Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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I am starting to believe he just wanted to take his dog with him for free boarding.
but you will need to find a boarding facility for 2 weeks after Driver Solutions because Pam Transport requires you to team-drive for 2 weeks with a Pam Transport trainer.So after all that arguing with us . we were correct and you are not permitted to take the dog onto an OTR training truck.
Thank you for clarifying that for us
While that's a nice thought it's not accurate. You don't have a PHD in anything. That is a complete lie. Someone with a Doctorette's isn't as ignorant as you are expressing yourself to be here. You get what you give in life, follow the golden rule and do unto others as you would do unto them. Get harsh and condescending with people, and they'll nip you right back.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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Well stated. I will be very interested in the outcome of this particular situation.
For all future readers....
What you need to take away from this thread is that trucking is unlike most jobs. A typo in an email never kills anyone but a dog jumping in the air or barking and distracting the driver absolutely can. Companies CANNOT be forced to put public safety ahead of personal safety as it is not "reasonable" to accommodate that. I knew a trainer who had to remove their fish tank from the truck because it distracted the student.
As truckers we are held to a higher standard for safety and that is evident by blowing a .04 as a DUI instead of the national .08 for cars and "normal" drivers. Any alcohol in the system puts you out of service. Everything about our job involves safety. We get inspected, have our hours limited and must provide documents and drug tests upon request. Our disabilities CAN limit our opportunities, our medications CAN cause us to be rejected by companies, and our medical and mental history as well as work history IS required and NOT protected by HIPAA (Health Information Portability & Accountability Act). If you refuse to supply information, you will be rejected. If you lie and omit information you can be rejected, and even blacklisted as no company will trust you.
It is contradictory to state "I am not asking for special treatment, I only want to use their normal pet policy"....."but I need my dog at orientation and throughout training, during which I do not want to be OTR". None of that is normal in trucking. It is also selfish and inconsiderate to want your needs met without caring about the needs of others. Such as the trainer, room mate or company.
We went through this whole conversation about depression and suicidal tendencies for nothing. It is quite possible he will get rejected for lack of work history. However, the suicidal tendencies alone would be enough to prevent him from getting a CDL.... Which is a PRIVILEGE not a right.
BTW.... I have degrees in Political Science/History and Human & Social Services. And i tend to get information from experienced truckers and company management over someone who hasn't even been to an orientation yet or held a key of a truck in their hands.
Oh? How is Keasys comment well stated? You must not have read my bio here. My dog is TRAINED by professionals on the Hangin' Tree Ranch, and also by me who has worked with dogs most of my work history. You listen to a woman who says negative things like "if he has proper work history" to criticize me, and boasts about herself to make her seem more than what she is? If you've taken the psychology courses I have coinciding with your claims, then why haven't you critisized Kearsy on the psychological factors she's exhibiting, but choose to target me when I argue legal points I know better on than rumoring truckers? You know what's funny, if I actually spoke to my recruiter today on some of what you guys are saying, and he basically stated you guys a rumor-mongerers who don't know what your talking about. According to my recruiter my DoT is what Pam Transport and Driver Solutions uses for my employment, nothing else, no company doctor's, etc. And I was truthful on it. Stop making false implications and heresy.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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Exactly. Quite a few contradictions in his posts.
So, how do you survive for at least two weeks without your ESA?
I have not contradicted myself anywhere. Perhaps your small trucking minds cannot comprehend intellectual dialect? At no point have I contradicted myself anywhere. What I'm see is a bunch of small minded pecemistic uneducated individuals who impossibly made it as moderators spamming a good thread for prospective truckers that are going to encounter this problem going into trucking, to the point I'm now going to have to start a whole new thread to clean out your spamming and irrelevant posts to the topic so future newcomers can actually get helpful advice instead of seeing nasty and irrelevent comments from people who are supposed to be moderators.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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but you will need to find a boarding facility for 2 weeks after Driver Solutions because Pam Transport requires you to team-drive for 2 weeks with a Pam Transport trainer.So after all that arguing with us . we were correct and you are not permitted to take the dog onto an OTR training truck.
Thank you for clarifying that for us
No, I am allowed to under the law, I was making that post for prospective truckers with pets if you'd pay attention and stop spamming the thread with posts irelivent to the topic.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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So, how do you survive for at least two weeks without your ESA?
If it came to me having to board him for two weeks I'll have to hope the Joliet PetSmart Hotel is back open or use a non-local PetSmart hotel. They allow pet owners to video chat with their pet whenever you need to.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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I found out yesterday that anyone going with Pam Transport who has a pet, has the option to pay about $500 to Driver Solutions for a single-occupency room in the pet-friendly hotel (no pet fees for your pet to stay in lodging).
So you can bring your pets with for Pam Transport training through Driver Solutions, but you will need to find a boarding facility for 2 weeks after Driver Solutions because Pam Transport requires you to team-drive for 2 weeks with a Pam Transport trainer.
