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So highspeeds (is that "handle" from your failed Racing Career?), at what Academy of Lower Learning did you successfully complete "Sensitivity Training"?:2437:
How many Semesters were required or were you able to complete coursework at home online?
Were you required to be "properly dressed and groomed" (under your preferences) or was it a "Free For All" (like the Flower Children) since the prerequisite is "To Offend No-One therein allowing Every-One To Be Themselves"?:stirthepot:
Such does not appear, as yet, to work in Trucking, but maybe in the Garment Business.:wee:
CHEERS!!
 
highspeeds said:
Those are lies you tell yourself to make you feel better than others. A book is not judged by it's cover.

Applause for 2 million. It'll take me another five to ten years or more. To reach one million. I ran some line haul. But now. All I do is drive around the block here in the city.
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Some Books actually have been "judged by their cover" as in MAD, CAR-TUNES, CRACKED, PLAYBOY, HUSTLER, F.M.C.S.R., and MANY other Tomes too.

Sorry but you'll NEVER reach the sought after mile-stone if all you do is
drive around the block here in the city
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. Might wanna choose a bigger BLOCK and lose the CHAIN, it's dragging you down.
 
Cerberus_Kelpie said:
So highspeeds (is that "handle" from your failed Racing Career?), at what Academy of Lower Learning did you successfully complete "Sensitivity Training"?:2437:
How many Semesters were required or were you able to complete coursework at home online?
Were you required to be "properly dressed and groomed" (under your preferences) or was it a "Free For All" (like the Flower Children) since the prerequisite is "To Offend No-One therein allowing Every-One To Be Themselves"?:stirthepot:
Such does not appear, as yet, to work in Trucking, but maybe in the Garment Business.:wee:
CHEERS!!
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They gave me this nickname because it is a nod to my behaviors holding the forklift wheel. I am Dale Earnhardt on the dock. Rubbing is racing. And I will sure as ::shit:: run into you if you don't get the hell out of my way. And it wouldn't be uncommon while out there running to Indianapolis to be " restrictor plate " racing and doing 30 mile " passes ". But, we are older now. And we don't run line haul or work the dock. So....

We had a hour and a half video this year. And it was accompanied by HR explaining it segment by segment. With interactive quizzes following each completed segment. After hearing all this nonsense. It makes complete and total sense to me why young people are running around shooting the ::shit:: out of everybody. It actually bothers me now that it doesn't happen more often.

It's obviously not a course. Clearly it is a lecture. Yearly installments. And no homework. They pay me to sit through their hub bub. And they can tell me whatever they want for as long as they want. So long as I am on the clock.

I attended in my assigned uniform. Looking like a truck driver. However, if given the opportunity. I would have showed up in the nude. As God put me on this earth. In my most natural and purest state of being.
 
Cerberus_Kelpie said:
Some Books actually have been "judged by their cover" as in MAD, CAR-TUNES, CRACKED, PLAYBOY, HUSTLER, F.M.C.S.R., and MANY other Tomes too.

Sorry but you'll NEVER reach the sought after mile-stone if all you do is . Might wanna choose a bigger BLOCK and lose the CHAIN, it's dragging you down.
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I have seen several of those listed periodicals. And have been surprised to find something interesting in each. Regardless of the current cover or if the cover was missing and gone all together.

Sorry, but I chose to roll around in the city. My pee pee isn't big enough for tough guy trucking. I put my hours in and go running home to fix dinner and get a good night rest.
 
zeroday said:
My very first dispatcher told me: "I'm not paying you to drive that truck I'm paying you to back it up"...
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These dispatchers now don't know anything but how to stare at a computer screen. Send you your pick ups in order of what pays best. Bottom line above all.
 
pro1driver said:
over 2 million safe miles. would have been more, but i ran mostly local and dedicated and regional, only did long haul my first year..


appearance means a lot, it speaks volumes of a person, a persons character and a persons dedication.

satisfied?
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Bill Zollars must've looked pretty good to you.
And all the other CEO'S and bankers and legislators who ran the industry into a low budget job.

