I was a tour driver for concerts for five years before Covid, and they cancelled all concerts in 2020.
I basically took a two year break from that industry, and took other trucking jobs.
My most recent job was hauling auto parts out of Laredo to places in the Midwest.
I had a load of auto parts going to Nashville when I ran into a guy I worked with two years ago, and wanted to know if I was ready to come back to entertainment hauling.
I said sure.
Then the owner of the company called me, week after week, for two months, telling me they had all kinds of tours, and that they had great trucks, and I would get a base salary plus tour pay (an extra $15,000 per year) and access to catering if on tour.
He insisted that I come out to Nashville as soon as possible.
He convinced me that it was going to be good and I would be taken care of.
So I put my apartment furniture in storage and gave the keys back to the landlord, even though I was paid up through December.
I drive out to Nashville, with my car full of stuff ready to go on tour.
I get to Nashville, and they’re telling me there are no tours, until at least February, and they can’t guarantee me a place on a tour because it’s by seniority…and I just started with them, even though I had five more years experience than a lot of their drivers.
They wanted me to run freight, on salary, which averaged out to .36 cents per mile.
The truck they said they had for me was “in the shop” with transmission issues…so they had this other truck, that had like 490,000 miles on it, no APU, no refrigerator, no working outlets in the bunk, and no mirrors on the hood to check blind spots.
I was like “I’ll go out for a week in this truck if you guarantee I will get a new truck in a week and guarantee a spot on a tour.”
They couldn’t give me a definitive answer about either the truck or the tour.
I said “you lied to me.”
The recruiter had a red face and said “I can’t argue with you about that.”
I put the key fob to the terminal gate on his desk and drove back to Texas.
I was mad because I gave up my apartment, and I quit the previous job hauling car parts that paid .50 cents per mile, that truck didn’t have an APU, but it at least had a refrigerator.
Am I the Ass-ole for walking away on the second day of orientation?
Has anyone else done this?
Does anyone have advice?
Thanks
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