Comments By Isaac H.

One of the guys on our account has a shifted load and went through a weigh station and somehow was 6k over on one of his axles. He's now getting his paycheck deducted until the fine gets paid off. D:

I also got a preventable early on a month after going solo. I backed into a pole. Got dragged into safety and thought i was going to get fired. Instead they gave me a couple computercourses and a very stern warning. Guess what. I'm coming up on my firstyear and I'll have 100k accident free miles because i have no other issues since that incident and they felt confident enough in me to put me on a dedicated account.

One thing i use a lot is my instincts. If i feel something is wrong it usually means something is. For example the other night i pulled into a ts at midnight. Totally packed except for one space that was in the dark. Big space really easy to pull up and back in. So i get set up start backing in and for the life of me i couldn't get lined up with the trailers on both sides. Pulled up 3 or4times still couldn't get it to line up.

The whole time I'm trying to back I'm thinking to myself... Man this is strange that a spot this big would be open. Then i start putting all the pieces together and i sense something is wrong. I don't know whatbut i know something is wrong.

I get out with my flashlight and shined it into the space. Lo' and behold the two tractors on either side of the spot was not parked straight but in a 'V'pattern.

Now if iwould have been lazy and didn't goal or just ignored everything and tried to force my way in i would have hit both trucks.

Anyway, if you're still reading i guess what I'm trying to say is it's not the end of the world. Lol.

That must have been unbearable.

*by comments i meant reviews for the companies you're reading. Lol

I would take the comments written by others with a grain of salt.

When i was looking for a company i couldn't find one company with some percentage of positive feedback and quickly realized that most of these comments were written by hacks who couldn't make it through orientation by their own fault and blamed the company with their one sided sob stories.

Get what they want and keep moving forward. It'll be worth it in the end. :)

I drove through such terrible lake effect snow last night through Ohio and Indiana that i seriously thought i was on the planet hoth. And that Luke Skywalker was going to come riding along side me at any time.

When i first started i had a terrible time about getting loaded and unloaded. I would panic and get all worked up. And i would be that guy that went in every hour to check. Lol

I'm much better now. Like everyone said to realize there's not anything you can do about it. The best thing to do is to make sure you have the trip planned so you don't get stuck at the shipper having to take a break there or it affecting your next trip.

I plan on 3-4 hours to load or unload. I never stay at a shipper for less than 2 hours. And if it takes 6-7 hours i try to drag it out to 8 so i can split my break.

Fine fīn/ noun noun: fine; plural noun: fines 1. a sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority.(aka Your carrier in this case)

Believe what you want to believe but you're the one paying a fine.

If almost killing 2 people by squashing their car between a wall and your tractor trailer is a minor accident. ..what is a major one? Dude, you almost killed someone.