Profile For Jason D.

Got a call from the company today and they want me to come down to the yard to as they put it ''sign some release forms'' took me about 45 minutes to explain to them that I'm some 1600 miles away from the yard now. spoke with several representatives that insisted if I spent less time arguing with them over how long it'd take I could have already been down there by now.

I'm getting a little more concerned that they think I'd spend that much time or money to just sign a few papers that quite possibly won't be any sort of medical release. after all that they decided that faxing it to me was okay. the papers just had to do with where my paychecks were getting sent. not sure why I would have had to go 1600 miles for that but whatever

and yes Tracey I've been keeping track of who I talk to, when I talk to them, what I talk to them about, what issues were resolved, what issues came up, phone numbers, emails, pretty much anything short of a full fledged background check.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this before and maybe everybody here can put in their two sense on it, but when the original injury happened, it was classified as a ''work'' injury, after awhile it got changed in my companies system so that it would become a ''personal'' injury. is that legal, standard practice, or just something that my company does?

thanks again for everybody's help, everybody is quite nice and informative here

Thanks Brett, all sounds like great ideas!

thank you also for a great website, it was here that helped me figure out which companies to consider, awesome job on an awesome website!

so about two and a half months ago, I was getting out of my truck and rolled my ankle, moments after I blacked out from lack of food as well as an overwhelming amount of pain. I decided to do the right thing and tell my company that I had suffered an injury. they got me to see a doctor at the local hospital and everything checked out alright. few days later they got me back to their home terminal yard to see some of their own doctors.

for the next month or so they have been sending me to all sorts of doctors to get all sorts of different texts, roughly saw been 80 and 90 different doctors during that time. pretty much every single one of them either referred me to another doctor for an evaluation or to another doctor to get some sort of test, whether it was an mri, ct, eeg, ekg whatever it all was.

after all that the company I'm with changed my status with them from being on a work injury hold to a personal injury hold and had me sit around a hotel near their terminal for another week or so. they were nice to enough to put me up in a hotel on their dime while I was staying until my status was changed. after a few days of paying for the hotel myself I wasn't going to be able to afford to stay there any longer.

since I'm new to this company they would allow you to go home between training phases, since I had not gone home yet to this point I asked if I could now go home for a few days while this gets figured out.

so I've been home for about three weeks now, continuously calling doctors and company representatives nearly every day trying to figure out what's going. I've called hundreds of times, very rarely ever getting through to somebody, almost always have gone to voicemail, I'd leave messages but never get any calls returned from them. so its getting to the point where I've had no substantial evidence that I shouldn't be driving and nobody will tell me exactly why I'm not driving

so I guess my question is, should I just continue to wait or try looking for another company to drive for or what? any input is appreciated