Can't Seem To Get Hired Anywhere

This brings up a good point. I leave my truck at the TA by my home. I bobtail. When I went to NC for vaca... I parked it at my hotel. Each time I told my dispatch where it was parked.

My next hometime I was going to park it by the kmart 1/2 mile from home with kmart permission sorta hidden in the back. My trainer parked his at a grocery store.

The OP did not make it sound as if he "quit and left it." although a high traffic and high crime area does not sound good.

So my question to OP... what were you told as far as taking it home?

Since the OP isn't responding anyways...

When I go home I always park it behind the businesses right next to my apartment. The businesses don't mind, and it's not that much different from staying in the truck since I usually go check on it every once in a while--lol, the truck doesn't belong to me but I like to keep it close by and baby it like it is mine. I've never told my DM exactly where I park it though--seemed kinda weird considering they can "ping" the exact location via gps whenever they want to. (Plus I think I'm technically supposed to park it at a truck stop, and I don't want to open a can of worms if I don't have to.)

Kevin's story:

I've been a driver since 1991(cdl) and have never had a ticket for anything including an accident. Prime fired me for parking my truck at the greyhound station.

If he's been driving since 1991 he would know about abandoning trucks. He would also know about parking at bus stations.

Maybe certain experienced parties on TT may have missed the 25 year experience part and then missed the actual issue.

Still, there's things missing from the complete story.

Timeline and tons of stuff missing - the story is actually all over the map.

And we've seen enough folks that are first posters here - that have some weird story about not being able to get a hire, and usually leave out something HUGE that was entirely their doing.

This one reads like a who-dunnit. CDL since '91 - check. Trained at Prime - in 91? Solo 3 months at Prime, and gets cut loose for "parking rig at greydog station", 5 YEARS AGO. Hasn't been able to get driving work in 5 years because of it? The timeline here just isn't working out.

So he got cut loose in 2011 - or thereabouts. What's he been doing for a living for the last 5 years?

We tend to jump through flaming hoops here, to help guide folks into (or back into) the drivers seat. But you gotta give a few more details.

I'm all for giving someone the "benefit of the doubt" - but the OP left a lot of doubt on the table - so we have to start guessing as to what actually happened.

So - when someone says "fired for parking truck at gh" - first thing that comes to mind is: abandoned equipment.

When my phone so rudely made my last post, before I was finished - I was going to suggest he go to HireRight and get his DAC - since his MVR is supposedly clean. This would at least show the reason for termination. Or maybe a call to Prime HR, to see what they have down for his termination.

No doubt the firing from Prime, is preventing his being hired anywhere - but he really needs to see the REASON WHY he was terminated, or at least why Prime SAYS they terminated him.

I still suspect this went down as abandoned equipment, as he was either TOWED from the GH station, or Prime sent someone to recover the truck.

Under "semi-normal circumstances" - if you parked your truck for hometime - somewhere where the property owner didn't want the truck - THEY would call the carrier - and the DM would call the driver to move the truck. If the GH station was being prickly and just had the truck TOWED - then likely Prime would fire the driver and put it down as abandoned - since they would have to pay the tow bill and send someone to recover the equipment.

So I have $10 on "abandoned equipment" - even if he didn't just park it and walk away (quit) and this was actually an error in judgement.

I've been on this board for almost 7 years (a conflict with another user made me drop off, then rejoin - so my join date only shows 4), seen em come and go, seen every kind of bizarre story you could see.

And as far as "details go" - this story is sorely lacking in enough details to actually give any valid advice, other than to pull a DAC and go from there.

To the OP (Kevin J) - wasn't trying to be insulting here. Since you didn't give enough details to offer any real suggestions - kinda left us guessing here.

Give us a little more details (and DO ORDER A DAC), and we might be able to offer some better guidance...

Rick

Completely agree with Rick on this one. I was just returning to this thread to answer Errol's post, but Rick already covered it.

There's way too much missing information here, and posts like that almost always have a reason they were put the way they are. The way the numbers and dates were strung together don't make any sense at all. This mysterious fact that a person who claims they have been a professional driver for 25 years and yet cannot understand why they can't get a job with a clean MVR is also so odd that it cannot be ignored as a clue that there is way more going on here than the OP wanted to let on to us.

Once again, unfortunately the person with the question disappears in the shadows... only to leave us with more questions, and unable to provide some good solid advice. It's a common scenario around here - we'd like to help this person get a job, and most of the time we find they don't want to face up to the facts and do what is necessary to get that job. After all they have been toying around with this issue for FIVE YEARS!

I can come up with an explanation for the 1991 bit. I know a lot of military personnel who claim cdl for their military jobserved then are shocked to fins they have to go through training and get cdl. They truly think they can transfer the military license to personal one

I can come up with an explanation for the 1991 bit. I know a lot of military personnel who claim cdl for their military jobserved then are shocked to fins they have to go through training and get cdl. They truly think they can transfer the military license to personal one

I think they recently made a new regulation to cover this. If I remember correctly vets that operated trucks in the military can come back home and all they have to do is take the test. I don't think they are required to go through school and all of that. Now as to whether the insurance companies have caught up and will let them get hired without the schooling I haven't heard yet.

28 hours and counting

You guys could be right, but it's only been 8 hours, give him a chance.

This topic was started by OP's one and only comment. These people have returned on occasion, but mostly it's a drive-by one-off.

28 hours and counting

You guys could be right, but it's only been 8 hours, give him a chance.

Well, like I said, you may be right. But there are actually people out there who don't spent their lives on the internet. I think 8 or 28 hours is too soon to assume that they are never returning.

2 years driving experience OTR is needed for insurance companies to cover a driver at a non-training company. If he doesn't have this in the last 5 years, he's a newbie whether he likes it or not! His best bet is to sign onto a learner company for 6 months and then look for work! My opinion.

Keith's first post:

2 years driving experience OTR is needed for insurance companies to cover a driver at a non-training company. If he doesn't have this in the last 5 years, he's a newbie whether he likes it or not! His best bet is to sign onto a learner company for 6 months and then look for work! My opinion.

Welcome Keith. Interesting first post.

Your statement is totally untrue. Where did you come up with this? I know of two examples just off the top of my head, of drivers with one year of total experience going to work for "non-training" companies. I used to work with both of these drivers and they continue to be friends of mine. The two companies they hired on with required a minimum of 1 year of OTR experience, not two.

Your advice although well intended is not at all true.