Comments By Ezcore

"For other newbies reading this stuff, I want you to realize how important that one piece of advice that we try to always give folks is: Don't Hit Anything!"

And another good one you forgot to mention was,

"Don't let ANYONE force you to do ANYTHING you are not COMFORTABLE with".

If I would have listened to my own gut maybe I would stay have a job/career right now.

I hear what you are saying, but I was not anxious the entire time I was in that truck, it was just during the moments when I asked for help from my LT and he denied any. I could count the number of times I asked him for help on one of my hands.

This guy was a sorry excuse for a LT. No way in hell should I have been given the boot for one accident let alone mirror rubbing. I had people pull up next to me in other trucks and ask me what happened and they could not believe the situation. Hell you guys can hardly believe it yourselves.

He was asleep the entire time because I guess he trusted my driving skills. I have no problem driving that truck, its just when I get into a situation I dont understand I ask my LT, and my LT was no help and offered no way to get out of the horrible situation which left me to just act on the fly without thinking about the situation instead of trying to take control, because i'm in "you are just a student" mode still.

Oh well, with this no competition clause thing I signed until I pay off CRST the full amount and with the safety termination thing both going against me I guess I'm done trucking.

I left a message with CRST just right now before I posted this but I'm not getting my hopes up with that one. Oh well this kind of **** has been happening to me my entire life, was a cool 3 days OTR in the truck at least I can say that.

Yes I am under the contract to pay them back of a total of 7,000 dollars.

As if I'm paying that when they fired me, I was willing to work for 10 months with them.

It really seems like in CRST there is no room for error.

I wish I was leaving stuff out of the story for you fellas but I'm not. "Theres gotta be more to it", there really isn't.

The only parts i'm leaving out of the story were parts I was arguing with my LT or parts of anxiety, and just small parts driving down the road and whats going on in-between the situation.

I just called everyone on TruckingTruths page, and they all said getting terminated for safety issue I will not get hired on for at least 1 year to 5 years.

Looks like my CDL career is indeed killed before it even started. Only option now is to fight it out with CRST safety I guess, and the odds of them giving me a job is as good as calling another company.

I just got out of company sponsored CDL school NADTA and finished my 4 day orientation with CRST.

Very-long long long story short.

I hit some guys driver side mirror with my passenger side mirror not even 10 hours out on the road. Was fired shortly afterwards.

Now I am back at home looking for a company to take me in for training and no one will give it to me because of me getting fired so recently.

My DAC is clean, no citation was issued that day, no CSA points given ect. I would just lie and say, someone let me use there truck to get my CDL, but thats not going to fly. They ask if I had a company sponsor me which I say yes "CRST" did, and then results in asking why did you leave, and then its pretty much over from there. I'm not going to lie either, people always find out in the end.

Any companies out there that would take me or am I pretty much sitting on a useless CDL now? Besides the ones I called, :Melton, Maverick, Schneider, J.B Hunt, Swift, and Prime?

========================================================================================================================= If you want to hear the long-ish version here it is:

I picked up my first load in Des Moines Iowa. We had to go to Charlotte, North Carolina with 39,000 pound load. As soon as I hit the Iowa border there was a detour taking us off the highway into the city streets. (Keep in mind this is my first day driving and my Lead Trainer needs to be sitting next to me for at least 3 days giving tips and guidance where I need it or taking over if need be). So I woke up my LT and told him about the detour he said follow the other truckers and pay attention to your signs and went back to bed. I thought ok simple enough i'll follow the trucks and keep an eye out for any signs. As I drove down the road it quickly turned into city streets and it was jam packed with bumper to bumper traffic and construction going on both sides with caution cones all over the road. I thought ok no big, this is the longest line. I'm already in it i'll just slowly ride it out till we get back on the highway. My LT wasn't having it though, he woke up when he felt the truck not moving and said "What are you doing bruh?", "Get this truck moving follow those other trucks in the left lane.". I told him that no I feel comfortable here and we are moving so there is no issue we will eventually get where we are going. He got angry and smacked his lips and said "Really bruh? Really? Lets go man you wasting time we got places to be." (The load did not have to be in NC till monday and it was Thursday.) (I also failed to mention this LT wanted to go home and on top of that wanted to quit CRST and join another company, the only reason he was at CRST was to finish out the renaming time on his contract so he could go to another company that required him to finish out that contract.) So I felt pressured even more than I was now, and more stressed out. I preceded to move my truck out the right lane and got into the left lane. (It was all history from there). I'll make this long-ish story even shorter at this point.

