I QUIT Trucking! (Exploitation of Drivers, Illegal Work, Trucking Carrier Red Flags, Violations)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2022
- Say NO to these illegal practices and trucking carrier red flags! 🚩
In this video, Ronen has been recruiting drivers for 15+ years and has heard hundreds of horror stories from drivers who have endured negative experiences with many trucking companies.
What are the most common things that NEW drivers are being asked to with their trucking carrier that are ILLEGAL?
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I had a big argument with the owner of the truck I drive because he didn't want me to report all the non working safety related items on the PTI. I ended up telling him to drive himself, I walked away.
Thank you for sharing! Drivers need to hold their ground and protect their license!!
I haven't met one single driver that doesn't put himself off duty at a shipper or receiver. If u didn't u would legit make no money at all. Like maybe 400 a week MAX
I check in and check out, both on duty. When I’m being loaded, I sit in the sleeper…
@@jmacd8817 isn't that technically also illegal?
@@Joshualibbyy yup.
Sad thing is I didn't know until watching this video, and digging and confirming it. The worse thing is that an HOS guy at work was the one that originally told me it was ok. Yikes!
But, one of the folks I just confirmed with is my dispatch; so I don't think the original guy was pushing to be illegal, I just think he didn't know the law. (Same as me)
@@jmacd8817 logging sleeper while being loaded is not illegal so long as you are in fact physically IN the sleeper while being loaded.
On Duty gives you your 30 minute break now so it accomplishes the same thing. It even pauses the drive clock, unlike before. There's no real reason to go Off Duty if you're not actually off duty and it's a place that takes long enough to get a 10.
As far as I know, here in NZ, everyone in the chain of command gets done, not just the drivers. So if you're running over your hours regularly, you'll get in trouble, then your dispatcher, then their boss for allowing it, all of the way to the top if necessary.
The first company I worked at when I got out a truck driving school was like that you may have heard of them western express I would often find things wrong with trailers and in the beginning I just thought I had bad luck and then I would have to get lights fixed or tires or whatever but sometimes it was more serious than that and you couldn’t even use the trailer and sometimes the dispatcher‘s would say will just pull the load anyway and then once you get done with the load Will get you fixed up somewhere and I actually quit because of that stuff and I got lucky I guess because where I work now it’s a really safety oriented company and they don’t want you to drive anything unless it will pass DOT so if you have a problem you don’t have to ask twice either they fix it or you just go onto another load and leave the load in the yard until it gets fixed or leave it at the wherever it is but they never try to pressure you into hauling it
Been driving ten years. I've never done interstating, I didn't know that. Good info sir.
Thanks for the positive feedback! Stay safe!
Had an offer to drive a truck in Canada, since I have been driving in Europe for 15 years. but due to lack of information I did not dare to pass. But the channel provides you with such useful information that thank you very much. I keep following you
Your right on and your company must be a place drivers want to be! Thanks!
Hi Ronen. All the info you put out there is extremely valuable. I’m starting my trucking carrier at 45 yrs old, and I’ll be starting next week as a company driver. Really excited.
My Company makes me do all those things and I can’t get a decent job or a decent wage so I have no clue what to do I’m a prisoner of the truck in Industry my company makes me back up to the door go off duty and take my 10 hour breaks while I’m getting loaded or unloaded
I’m sorry it’s your responsibility no matter what they say. Keep your license clean for a better job!
Be safe out there!
Sorry to hear this is happening. Please be careful!
You are awesome as usual , In the 70s we would spend all day loading all night driving 12hr and put it in the log book that I came up yesterday that way I could drive home 12hr unload and then have a sleep , it would be a 36hr shift twice a week
Thanks for the compliment! Oh, how times have changed eh?
@@NorthAmerican-Trucking-News Yes time has changed and so have I , I'm 70 now and still Love trucks all the best from Australia
I am from the Caribean wanting to move to change profession out of IT and get into trucking and believe me, I love your videos. Very great information. I will definitely look your company up because you and your company seem ligit and really care and want to help and be fair to truck drivers
Ronen Thank you so much for the info, I am hoping to meet you soon and keep the vids, coming
I'm in CDL school now and this is all great to know
don’t do nothing to jeopardize your license no matter what anybody says and that includes somebody making you do something to where you think you might hit something or run in your clock over your hours her drive in some kind of messed up trailer
Very glad this video was helpful for you. Good luck at school!!
