves when it comes to training

 

You wanna play boy? Come here, I throw your bone for ya!

NOW FETCH!

 

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Originally Posted by Trukrswyfe

I am surprised they fired you on the spot,

But I don't know Werner all that well. Maybe with some extra on site training and additionaly safety classes, they should have put you with a more qualified finisher.
Can you contact the school for help with this? or have you already done that?
They passed you. Seems like after only two day you might not have been ready.

And you have experience driving a truck ???? :lol: :lol: :lol:

You wanna play boy? Come here, I throw your bone for ya!

NOW FETCH!

Still waiting for an answer..... Maybe you should stick to the topics that you have first hand knowledge of... such as eating, inappropriate inuendos, etc.... As you have you proven that you have no real life knowledge or experience in the world of trucking, other than what you fantasize on the www.......

 

I fantasize on the www....

But if I about posted it.. I probably would get banned from CAD .. and I find the info here way too valuable for that.

 

I know you are, waiting, heel, sit,Good dog..... Actually it's called sex, but I would expect you to have any idea what that means. Short block..... :roll:

Here's your ball boy.
here it is. watch it, watch it.

GO GET IT!