So I came around this turn and realized I need to be back in the lane I just got out of, after further arguing with my LT and asking him, why did you make me get over if we were almost at the turn dood? He kept saying follow your signs and put the blinker on get back in the right lane. I was stressed out at this point, did not know what to do. I don't know where I'm going and all the other vehicles are blocking road signs. At that point I knew I couldn't just stop in the road. I tried to go around another tractor-trailer and I made sure my tractor could clear the cones and his truck on both sides, but I did not account for my passenger side mirror and his driver side mirror and I whacked it. Long-ish story even shorter, we exchanged insurance information, yet he called the cops anyways which resulted in us waiting in traffic for 4 hours for a police officer to show up. He told us to pull past the exit I was trying to get on by 4 blocks, and I would have to tough it out and find a way to turn back around to get back. (Freaking awesome). The entire time I'm thinking this is all because I did not listen to myself and listened to this idiot who is supposed to be my teacher, all cus he wanted to "save time". Now we just wasted 4 hours. Not to mention the guys mirror I waked, he lied to the cops and said he had to get his truck towed because he was out of service. Soon as the cop left he bent his mirror back in place and took off.

My LT was asleep in the sleeper the entire rest of the trip, did not give me any help when I drove through 5% grades in the West Virginia mountains on E35, E/I 64. Pretty much had to remember what my CDL manual said and things I watched in Ice Road Truckers to climb and descend mountains. At one point when I needed him to help me out badly, he just said "Bruh I can not get any sleep with you asking me questions". Another time when I wanted to re-afirm I had to be in 8th gear for 35 mph he said "Bruh how many times I gotta tell you the same ****", all I can think now is what a lazy sack. This is our lives and I'm trying to take it seriously and he is not.

Soon as I got back home I got a call and I was fired. They consider the mirror bump a critical accident. I feel like they set me up to fail with that LT. I really hate trucking companys now, but unfortunately I need them to get my 1 month student training and 1 year OTR experience.

Hey guys!

So I just finished the High Road Rules and Regulations with 100% in everything and ready to move on to the Safety part, I noticed pre-trip inspection is in there when I glanced at it before I went to bed. I was wondering what are all the abbreviations to learn to make doing the PTI easier so I can write this down in my Notebook and study it every night while i'm in bed bout to go to sleep. I mean every signle abbreviations yall can think of, greatly appreciate the advice thanks guys.

Driving a Kenworth with a Flatbed with loads on the First page is what I want to be doing... However I think for the first year I would be better off learning how to properly drive a Van/Reefer for at least a year before I worry bout securing loads.... Rookie can dream ;)

Hey everyone! Sorry for not updating as consistently as I had hoped. Broke my phone a few weeks back and a new one wasn't in the budget yet.

Quick update is the biggest, I passed my CDL test and I am now a licensed driver and start my OTR training next week. I will update the diary tomorrow night when I am back at home with a computer.

Donnie AZ

Glad you made it dood!

I wish I could have started with Prime, but I stupidly told the recruiter I smoked weed a year ago and he told me that the minimum for that was a total of 3 years.

Oh well, it's hard for me to lie, and guys like me finish last. I would just call again and find a different recruiter but they have my name and information down I believe already.

Anyways hope you are doing good at school and having fun with Prime!

Awesome thanks big time man, you guys are a friendly bunch of this website!

Oh ok, so regardless if we are team trucking, we always have to do this inspection, to make sure we do not endanger ourselves or others going down the road even if my teamate turn to drive he has to do the PTI. I got it now :) .

I'm going to Iowa to there company school. What date are you heading up there? I may see you. I noticed some of the info about there school on here may be out dated. Like they have there own school now. It cost nothing up front. They also provide meals ( Breakfast and lunch monday-friday) as well as a $40.00 meal stipend. I can forward someone the details if the need it for an updated.

Me and my friend are going up there September 15thish, he is expecting a kid soon so we are waiting for him to help give birth to his daughter or son and he wants to spend at least a week with them before he goes... I have a feeling it may be two weeks and it's totally understandable if he decides that so thats why I say September 15ish.

I just hope I don't go all the way up there and fail and be sent back home with my pride shattered and 500 dollars less in my pocket. This is something I really want to do so failing is not an option for me. I only owned one car in my life it was a 1995 Mustang Cobra, the only thing I knew how to do on that car was check the oil, and tire pressure. Everything else a mechanic did for me so it seems that being a trucker you have to be a mini mechanic yourself, and thats where the steap learning curve will hit me is with the PIT test, Form A,B,C. I think I can handle the driving part, thats the part im most excited a bout. (Learning that 10 speed xD)