Met a young driver who deadheaded from Alabama to pick up a load from GardenCity,Ga to Channelview Tx (NEVER TAKE ONE OF THOSE CHANNELVIEW LOADS!!!)

Total miles were 1200. Linehaul was $820. Fuel surcharge was $280. Do the math. I told this kid that he's going to have to dig into his own pockets to pull that load and the only way to minimize the impact is to do an overnighter.

Well, he dropped that load on Monday and told me about his next load, going from Taft,Tx to Roxana,Il as part of a crane move. I asked him if he was going to do an overnight since he was starting the week off in the hole. He said that that was 1000 miles total. I told him to call the consignees and see what time they receive. I asked him, "Do you have a GPS?" He responded, "NO I dont need one.

He called me back later pissed off. He was dispatched at 0900 and had a 200 mile deadhead to Taft. He showed up at 1430 and they wouldnt load him and told him to come back on Tuesday. He got there Tuesday morning and got loaded. I told him that now he was in a bind. If he gets that load off on Thursday, he will not be able to make his truck payment. Going into the hole to pull that Channelview load really hurt. So I told him how to do a thousand mile overnighter.
A couple hours later, the guy calls me with more bad news. He misses his turn and pulled into somone's field to get turned around and sanked the truck to the axles. The property owner called the cops and raised sin and our driver had to call Claims.

Ouch.

1000 mile over nighter? And you wonder why the DOT is in the office checking logs./
How is he not going to make a trk. payment when he can scan in his paperwork by Sun. night I believe and still get paid yet the next Thurs.??

Remind me to never call you for advise..

Having done 1000 mile overnighters, I gotta say OUCH!! If that's what you gotta do to make it as an O/O, I'll stay a company driver, methinks. No truck, no freight is worth someone else's life, triplesix.

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Load at noon shut down at 11 pm, restart at 9am, deliver at 1:30 pm. 1000 miles, perfectly legal overnighter delivered next day. Get your panties out of a wad.

Whatever makes you feel safe, stick with it.

The only problem with what TripleSix is saying is that now they want us to match QC to logbooks, and that's going to0 really create problems for guys who run like this.

Get to a shipper at 7am, put in your arrived call, but don't put the loaded call in until 12noon. If they see by your GPS (and they can) that you were still running by 11pm that night, you're going to have problems with your 14 hour window.

It's one of the things I've been wrestling with the least fwe weeks, and I HATE IT.

This is going to be black boxes people. They are here.

I wasn't referring to you, Six. I was talking to passingthru69, who seems to think ATS is right all the time, and all us L/O's and O/O's are idiots. I said I'd accepted 2 loads out of LA, and he responded with "SOMETIME YOU JUST HAVE TO DH OUT OF FONTANA."

If he's going to try to defeat everything everyone says with one liners, it'd be nice if he read the post...

I think my FM is one of the newer ones. Im not sure, I never really asked. All I know is that when I was in orientation, and we met for that 2 minute interview, he heard nothing I said as he was watching all the skirts (and there are some nice ones) walk by more than listening. My opinion was pretty much formed then, but I figured I'd ride it out.


I've learned to do this about which number I am. This week on the east beach, I was 6th in line for about 18 hours. NOTHING was moving...it was really something.

The very first load my FM gave me was simply to clear his board on a holiday weekend. I'm convinced of that. I've dispatched. He does it a lot actually. Tries to anyway. We but heads a bunch on Thursdays and Fridays when they seem to try to clear the #### freight that's been sitting all week first. Seems to me the good loads come out right after lunch on Friday. That makes me nervous to wait that long, but it seems to work.

I was sitting in Fontana with a guy who seemed to have an extensive driver network. Every time I asked OUR FM (turns out we were on the same board) about what he'd talked about, the information was 3 weeks old. I ended up really not liking the guy, and hope I don't seem him again frankly.

This happens a lot to me. Maybe it's me, but if I've never seen a guy before, don't know him from Adam, and the first thing he wants to do is tell me how to secure my load, brag about how much of a Class 1 he is (when I've hauled blades and he hasn't), (then pulls put of Pensacola with 4- 5/16th's chains, directly secured on a 35,000 pound hub), I kind of lose my liking of the guy. In fact, he ticked me off so much, I figured I'd let Banning tell him about those chains. He made it in though. Somehow.

I hope that's all I've been getting lately is just a run of crappy luck. I'll be in New Orleans on Monday, and hope to god I have a better week. This past one was the 3rd lowest paycheck I've seen yet. I try to use the Sureway board to get a basic idea of how ATS freight is. I realize that's not a real accurate indicator, but it does help to get a feel for a given area, and Louisiana didn't look near as bad as Maryland was this week.

well personally im a L/o with ATS inc pad wrap side everything has been great until today driving up interstate all traffic stops *trucker horror story* all traffic stops im in left lane trying to stop car jumps out .... rear end hit minor though just bumper damage to them and a radiator for me i just hope ATS sees it that way and i dont lose my job over this

Best of luck. Let us know how it works out. It could be sticky with the audit coming up.

i thoutht the audit was already going on?
dont bother me i keep my log book legal as possible when possibe but if you know ats its pushed on occation

i can say one think a 20 mph impact can do alot of damage about 6600 worth