I say........they get what they pay for.
Make me rich first and maybe I'll change....that seems to be the code of the leaders.....should we not follow them?

We see dock workers at customers....not investors or CEO'S. And dock workers are like us.......we're not looking for a seat at the Country Club.

You want your freight?
Then I'm the guy to deliver it.....IF....the short haired clean cut guys who went to college set the run up right......Its a dirty sweaty backbreaking job.....and if I look like a golfer....Im probably not doing much work.
 
Cerberus_Kelpie said:
Some Books actually have been "judged by their cover" as in MAD, CAR-TUNES, CRACKED, PLAYBOY, HUSTLER, F.M.C.S.R., and MANY other Tomes too.

Sorry but you'll NEVER reach the sought after mile-stone if all you do is . Might wanna choose a bigger BLOCK and lose the CHAIN, it's dragging you down.
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He might get there we works at Con-way/XPO and they do some funny math when it comes to figuring out million miles. At XPO you don't have to really drive those million to become one.
 
As long as there are guys out there sleeping in trucks and staying away from home for 5 days straight at a time......and not getting paid over $200,000/year to do it.
This business has no right telling anybody what to look like or how to drive or how to act or how clean a truck should be.....and if they don't like it.....they can spend their own lives in the damned trucks.
 
slavenomore said:
Bill Zollars must've looked pretty good to you.
And all the other CEO'S and bankers and legislators who ran the industry into a low budget job.

I say........they get what they pay for.
Make me rich first and maybe I'll change....that seems to be the code of the leaders.....should we not follow them?

We see dock workers at customers....not investors or CEO'S. And dock workers are like us.......we're not looking for a seat at the Country Club.

You want your freight?
Then I'm the guy to deliver it.....IF....the short haired clean cut guys who went to college set the run up right......Its a dirty sweaty backbreaking job.....and if I look like a golfer....Im probably not doing much work.
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i don't know who Zollars is?

it's MY opinion on how everyone should look in the work force. if no one likes my opinion then put me on ignore.

i read and accept MANY things that MANY others here spew out of thier pie holes, so in turn, what i say (either as my opinion, or the way i ran things in MY shop) should be accepted as easily as well.

i think it's called something like, "mutual respect for one's thought's, opinions and how he/she did things in THIER office, garage, shop, etc".

if NO ONE can show ME respect for MY opinions, thoughts, and the way I RAN THINGS, in MY SHOP, then bug off, and DO NOT RESPOND ANYMORE.
 
pro1driver said:
i don't know who Zollars is?

it's MY opinion on how everyone should look in the work force. if no one likes my opinion then put me on ignore.

i read and accept MANY things that MANY others here spew out of thier pie holes, so in turn, what i say (either as my opinion, or the way i ran things in MY shop) should be accepted as easily as well.

i think it's called something like, "mutual respect for one's thought's, opinions and how he/she did things in THIER office, garage, shop, etc".

if NO ONE can show ME respect for MY opinions, thoughts, and the way I RAN THINGS, in MY SHOP, then bug off, and DO NOT RESPOND ANYMORE.
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I don't put people on ignore. An opinion is given and I give mine. Or I give opinion and others respond. This board is a good way to know how people think. Not face to face where bad things might happen. It is kinda called conversing....with no danger involved.
I appreciate your mechanics knowledge.
But when hiring, this is America.
And you deal with Americans. Equals. Not underlings.
Imo....it is YOUR SHOP....when you or your family do ALL of the labor....then you treat people however you want. The laws may allow you more than that but I am in disagreement on alot of those types of laws.
I had a good shot at getting on at UPS Parcel a few years back......best money in the business....cut my hair, shaved my beard, had some boss bossing me on how to pretrip in an overly complicated way, then telling become booksmart ways to drive....Telling me what lanes to be in on roads I've driven for close to 30 years......4 days of that and I told him find somebody else. Even they don't pay enough to boss me around like that.
Therefore none do imo.
Trucking doesn't pay near enough for the time we put in and what we are expected to do.
There may be 50 trucks at a terminal...but an owner can't drive enough of them in a day to profit. It takes 50 guys plus the owner to do that....therefore We get a say too.
The idea that so who's the owner is the only guy that takes a risk and should set the pay...is a pretty dumb idea.
I spent 3 full 12 hour days/week delivering to lots of hardware stores in NYC for 5 years...delivered cement tanks there for another 4 or so......more than most owners would or could ever do.
 
