Wow, what has the trucking industry become when you can get firted so easily from a job? I am in shock that I just got fired from a job that I really liked for being 3 hours late getting back to the yard! Lets begin with my week, Mon, Tues, ran local 3 loads per day, thats a lot of loads of golf carts. Load up Tuesday night for Wednesday to leave at 7:30 am. Get in on time cant leave because I have to wait for parts to give to another driver on my route. Finally get to leave at 9:15 am, get called 5 minutes later to stop they have to add one more thing, so I stop and now its 10 am before I leave. Now running 2 1/2 hours late because of waiting for Tom (Driver Boss) to get off his ass and get his crap together. Leave Sarasota to deliver in The Villages about 2 hours away, get there cant find the address on GPS, call client she does not know area because she just moved there. After an hour of trying to find her I had her meet me at a wall mart and O followed her back to her house for delivery. Held up again when I could not get out from her address due to new construction and workers parked on corner so Icould not make turn, had to trakc down drivers to move cars etc., more wasted time. Finally get out and off we go to Albany Ga. They close at 5 pm I wont get there until 7:30, so I call dispatch and they freak out like its my fault I'm running late. They do nothing so I call delivery and beg them to have someone wait for me and they called me back and said they would. Great ! I make delivery and call office to let them know, they dont respond but say ok on text. Make delivery, now its 8 pm and next delivery was in Augusta GA by 7:30 to meet another driver to take parts and carts to Nascar vent in Charlotte NC. Get up 3:30 am leave at 4 am make it and no driver there. So I call him wake him up and meet him at my next stop. Long story short I get him loaded and off by 9:30am. Now I have to load my trailer and I do and leave around 10:30 11 am. Heading back to Sarasota (Thursday am). Dispatch does not call me all day, does not tell me I have any runs for Friday so I asume there is nothing for me on Friday but to get back and unload. I stop around 8 pm, puy in another 16 hour day, went to sleep.

The next morning I overslept and got up around 8 am. head out and dispatch wants to know where I am, I texted and told them I was in Wildwood and would be back and unloaded by noon. They text me back that they had 2 loads for me on Friday, this they tell me at 9 am on Friday! I get back to yard unload my trailer and go inside to ask where I was going. I said am I going out? dispatch says no. Thats it, he said nothing else to me so I went in to break room to do paperwork. Thast when Tom came in and fired me! I was like whaaaaaaatt??? The reason he gave me was becasue I left at 10:30 am and its only 8 hours away and I took 24 hours! I was like but I was taking my break, and I was on duty for 16 hours! WTF? Then he said it was because I did not turn in my paperwork correctly. They wanted me to fill out mileage for each state on my trip sheet, which I idi before leaving on this last trip. I was like really? Paperwork issues? Oh, then it was because I forgot to get tires done on my tractor a feew weeks ago before I left, like I am a mind reader when dispatch said nothing to me about that, so I got them done, for cheaper then they had a quote for, so whats the big deal?

Personally I think that Tom, the dickhead in charge of drivers, had it in for me for weeks and did not like me for what ever reasons. When I told another driver I got fired he was shocked and said, why???? You have been the best driver we have hired in a long time. I;m so fricken pissed! What a bunch of jerks!issedoff: I did nothing wrong and did not deserve to get fired for being late when I was never told I had a run for Friday, any other time I had a friday run I was told the day before, dispatch dropped the ball on that one.:banghead:

Anyway, looking for another job......again! Really sucks because I really liked the last one. Oh well, I just hope I can find one that lets me drive the speed limit!:cry:

 

