About this episode
TRUCKING BACK IN THE DAY. There was a time when trucking meant something to everyone at every trucking company. When a new employee was hired, they were required to go on a trip with a trucker. The plan was to make everyone appreciate what the trucker had to go through on a daily basis. If you never drove a big truck before, you were going to know how is felt to be a truck driver, before becoming an employee in the office. This helped most employees, new to trucking, understand what it was like to be away from home and living inside a tractor-trailer. It also help each individual to see what it was like to command a semi truck while traffic was aggressive and even in bad weather. You learned the frustrations and the let downs of the every day operations of transporting freight. You developed a repeat for the truck driver and therefore you worked better with all truckers if you were a new dispatcher, manager or even a secretary. either way this was required at many trucking companies and we are being told that those carriers had less problems. Tine in and hear what TalkCDL trucking Podcast had to say about this topic. Trucker Forced to work for a Trucking Company TalkCDL had an exclusive interview recently with an undisclosed truck driver. We were told a story about a trucker that had developed a health issue. The driver was hospitalized and had not returned to work with in 15 days, so the company automatically terminated the driver, which in turn canceled his health insurance. When the driver was released from the hospital, a few weeks later he received a hospital bill of over 93, 000 dollars. He called the insurance company and was told there was nothing they could do about it. He then received a phone call from the carrier that terminated him. They said if he would come back and work for them they would make his insurance retroactive and then he would be covered. This was a plot to keep the trucker working for them. Tune in and hear the results of this conversation. Truck Driver Threatened by Carrier to Stay Recently a trucking company tried to stop a driver from quitting their company by threatening the driver. Trucker (lets call him Joe) Joe told TalkCDL that he tried to quit the company and in return the company told him they were going to report the rented trailers stolen. Tune into this conversation on this weeks episode of "Trucking Back In The Day". 75 Chrome Shop Truck Show TalkCDL will be at the 75 Chrome Shop April 23rd through the 25th. If you have the tome, come on out and say hi. We will be filming and interviewing drivers on scene. 75 Chrome Shop is located just of interstate 75 in Wildwood FL. Rev InsuranceJJ KellerNational carriersRey LogisticsBad Recruiting Call and Trucking NewsUpstaging Trucking for rock & country industryTwo Trucking DUI StoriesTrucker Johnny Acid and Fort Worth Tx