Always good content! Thank you for posting this video.
Thank you for this information! More piwer to your channel!
QST week on my own, my dispatcher wanted me to drive 4 hrs to pick up a load on personal conveyan. I didn't. Took 6 hrs to get loaded. So could only drive 1 hr. He was pist and said I won't make any money as a trucker. I told him it's my license and not his. Like why book a load so far away and I would not get paid for that 4 hrs because I get paid percentage. Didn't even see no retention money either. 😕
Exactly! It's YOUR license on the line. Glad you stood your ground. Stay safe out there!
Learning so much from your channel Ronen 👍🇯🇲
That is great to hear! Thank you for watching!
Thanks a lot Ronan, keep up the good video's!
Anytime! Thanks for watching Joran!
My job recently asked me to take one truck to another state, pick up another truck and bring it back up to the terminal in my state. The truck I was taking had a CEL; I said I wasn't taking it. I got back in MY truck and I went on about my day. They were disappointed, but I didn't care.
You do what's best and safest for you!
Thanks for all this information ronen , I wish to be a truck driver and you are great help doing it 👍.
You are very welcome!!
great job Ronen ( and the rest of the crew) , been driving for 20+ years and STILL learning stuff!! Keep those vids coming!!!
Thanks for the positive feedback! Oh we will definitely keep the videos coming!!
Another good informative video.
Thanks again!
God bless you. I quit because of these kind of violations. Thanks Ronen
Thank you bro, you are a very good guy.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome vid Ronen 😎😎🚚🚚🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍
Thanks I was doing some of this mistake...no more
So I am at a live load/unload I should not go off duty while backed up to the dock awaiting the facility to do its job? One can sit for hours until cleared to depart.
Technically yes. Do 95% of drivers do it? No.
Good job thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your videos.
Can you put topic about Insurance requirements, now many stories that drivers actually not insured or not properly insured by the employer
Thank you for watching! We will look into creating this video.
New driver requirements for being on insurance. Is it true as a new driver, the employer does not place you on their insurance policy as a driver because of high insurance rates for them. but with drivers With a 6month experience or 1+ year experience they are placed on insurance policy. Is that common? As a new driver, what should you be looking for in companies that benefit your livelihood? US driver, new driver.
Interstating or "cabotaging" is a big issue here in the EU, lots of new legislation on the table for it and the cops have their eyes on it.
Interesting with most Canadian companies happens every trip
@@drowsy4 here it's more a case of companies from poorer member countries exploiting drivers and running down rates and standards.
Thanks for sharing!
awesome info
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hey Ronen, I like your videos and topics you cover throughout all your TH-cam videos. It gives a motivation to continue to do right things even if we get paid few $$$ less. #actwithIntegrity
Since, you guys have 100+ trucks and always looking for new driver why you guys don’t start a program for new Drivers 90days new training program it’s a huge opportunity
I am new driving and looking forward to work in your company in any division
Keep making videos 👍👍👍👍love to watch you guys
Another tidbit on interstating: Lots of CDN carriers ask you to drop a loaded trailer (#1) at the receiver and leave with an empty (#2). Drop the empty (#2) at the shipper, hook to a loaded trailer (#3) and depart back to Canada.
CDN Companies don’t even know it’s interstating so it happens all the time.
The company I started with, shop guys would laugh at me for finding issues with equipment and say other people don’t come here that often. I never stopped bringing up issues even though I was new kept at it and they stopped questioning my PTI skills.
Boy, I wish you were around when I started driving. The first thing I was "taught" was how to fake my paper logbook, told to run over hours, told to run damaged equipment, and run over weight. I made it about six months and quit the industry because of how hard we were pushed, and that's too bad, because I enjoyed putting the truck down the road, and I was good at it. I still miss driving, and I'd like to get back in it, but with lack of experience now, I'd be going to a mega carrier where I feel the culture hasn't changed much.
Can't push you nowadays, and all you'll need is about a year with them and then get out
Get back in. The driver (new or not) has so much power now. As we deserve
I've been asked to do all of these things and even had use run Hazmat with no paperwork I called it in to DOT and Sheriff dept and no one cared.
