I was a Transport Supervisor back in my active days and i guess
there's not much difference now and back then. Transport Supervisor
encompasses many different job scopes. For one, you can be in
charge of all the 5 Tons, Land rover, Admin vehicles or do the
detailing for the drivers. I was in charge of detailing the drivers
and trust me, you will be the most hated person in your MT Line.
Drivers will threaten you, ignore you and even pangseh you. There's
truly no enjoyment in being a transport supervisor. Much so, if you
are the only NSF spec in your MT Line, you will be picked on by the
regulars, the MT SGT (A SSG or MSG) or the MT WO..They will ask you
to do all their shit or whatever u can to cover their asses or
assist them in some carrying balls.. I have been there done
that..The job really sucks.. if possible, try to ask for a posting
in the HQ and not in the MT Line..
Truthfully speaking, there's no glory in being a transport sup
both in active and reservist times..there comes a period where you
will be doing shitloads of work and it's called LRI...during that
period, you will be helping the regulars to cover their
shitholes..like filling up forms...going to other camps to get
temporary replacements..washing vehicles..etc..anything more can pm
me
Either i'm lucky or drivers now are much better since i don't
hear drivers threatening, ignoring and pangseh their specs. They
aren't exactly the most obedient people to work with that i can't
deny and there are black sheeps but i've work with them alot during
my NS time and they are not as scary as you make it sound.
Sometimes i think i give the specs more trouble than their drivers
do when transport gives me problem :p
Regardless what vocation you are in, its alot of saikang so its
not restricted to just transport. All units will have the some sort
of shit to clear and all of them sucks.
LRI or what is known as LAB now is indeed the busiest and worse
period for a transport spec but once that is over, things seem to
slack off quite abit for a short period at least since most of the
work is completed.
Compared to many other vocations, many other types of specs, i
won't say transport spec is so bad or even anywhere near the worse
spec to be.
