So, Idk if this is the right place to tell my story, but here goes. Recently I took up Trucking as a career( about 8 month ago total). I worked at an OTR mega-carrier for about six months. I loved it. They paid my training and promised the world, and I LOVE driving trucks. I would spend my free time doing it if I could. But slowly, the problems started to set in with my pay (as in, me not getting it), and so did the stress from poor management decisions effecting my week. Then my Fiance left me (She couldn't handle the 'pressure' of me not being the stay at home parent), and has become relatively irresponsible. So I decided on my most recent home-time to put in some Local applications, and I'd accept the first one I got for decent pay so that I could be home and take care of my daughter, and take some of the babysitting burden off of my parents. I went ahead and signed on to a huge LTL carrier. Straight out of the gate there were issues. Their equipment was falling apart. Deer guards hanging off, exposed forklift electrical wires, and a ton of damaged freight. I went through their one week training program and decided to see if maybe this week was a fluke and I was sorely mistaken. On my first (and final) day on my own, they gave me a truck with an engine fault, and told me not to rework the freight at the back of the truck before my first run. So I listened. It was poorly wrapped and secured and was guaranteed to fall over. I drove as grandma-ish and as careful as possible, But part of the problem was that it was a tight back at the destination, and the automatics buck a little sometimes at slow speeds. When I bumped the dock, I heard some of the pallets topple over. (three load straps couldn't save it) Over a hundred, very small, but very heavy boxes of packing tape all over the floor. I spent an hour restacking the pallets by hand. Needless to say my back is still sore. Then, all of the other freight was damaged by God knows who God knows when when they got to unloading it. Basically ALL of it. Stacked do not stack items, punctured boxes, the works. I was there from 8:30 to 11:30 while they sorted through and reloaded the damaged freight. So I headed back to the terminal, and they give my an assignment to take the WORST trailer I have ever seen a major carrier pull. Thing was not road worthy, really. I followed my instructions however, and took it to the destination (which I shouldn't have done, but I was feeling the pressure of needing to support my daughter), only, on the way there, I passed a weigh station (and of course this company doesn't use prepass), and of course they pull me in for inspection. I'm sweating bullets. I know this trailer has OOS issues. The officer looks at me, and says, the only reason I'm going to let you go today, is because three other (from our company) trucks got fines here last night. I said thank you and when I got back to the terminal, I quit. As I was signing the exit paperwork I get a call from a major carrier that has a higher paying no-touch position waiting for me. The smile on the terminal managers face was hilarious as I answered the phone and said “you said you were with xxxxxx carrier?”. He was polite about it however, and wished me the best of luck, and told me to do what I had to do. So long story short, this carrier was an absolute nightmare, on top of a job that already involves getting cutoff a day, and screamed at by people who don't understand how LTL freight works, so I quit and took another job while in the process of telling I quit.