This is the best solution I've found that truckers can use who have pets! If anyone finds a better deal, feel free to share to help future pet owners going into trucking; thank you, and I take my leave now.
P.S. I will be doing a diary of my training in the diary section you can follow up on too. Thanks, and everyone have a great week!
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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Well...
Looks like this one has gone off the rails.
We're 5 pages deep here - in experienced drivers giving you the 411.
Yes, I get that you have/require a service animal for whatever condition you say you have.
YOU don't seem to get that 99.9% of NEW TRAINEE POSITIONS are going to require you to be out for a period of time, IN SOMEONE ELSE'S TRUCK. And that, rather than attempt to accomodate YOUR NEEDS, they are simply going to TAKE A PASS. This is not about you "elbowing your way in", waving ADA laws in their face. No one OWES YOU (and your dog) a seat in THEIR TRUCK.
As sympathetic as we may be to your plight - (as least) I am getting the sense that this might not be the industry for you. Not even because YOUR ATTITUDE HAS SHIFTED to passive/aggressive towards people that are only trying to HELP YOU. But because, in our experience, the NECESSITY OF PROVIDING AN ACCOMMODATION FOR YOUR SERVICE ANIMAL IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH HOW COMPANIES TRAIN NEW ENTRANTS.
So - let's just AGREE TO DISAGREE. And you come back (3 or 4 name changes later), when you have COMPLETED TRAINING AND ARE SOLO - and share with us your experience - SO WE CAN HELP OTHERS in a similar situation.
Rick
Will do.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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I appreciate you being open and honest, albeit a bit gruff in the mornings, but I respect someone who can speak their mind.
As for working in legal or paralegal field it's really not my cup of tea. I got that education as a supliment to apply to a business that I'd be interested in working for. In other words that education combined with my business courses is an asset I seek to apply to a corporate business. To coincide with Rob's question, I love driving. While I enjoy being punctual and having good communication during work, I love driving. It's as simple as that. And it's much higher pay than working as a paralegal at the courthouse. I've never had any problem getting a job anywhere with my work history and educational background, and I don't intend to start now. While I don't have a degree, my education is something most employers would jump head over heals for. My communication courses, my business courses, and my legal courses are all universal courses that can be applied anywhere to any job. If I didn't want to do trucking, I wouldn't be doing it.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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When a social media presence could hurt a driver or carrier
I recall reading elsewhere about many drivers being fired over comments they made about how they would handle protesters blocking their way on the interstate and that they'd do it with a smile. A police chief in NW Iowa surprisingly kept his job after posting on the largest local news Facebook page to speed up, nothing but some speed bumps in regards to blocked roads. When you're the cause of a lawsuit in trucking everything about your past whether its tickets, failed inspections, lying on your DOT physical or breaking company policy, or social media posts will be used to portray you to be a danger on the roadway that should've been taken off long ago. I'm sure if I'm ever involved in litigation they'll pull up my post here on my RR crossing violation and try to use it against me.
The way my company handles it is that if we mention where we work online we then represent them and must do so accordingly. I've mentioned my employers name here so if I started being real insensitive or inappropriate it could lead to repercussions with my employer. There are some members here who wish to keep their employer private for this very reason.
Last year there was a college kid that had a sign at a college football game asking for money to buy a case of bud light. He ended up raising over a million dollars he donated to the University of Iowa's Children's Hospital. Posts that he made several years prior regarding a racial Dave Chappelle skit were uncovered and this guys name was dragged through the mud by a reporter trying to make a name for themselves.
That is so true! I did see that on the news a few months ago. The trucker I saw was driving his route down the interstate which was being illegslly blocked by hundreds of BLM protesters. The driver could have ran them over if he wanted to (and I'm sure most people would want to), but he didn't. He eased on cautiously and they intentionally stood in his way, then broke into his truck on the highway.
Sure he should have called dispatch and backtracked, but I'm sure the company would have taken it out of his pay too. I don't see that that trucker broke any laws in what he did, AND he was hijacked. Now he has no job.
But people have personal lives, and they have the moral and constitutional right to share there personal lives on social media without having to be fired or fear of being fired. I'm not even going to get into the legal scale of things on this matter, because it's plain common sense. Now if someone defamed their company with a disreputable act where it wasn't illegal, then that's a different story.
Also sometimes things that are "controversial" and publicised by a worker has repurcusdions, even if what was publicised is true. I could make all the CSA posts in the world and express my values, views, and the morality of it, and the true history of it, and people who have differing views can punish me for it. That doesn't mean to stop standing for you believe is right and moral, it just means move on and find a better employer, not be so scared you can't express your politics online.
That's all I'm saying. America is on the fringe of censoring to the point the general public can't openly communicate, be honest, and can't express themselves in a peaceful manner without being fired or rebuked.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago
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Get a straight answer regarding what specifically Sir? I've answered and replied to your guys' spamming and off-topic posts. What do you want to know? What are you referencing?