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No kidding! We train guys here, they go thru a few weeks traing and then a few weeks riding with a senior driver....at that point we make certain we dont send them into heavy areas, no major metro, no heavy runs up I90 etc...but then we hire drivers from companies that have gone out of business, and good heavens the guys literally no nothing more than to put the truck in gear and move (big surprise the company folded)! its frightening...more frightening is how many brokers we deal with that try to get us to run the drivers illegal (more than 14 hours). "well, XXX company will do it for us!" My reply is always to point out that just last year here a driver from another company was running illegally, fell asleep crossed traffic and killed a bunch of taylor university students on the way home from an away school function. and that drivers been charged with i cant remember whether it was straight murder or vehicular manslaughtrer.
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