For any new people I would like to Welcome you to this new thread!
As my husband began his new career in trucking he went to Sage in Post Falls Idaho. A very good school but all trucking school does is teach you enough to obtain your CDL.
Because of May Truckings higher training pay that was $500.00 a week at that time he choose to go with them.
So off with his brand new class A CDL he began orientation at May Trucking on July 24, 2006.
He went out with his trainer but spent time off with his trainer at his house and actually was only trained for approximately twelve days driving. After his training was over he told me he was not shown allot of things on the list that the trainer was given for him to be taught.
Still he was anxious to get into his own truck and begin making money. He tested out on August 19, 2006.
He finally got his truck and his first load on Tuesday August 22, 2006. He left the yard late and he did not have his map book showing truck stops so he was looking for them more or less in the blind. He stopped at one it was full then he saw another one off the freeway but took a wrong turn. He knew he had to turn around and saw a parking lot he thought would be big enough to turn around in. Once he was in the parking lot he saw all the landscaping everywhere and knew he was in trouble. He ended up taking out a tree and a light pole on his first solo load. May Trucking kept him on but when they found out the amount that the BLM was demanding for the accident they were upset. Within two or three weeks he had a small fender bender. He only bent up another drivers fender but he was terminated on Wednesday September 20, 2006.
For all the details it is on the May Trucking thread my husband began! There was much legal hassle and much more involved.
http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...er=asc&start=0
With less than two months experience and only three weeks solo, having two preventables on his record things did not look good for him. Will at Sage said his career was not over and began to help us look for a new company. We had filled out an application on CAD and Davis Transport had known Will and contacted him for a reference for my husband. They believed that his training was not adequate and were willing to retrain him and give him a second chance. Will also had spoken to people he knew at Central Refrigerator regarding a position for my husband. With two offers my husband went with Davis Transport.
He began his job with Davis Transport on Monday October 16, 2006. Davis Transport stood behind my husband every step of the way through all our troubles and gave him a second chance as a truck driver. They put him in one of their nicest trucks around June of 2006 and always treated us well.
Although my husband was happy with Davis Transport I know that being out 6-8 weeks at a time was beginning to get to him as he missed the children and home. The Davis Transport family grew on CAD as new drivers began with Davis Transport.
On November 28, 2007 we were the last ones to hear that Davis Transport was going all O/O and L/O by January 1, 2008. Being a small company they were hit hard with the slow Lumber industry and for other financial reasons. We were not going to take the leap into being an L/O.
On Monday December 17, 2007 my husband made his final drop for Davis Transport. Tuesday December 18, 2007 he turned in his truck. We wish those at Davis Transport well and sincerely hope that they can overcome their financial difficulties and become a prosperous company again in the future.
The Davis Transport thread!
http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...er=asc&start=0
On December 26, 2007 my husband began orientation with his new company Systems Transport. And so our journey in this industry continues but it begins the new year with a new company and a new routine which should be different from the other two companies.
For those of you who have followed our journey through the good and bad Welcome to the new thread and thank you all for the wonderful support here! :P
Goin Fer It's Wife