Western Express CA terminal MADNESS

[Rusk_Tuskins]

WARNING: Western Express' West coast division is INSANE. They are hiring LITERALLY ANYBODY. One driver I have seen wanders about the Bloomington, CA terminal and is obviously mentally handicapped. Many others appear to be suffering from various mental illnesses. Many are obviously homeless. Minor crashes are happening constantly in the yard. One driver in my orientation group was admittedly autistic. The terminal itself looks like an abandoned insane asylum haphazardly converted into a trucking terminal.
This has resulted in a mass shortage of trucks and trainers for new hires. Dozens of people just waiting around the terminal for a truck or trainer and the few sane ones leaving to work for a different company.
The "road test" is literally just a drive around the block so NOBODY CAN FAIL IT. The shop is FULL CONSTANTLY- with a long line of trucks waiting for repairs. The yard is always congested with empty and loaded trailers because drivers constantly quit in the middle of a load. Employee parking is mixed in with the truck and trailer parking and every few days tons of cars get blocked in by trailers that have nowhere else to go.
UTTER MADNESS.

I cant speak for the Nashville terminal, but from what I hear it sounds like an actual, normal place. But driver's considering working for their west coast van division... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

 

[Mike]

I have seen wanders about the Bloomington, CA terminal and is obviously mentally handicapped. Many others appear to be suffering from various mental illnesses. Many are obviously homeless. Minor crashes are happening constantly in the yard. One driver in my orientation group was admittedly autistic. The terminal itself looks like an abandoned insane asylum haphazardly converted into a trucking terminal.

They should sell tickets just so we can go view the chaos it sounds like, lol.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

WARNING: Western Express' West coast division is INSANE. They are hiring LITERALLY ANYBODY. One driver I have seen wanders about the Bloomington, CA terminal and is obviously mentally handicapped. Many others appear to be suffering from various mental illnesses. Many are obviously homeless. Minor crashes are happening constantly in the yard. One driver in my orientation group was admittedly autistic. The terminal itself looks like an abandoned insane asylum haphazardly converted into a trucking terminal.
This has resulted in a mass shortage of trucks and trainers for new hires. Dozens of people just waiting around the terminal for a truck or trainer and the few sane ones leaving to work for a different company.
The "road test" is literally just a drive around the block so NOBODY CAN FAIL IT. The shop is FULL CONSTANTLY- with a long line of trucks waiting for repairs. The yard is always congested with empty and loaded trailers because drivers constantly quit in the middle of a load. Employee parking is mixed in with the truck and trailer parking and every few days tons of cars get blocked in by trailers that have nowhere else to go.
UTTER MADNESS.

I cant speak for the Nashville terminal, but from what I hear it sounds like an actual, normal place. But driver's considering working for their west coast van division... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Did ya take a good look around out there..

Whatever company "Name Here"..

Whatever place "Blank"..

Welcome 2 the Real World Pal.

Now as part of "Initiation" we gotta take out the Back of Pee-Lot ..

Beat-Down and your Tattoo

 

[Electric Chicken]

WARNING: Western Express' West coast division is INSANE. They are hiring LITERALLY ANYBODY. One driver I have seen wanders about the Bloomington, CA terminal and is obviously mentally handicapped. Many others appear to be suffering from various mental illnesses. Many are obviously homeless. Minor crashes are happening constantly in the yard. One driver in my orientation group was admittedly autistic. The terminal itself looks like an abandoned insane asylum haphazardly converted into a trucking terminal.
This has resulted in a mass shortage of trucks and trainers for new hires. Dozens of people just waiting around the terminal for a truck or trainer and the few sane ones leaving to work for a different company.
The "road test" is literally just a drive around the block so NOBODY CAN FAIL IT. The shop is FULL CONSTANTLY- with a long line of trucks waiting for repairs. The yard is always congested with empty and loaded trailers because drivers constantly quit in the middle of a load. Employee parking is mixed in with the truck and trailer parking and every few days tons of cars get blocked in by trailers that have nowhere else to go.
UTTER MADNESS.

I cant speak for the Nashville terminal, but from what I hear it sounds like an actual, normal place. But driver's considering working for their west coast van division... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

So business as usual then?

 

[389 Hood]

If that's all true, then someone needs to have this looked into before people are killed on the roads by these "drivers". They can easily be shut down by CalDOT.

 

[Electric Chicken]

If that's all true, then someone needs to have this looked into before people are killed on the roads by these "drivers". They can easily be shut down by CalDOT.

On the basis of a messy yard?

Okay.

 

[Mike]

Did ya take a good look around out there..