Ronen can you make a video about the autonomous vehicles that can now legally be driven out with out a driver in it? and your opinion on the future of trucking for us truckers in the next decade?
Absolutely we can discuss this in a video. Thanks for sharing Amir!
I just walked away from an orientation and most that have mentioned here was what the owner operator was doing HOS violations and no training program just drive the truck while my trainer sleeps in his bunk
Crst Makes you run off your hours
your right
Working legally just based on the elog is good for pin to pin loads with 24/7 pick ups & drop offs. Otherwise truckers paid by the miles can't make it to proper mileage to make it reasonable staying OTR. Or to be paid per day at a certain range and whatever happens going on the owners, not drivers.
Otherwise it's better to drive local or to change the job. It's a hard lifestyle to be a longhaul trucker.
This is reason. Why i am working local.
No more log book
I’m from the us side and have notice a lot of trucks from Canada and Mexico have dual licenses plate’s. I don’t know if we can combat that, but you should do a video on dual licenses plates, If you haven’t already.
Good idea, thank you for mentioning this. We will look into it!
I am not driving that junk. End of story.
Correct answer !!
Fair enough!
Ronen
You didn’t mention haz-mat. My company told me I don’t need a fast card, or a Twic card to haul haz-mat in the U.S. All drivers in the U.S are required to have a security background check to get a haz-mat endorsement. Homeland Security allows the Fastcard, and recently the Twic card to satisfy this requirement.
Some drivers have bad work ethics... that's why the Inception of the Eld!!!
My company fixes what I need fixed..and I haven't been pushed to drive past legal hours...I wouldn't anyway...
can you talk about Russian small fleet owner. they push driver to run over hours ,and they change there log from the office.
I drove for Marten transportation and they told me to keep driving or they would fire me and prevent me from getting a bother driving job and when I did not keep driving after 36 hours they did fire me and put a lot of false things on my DAC / Hire right record and did prevent me from get another driving job . I had to get my own truck and drive for my self but it still took years before I could get got pay for driving. Thank god I was able to fall back on my mechanic experience other wise I would have been homeless. I even tried to get a lawer and fight but I was told by every lawer that because of the state that Marten was base in I could not do anything
I’ve driven 400 miles (delivered and returned) with the 4th axle completely removed and held by chains. INDIANA to KENTUCKY
Also, I drove past my hours many times and dispatch would fix the logs.
Fun times and I’m not with that company anymore lol
Roles you are the BEST
New nickname for Ronen? I like it!
I subscribe because of this video.
A family member inspects for the CHP
They are cracking down on all forms of truck And trailers. Not just big rigs.
Going into sleeper while being loaded is wrong ?
You know? Do they sell those tags in truck stops the "OOS" for trailers? I can't seem to figure out where I would get them from at my company, or where I can buy some locally.
Uline
no. 1 rule, It's your licence. anything that can effect it negatively, the answer is no.
exactly why Canadian drivers can’t unload their trailer in the US and have to use the lumper service
Hi, could you explain that further.... thanks
@@dhardy6654 because of the interstating that he mentioned in the video. Canadians unloading their trailers in the US would be taking jobs away from the Americans
Finna come work for you 😂🤝
Nice to know for us American's.
Glad this video was helpful!
Because of all these rules.. all over the road driving needs to be hourly pay ,with overtime after 8 hours...
I have a question I do good elogs all the time but the main reason I get to many violation on the truck and trailer no points or anything but everytime I call the safety and I asked them if it effects me they say no it doesn't effect you it effect the company only they said the violation goes on your psr not on your record any idea whats that mean thank you
The interstate law for Canadian drivers is accurate but I was told a card carrying canadian first nations citizen is exempt from that regulation....I'm not an expert but I've only heard
I like ur videos
Is there an interprovidence rule for drivers from the US when in Canada?
I'm in my first year of driving for a canadian mega carrier. They encourage us to actually follow the rules and laws and to even pull off the road in bad winter weather, wait it out and just give an updated ETA. as no load is too hot to risk yours or someone elses life Haven't heard of one person being asked to do otherwise. And any issues I've seen or had on equipment was put out of service asap and repairs made, guess I'm kind of lucky.
