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Post by truckertom on May 15, 2005 12:47:16 GMT -5
When you have been in this racket as long as I have, you get real quick at seeing the future. He called and said he had found a job in the oilfield making $17 an hour, but couldn't name the company!
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Post by Pcuthbert on May 15, 2005 22:04:04 GMT -5
Yeah Right.
I can see him winching a load onto a deck with his swamper close by, catching the load on a pin and snapping the cable taking off his swampers head. Your description of this man makes me think he could not be the swamper on an oilfield truck, so driver seems the only position.
Think he can put the chains on the tires if he has to?
Pat
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Post by truckertom on May 16, 2005 9:02:30 GMT -5
"Think he can put the chains on the tires if he has to?"
I can attest to the fact that he can't wipe his butt very well...can't reach it. I know, my drivers seat hasn't been the same.
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Post by Fozzy on May 16, 2005 15:17:03 GMT -5
We had a few of these people come through my class in Green Bay. They showed up completely unprepared and from the initial paperwork procedures and the equipment introductions they were almost beligerant on what they would or would not do. Most things that would fail at before even attempting it. When you describe a procedure or maneuver and they flat out tell you why they cannot or will not do it, you know your'e in for a long tedious class. The drag on the other students is also a problem. We had one guy who was going to sue us, the hotel he was put up in (they didn't provide him enough breakfast), the trucking company he was planning on going to and the Ford Motor Company because he didn't like the brand new Windstar van that we picked him up in, in the AM. Sheeesh! If he weren't on welfare and having the whole tab being picked up by the State of Wisconsin, He may have even been taken seriously
Fozzy
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Post by truckertom on May 18, 2005 13:08:11 GMT -5
I love those types, like you supposed to open thier heads and pour it in using a funnel. "Yes Jim, you actually have to touch the wheel to learn to drive!".
A year later it is the school fault because they are lazy, welfare cases that have never had to work for anything.
But alas, I feel the soapbox slipping under my feet.
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Post by Fozzy on May 19, 2005 6:52:41 GMT -5
In our first "wave" of "welfare to work" students from the Milwaukee area, we had this short VERY heavy woman who showed up to class the first day with one of those VERY high wrapped up hair doos, a diamond in her front tooth, manicured fingernails so long that she really could barely use her hands (gripping was out of the question). a lime green warm up suit and snow white FILA tennis shoes.... She flat refused to touch any items on the truck and said that she was only there because some "dude" at the state place told her that trucking was easy...
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Post by truckertom on May 19, 2005 19:54:45 GMT -5
So much for a dip stick! I take it she wants to pull a flatbed?
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Post by Pcuthbert on May 23, 2005 15:28:01 GMT -5
Maybe she will get up on a load of lumber with a tarp, and get blown away We had a manager who felt that anyone over 200 pounds was too heavy to haul bulk products (mostly tanker work). He lasted about 6 months, but in the meantime, he cost us 8 good drivers. Oh yeah. His weight was 280 and 6 foot tall. Guess weight restrictions don't count in an office chair. Pat
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Post by Pcuthbert on May 23, 2005 15:30:10 GMT -5
Quote: "They didn't abolish slavery....they just made it pay a little better"--TruckerTom Quote
Maybe so, but the benefits are worse. Used to have free room and board, clothing, and only had to work from sunup to sundown.
Should we bring it back?
Pat
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Post by truckertom on May 23, 2005 17:27:07 GMT -5
When you have a horse go down, you call the vet. When you have a worker go down, you fire them and send for a replacement. It seems animals have become more valuable than humans.
I read that replacement workers used to walk into the factories past people carrying out the dead body of the worker they were replacing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The trucking industry is a conveyor belt with people getting on at one end, and getting thrown off at the other. DAC gets some, tickets get others and some become Owner Opperators and wind up loosing their homes, cars.......But the belt keeps turning.
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Post by truckertom on Aug 14, 2005 9:36:50 GMT -5
Well. it happend again this week.
Case #1
Another big talking, second generation guift to the trucking industry bit the dust this week. Seems he has ADD and can't keep his head on without his medication. So even though he can't drive worth a d@mn, he is in the sleeper telling the other students everything they are doing wrong. It took this ADD guy two weeks to pass his written exams. Had he been my student, I would have brained him.
We sent him home to mommy!
Case #2
A student of mine decided to try to beat the light while taking his driving test. The light turned yellow so he gouged on it trying to beat it. And his trailer was still in the intersection when it turned red. So he failed his test.
The next day he doesn't come to school, goes fishing instead and gets drunk. He drives, gets pulled over and now has a DUI on his record...and he still shows up for school!
I know we instructors get dissed alot by ex-students, but alot of folks don't realize what many of us instructors have to put up with.
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Post by Fozzy on Aug 14, 2005 9:55:31 GMT -5
OH yeah! There are the types who are late all the time and seem VERY upset when they show up at 0730 and the truck is pulling out of the gate and the instructor (ME) simply waves at them and has the students who actually showed up at 0700 keep on driving. They have to miss out on the day of driving and the lead instructor (who usually stays in the office for these cases) gets to pile them under with videos and hazmat training... I usually get back to see Mr. Or Ms. frowny face and their tyrade about;"I was only 30 minutes late!!!" I just point at the others and say " They weren't".
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Post by truckertom on Aug 14, 2005 14:24:24 GMT -5
I'm the lead instructor where I'm at, and I have left a student at a whizz stop before because he started a conversation with someone there.
I have had some students say some very bad things about me....I like torture. When it is time to change drivers I say "next victim"!
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Post by truckertom on Sept 8, 2005 20:44:22 GMT -5
Wow! I have a student this week that cannot keep herself from turning the wheel while backing up! She will just automaticly turn the wheel for no reason at all. I was going to work on her parelell parking today but ya can't P. Park 'til you can back straight. What will she do when it comes to the 90 and 70 degree backing?
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Post by Pcuthbert on Sept 12, 2005 19:25:29 GMT -5
Tom;
It will probably just fall right in for her.
Can you get her a 5 point seat belt? I suspect that she is turning the upper half of her body when she looks out of alternate mirrors resulting in a wheel shift.
Pat
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