slavenomore said:
I had a good shot at getting on at UPS Parcel a few years back......best money in the business....cut my hair, shaved my beard
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That goes to Pro's opinion on appearance and looking professional, it's the company's game and you played to it to get the job by getting a haircut and a shave, your reasons for not staying had nothing to do with appearance, and as far as being hard dirty work....yes it is, but you also don't have to be a rocket scientist to tell the difference between a guy who's dirty because he's been busting his butt all day and some guy who goes through life as a slop stinking and wearing stains of what he's eaten for the last week, just look at the slobs you see at truck stops and you'll see them and there's far too many of them, truck stops with showers and laundries by the way, I would only be out 2 days, but I always packed clean clothes for at least 3 days with extra shirts and never left a washroom looking disheveled, to me professional appearance is big especially if you want to be considered a professional.
 
kboomarang said:
That goes to Pro's opinion on appearance and looking professional, it's the company's game and you played to it to get the job by getting a haircut and a shave, your reasons for not staying had nothing to do with appearance, and as far as being hard dirty work....yes it is, but you also don't have to be a rocket scientist to tell the difference between a guy who's dirty because he's been busting his butt all day and some guy who goes through life as a slop stinking and wearing stains of what he's eaten for the last week, just look at the slobs you see at truck stops and you'll see them and there's far too many of them, truck stops with showers and laundries by the way, I would only be out 2 days, but I always packed clean clothes for at least 3 days with extra shirts and never left a washroom looking disheveled, to me professional appearance is big especially if you want to be considered a professional.
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I understand what you say. And that is fine.
To me professionals get paid money.
Amateurs get rewards such as gold medals or blue ribbons .employee of the month prizes..no pay. A's, B's, C's,D's, F's.
I've worked for companies who thought they were great.
Bosses and CEO'S way overpaid for their worth.
Drivers and dock workers who think they're the greatest and putting others down.....only for them to roll trailers or get hurt hurrying like morons...coating the company more money in one instant than all of the profits they made the company until that incident.
I'm here for the money. So is the company.
I try to be on time for my shift, get done what I can. I don't want to hurt anybody nor do I want to wreck freight because that makes more work. I know the job and I'm not into staying any longer than needed, so I must move to get done early enough not to be dead tired. Eight hours is rare. So I try and keep moving.
If the company wants clean clothes or a "professional appearance". Than they should provide uniforms and clean them.
If they want spotless trucks then maybe they should take care of that too...I spend enough time in it..
 
kboomarang said:
That goes to Pro's opinion on appearance and looking professional, it's the company's game and you played to it to get the job by getting a haircut and a shave, your reasons for not staying had nothing to do with appearance, and as far as being hard dirty work....yes it is, but you also don't have to be a rocket scientist to tell the difference between a guy who's dirty because he's been busting his butt all day and some guy who goes through life as a slop stinking and wearing stains of what he's eaten for the last week, just look at the slobs you see at truck stops and you'll see them and there's far too many of them, truck stops with showers and laundries by the way, I would only be out 2 days, but I always packed clean clothes for at least 3 days with extra shirts and never left a washroom looking disheveled, to me professional appearance is big especially if you want to be considered a professional.
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and honestly, i was actually going to mention the slobs that stink to high hell, at the truck stops. now put that same slob, at the shipping or receiving windows at any customer.

YOU can see what i mean about a clean, neat appearance, where others fail to do so.

yes, this IS America, land of the free and brave, la-dee-frickin-da....

when you work for a company, appearances (to me) mean a lot.

thanks.
 
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