Keep up the good vids.
I always wave to your drivers as they fly past me on the interstates 🙃
We need to get rid of hours of service
You forgot to mention test US companies are declaring company drivers as 1099 Independent contractors but treat them as employees especially Eastern European owned companies they break labor laws all the time
The first company pretty much fired me for not running over my hours after being ordered to. So I went to work for Werner enterprises. They starved me out of the truck for not running over my hours. Third and current company asked me to do something shady. So from past experience of failure of not doing it. I did it. Got caught. Paid the fine and now I'm getting more miles and making more money than I can handle. I'm not saying fuck up on purpose but
so your saying I should Run over my hours if the company tell me too....
to make more money????
@@CJBhattarai no. I'm just saying what I did. I showed the company I work for that I'm committed to getting it done. You do you
@@CJBhattarai besides once you figure out how to work your clock so you can maximize your recaps and or shut down quick enough to reset before you're scheduled appointments running over hours won't be necessary.
@@tomgibson7989 I'm currently in trucking school will graduate in few weeks!! Did I made good choice of career for making loads of money without going college?
@@CJBhattarai nope. But it's better than most jobs that you can get without college. You get with the right company and figure out how to run that clock to maximize drive you can make between 60 and 80 grand your first year. Just got to stay in that truck and drive it all the hours you can
Elogs R. Handicap function 🤡
I love this channel. How many hours can Americans drive on off duty pc?
Here in Dallas I’ve been told you can only drive 45 miles on PC but as long as it is putting you further away from your pick up location. If it’s getting you closer to your destination you will be shut down
Thanks for the feedback!
@@rubenmorales5830 I sometimes use it when I run out of hours at a shipper and need to leave to find a parking spot. I was told this is legal even though your trailer is attached.
There's no legal limit to PC. Companies can limit it however they want though.
Tell me mr Ronen(ET) if the company recruits you maybe from as far as Africa paid for everything for you to land in Canada paid for your CDL license (we have an equivalent of your CDL here in Kenya) because my license is not recognized in Canada. Please tell me how can i refuse whatever he or she tells me?.in other words he or she owns me.
You are giving misleading information... it's true dispatchers want the drivers to get more miles... that doesn't need a driver to cheat his log books... Walmart doesn't allow a driver to take a load if he doesn't have enough hours!
Nothing that you mentioned saved nobody, everything is regulation after regulation. Everything should be more flexible, at the end you are there in the office doing nothing (doing report of efficiency) , I worked there. But I mean you want to keep your job which accomplish nothing. I wish there were a world with no trade people to see all office workers, what would they do. Btw I have Bachelors in CS. I think I have an idea of what I’m talking about
Exactly those government regulators regulate drivers to the teeth , even pilots are lil less regulated, at the same time we drivers mostly owner operators are not guaranteed any labour laws , have no wright's whatsoever that's why they abuse us financially as much as they can knowing well we can't win at the end
Don't turn logs off? Log on duty at shipper and receiver? Cry about every little thing wrong on a trailer? Ok, you will make about 500 per week as a truck driver. But you say your license is clean, no violations. So what? What good is having your license when you can make more working a fast food job
Are you related to Highlight, across the corner? Your colors are basically the same just different combinations and you're so physically close together.
I figured you might be cousins or something.
Just friendly neighbours 😊
I like you I would love to work for you
Get to KNOW your routes... KNOW when the scales are open... KNOW when troopers are rolling... KNOW the back roads that bypass the traps... and MOST of all... team up with a dispatcher/planner who is gonna keep you rolling... regardless of your HOS...
If you wanna make BIG MONEY today you gotta bend the rules... just don't break them... focus and you will learn...
20 years in the business... I've managed to save over 500k and I'm hanging it up to pursue my true dreams and start my own business that keeps me at home with family and friends... everyday...
Work the system yall... cuz if your gonna 'follow the rules' you mite as well get a job in the fast food business...
Always remember... it's YOU against THEM... no one cares if you succeed other than yourself...
The safety department is just an extension of the government... if anything goes bad out here on the road... that bag of bricks will be dropped on YOU...
That's why you have a camera recording you...
Get smart... work the system... use trucking to save and invest your money... and get out with a bag of cash...
Good Luck Yall... I'm out...
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