Don't mean to be an *******, but could you not have called dispatch to see if they had anything lined up for you on friday? Just curious, we got a guy who does the same thing he waits for dispatch to call him instead of taking the bull by the horns and calling them looking for loads.. The one who asks for loads first is going to get a reputation of wanting to work and there-for will most likely be the first one picked to pull the good loads, just saying I grossed $2450 last week because I pulled every load asked of me plus extras that I asked for, my week ended out at a little over 60 hours and I was home in my bed every night... Then there are other weeks when I only gross $800 to $900 for the same hours or less however I don't bitch or moan about it, as the way I look at it is that it is $900 more then I had at the start of the week.. Work is work.. In this economy a person should be happy they have a job... You say you were a CEO of two corps at one point in your life, let me ask you this question, how did you deal with the type of guys who were always bitching and moaning about the job and the pay and the bosses?? I know when I was an Executive Chef any employee of mine who was not happy with the job, the pay, the responsibilities, or having me for a boss was free to leave and if they choose not to leave and continued to bitch I helped them out the back door with a little nudge.. No company wants to hear of employees who are constantly bitching it gets old after a while. You say you have had over 7 jobs this last year as you choose to leave at the first sight of something afoul, or in this case it seems you spoke your opinion about an incident or two and may have rubbbed a few people the wrong way thus making them look for the first excuse to send you packing. Florida being a right to work state makes it easy to fire someone without cause and a guy who talks out load about his disatisfaction on certain situations puts a big target on his back, not a good idea in this economy when there are 20 more drivers willing to do your job just waiting for a phone call...
As I said i don't mean to be an ass and there are those on this board that will say i am. I just saying maybe you need to dig inside your soul and figure out what battles you really want to fight, if you find a decent job with decent pay, it may behove you to keep your thoughts to yourself from time to time..

Good Luck with the job search...

Timberwolf

 

7 jobs in one year????? WOW.....

 

I read all that and from what I could tell of you from it I wouldn't hire you. To me it sounds like you blame someone else for all your problems instead of yourself.

 

yea as usual theres people that go to judging people...got ten commandments, anyone?

 

I don't know you well yet, Instigator. I read a few of your posts in the women's forum. But, I think I'm WITH you on this one!

Contrary to what some believe, there are some real idiots out there in dispatch/resource management. Believe me... I could run FedEx better on LINE 5 then they are doing right now.

I pride myself (as I believe you do) on "personal responsibility," but I don't always see the same from the "useful idiots" who control so much of our lives, careers, and paychecks!

Trucking works best when decisions are made BY truckers! There is not ONE of us on this board who doesn't try their best to accomplish the tasks given them everyday.

Until or unless I find reason to believe otherwise about you, I am prone to take you at your word, and enjoy your posts.

I offer a belated "Welcome" to the board from one who likes to see intelligent new members.

I hope you find a good gig soon. Trucking is definitely an "individual" thing. If it don't FIT... you must acquit! I plan to do this the rest of my working life. There is NO WAY that I will do something I don't like to do... or work for schmucks... until I retire. What would be the point?

As my Dad keeps reminding me.... I have a "meal ticket" in my wallet. Don't do anything to screw that up. But never forget WHO is in the driver's seat!

 

I'm sorry all I read was firted....... .

Good luck job hunting, you'll find a good fit eventually.

 

Well i quess if I believed in that little imaginary man in the sky then I may be in trouble, however since "organized Religion" is man's way to seperate humanity then I think I fall in line with the norm. I will stand my statement that it is a wise man who picks and chooses which arguements are worth the battles. Instigator has said in other post that he himself will leave a job at the first sight of any issue with pay or deception thus resulting in him having over 7 jobs this year alone in my book that is a little overboard, as our world is filled with deception, so one must learn to adapt and work with it to fit his/hers needs which happens to be one of the basic core values of humanity "the need to survive" and the willingness to make it happen at any cost. Such is life..

Timberwolf

 

In this economy I can't say I blame him for jumping ship at the first sign on trouble. Got to look out for Numero Uno which it appears he is doing because the companies sure aren't looking out for you. They are always looking out for themselves. Good luck with the search Instigator.

 

I wasn't the one saying you were judgemental, Timberwolf. You had an opinion and expressed it. You made some good points. As a "career move," job hopping is not a good idea. And in this economy, one should think real hard before quitting on a paycheck. But, no driver should have to put up with a bunch of chit from employers.

As I said, trucking is a very "individual" thing. Some might LIKE to keep experiencing new things... others might like security. Point is, having a CDL gives you many options in life. And ONE of them is saying FU to companies that take advantage of you or treat you like dirt.

Just "judging" by his account of this one situation, I believe Instigator was right to feel he had been wronged. He even said that he liked the job and would have stayed with it for a good while, I'm sure. Some people (like me,) are prone to suffer abuses longer than others. Others have a more gypsy attitude that allows them to move on whenever a foul wind blows.