Truck Driving Career Some Mistakes You Must Avoid

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Truck Driving Career Some Mistakes You Must Avoid
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• Truck driving is a very challenging and thanks
  less job. There may not be anybody to thank you
  for successfully delivering a shipment, but a
  simple mistake can cost you your truck driving
  career. You will have to follow rules and
  regulations in every step.

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• For example, there are rules specific rules
  regarding how many hours you can drive or how
  many hours you will have to be on the road or
  even how many times you will have to use the
  breaks. Indeed, drivers get used to these rules
  but yet there are some silly mistakes that can
  draw the curtain over your truck driving career.

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• One common mistake that the truck drivers often
  make is they fail to report an accident. Often
  drivers tend to avoid minor accidents like a
  little bump in the parking lot. Usually, drivers
  want to by-pass minor accidents being afraid of
  getting penalties but if you dont report to
  company it may result in bigger consequences.

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• Failing to report an accident may even cause the
  termination of your contract because insurance
  carriers might drop a fleet or company if they
  become aware of what happened.

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• Besides these minor accidents, violations of
  traffic rules like hit and run or hitting objects
  on public and private properties are also
  responsible for losing the job unless you report
  those immediately.

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• Another mistake drivers do is that they often
  tend to hide their past by hiding their criminal
  reports or driving mishaps. When you will apply
  for a CDL test to start your truck driving career
  your driving and criminal records will be
  examined against both state and federal database.

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• If it is found out that the reports youve
  provided are not matching with the data base than
  you might not even be allowed to attend the test.
  Again, you cant have CDL in more than one state
  because that will disqualify you from having CDL
  now or in the future.

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• As a driver, it is your duty to follow the
  company policies. Every company has specific
  policies stated in a policy book. You must be
  able to read, learn and understand the policies.
  A companys policy may include no pets, no riders
  allowed in the truck.

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• A company may also disallow any sort of
  modifications to the truck. As a driver you have
  to abide by the rules. You will also have to
  follow some other rules like attending drugs or
  alcohol test when youre called or even call
  early if you cant go to your duty even due to
  sickness.

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• A violation of any policy is never a good idea
  because if the company wants, it might terminate
  your contract and end your truck driving career.

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• You may be an efficient truck driver but youre
  not above mistakes. Mistakes can happen at any
  time but what you need to look after is that
  mistake isnt happened intentionally and you
  report to the company immediately of what
  happened otherwise your truck driving career come
  to a premature end.

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