Whatever company "Name Here"..

Whatever place "Blank"..

Welcome 2 the Real World Pal.

Now as part of "Initiation" we gotta take out the Back of Pee-Lot ..

Beat-Down and your Tattoo

I think we just found one of the western express employees that the guy was talking about

 

[Duck]

They are hiring LITERALLY ANYBODY. One driver I have seen wanders about the Bloomington, CA terminal and is obviously mentally handicapped. Many others appear to be suffering from various mental illnesses. Many are obviously homeless. Minor crashes are happening constantly in the yard. One driver in my orientation group was admittedly autistic.

Western Express is a shitty company but since you're new to the industry, you need to know that most of the big companies have degenerates everywhere during orientation.

Most of them are weeded out by the drug tests and criminal background checks.

The shop is FULL CONSTANTLY- with a long line of trucks waiting for repairs.

This is most likely because of the labor shortage created by the government paying people not to work, and by the government requiring unreliable emissions control equipment that is constantly causing problems. And parts shortages caused by the government shutting down every business they didn't consider "essential" last year.

The yard is always congested with empty and loaded trailers because drivers constantly quit in the middle of a load.

This is normal for any company and has nothing to do with drivers quitting.

I don't know specifically about Western Express but a lot of companies have drivers who need to get home, grab a load and bring it to the yard and another driver who just left home grabs it. Or they have a local guy who goes home every day, brings empty trailers to local shippers and brings pre-loaded ones to the yard so they can be picked up by drivers who can't make it to the shipper before they close, or to save him time, having his next load ready to grab & go when he gets to the yard and drops off a load that delivers nearby, (and the local guy delivers it) etc. There are a lot of normal reasons for loaded trailers to be in the yard. You'll learn this stuff in the next few months though.

But yeah, for the most part, Western Express is known to be a shitty company that has low hiring standards.

 

[Rusk_Tuskins]

Did ya take a good look around out there..

Whatever company "Name Here"..

Whatever place "Blank"..

Welcome 2 the Real World Pal.

Now as part of "Initiation" we gotta take out the Back of Pee-Lot ..

Beat-Down and your Tattoo

A profession such as this requires a little more than just a pee-pee test and 5 min joyride around the block, just saying.

 

[Electric Chicken]

A profession such as this requires a little more than just a pee-pee test and 5 min joyride around the block, just saying.

Not if you aren't retarded.

 

[Rusk_Tuskins]

Not if you aren't retarded.

You're retarded if you think that's sufficient hiring criteria.

 

[Hammer166]

A profession such as this requires a little more than just a pee-pee test and 5 min joyride around the block, just saying.

Since you're new here, you should know that Birchy is pretty much the living embodiment of everything wrong with trucking. And I'm not even joking.

 

[Rusk_Tuskins]

Since you're new here, you should know that Birchy is pretty much the living embodiment of everything wrong with trucking. And I'm not even joking.

I see. Yeah just looking at his post before even reading it I could tell there was something wrong. Same disturbance in the force I would feel when I would enter the WE terminal.

 

[Duck]

I see. Yeah just looking at his post before even reading it I could tell there was something wrong. Same disturbance in the force I would feel when I would enter the WE terminal.

A lotta people make fun of Birchy but, after some coaching, we've taught him to hold his phone sideways when recording video.

That alone officially places him right of center on the IQ testing bell curve graph.

But he can also tie his own shoes and pull his pants up all the way, and that qualifies him as a genius by California standards.

 

[Electric Chicken]

You're retarded if you think that's sufficient hiring criteria.

For some people, more than that is a waste of everyone's time.

 

[Duck]

For some people, more than that is a waste of everyone's time.

Yeah. Those people typically work as recruiters for bottom feeder companies like Carolina Cargo, CRST, Western Express, etc.

 

[Electric Chicken]

You're retarded if you think that's sufficient hiring criteria.

Everything beyond a basic road test is a waste of time for anyone who's competent behind the wheel.

 

[Mike]

But he can also tie his own shoes and pull his pants up all the way, and that qualifies him as a genius by California standards.

Are you sure? He still eats burritos heated up on the defroster and has been known to go shirtless on the forum.

 

[Uncle Birchy]

A profession such as this requires a little more than just a pee-pee test and 5 min joyride around the block, just saying.

You'd be surprised actually but ya gotta pass the Dope Test..

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Are you sure? He still eats burritos heated up on the defroster and has been known to go shirtless on the forum.

Alteast for awhile I could take my shirt off "No Shame"..

I think it was @Patriciajhnson said I forget to Zip my Fly