what is arnolds hometime policy?

what they say is weekly for regional and like two weks for super regional. Although it will just be 34 hours most the time and I had a fight every weekend to get home. It's why I ended up quiting. they also say they try to get it on the weekend but they don't try very hard, and if they do it will be saturday evening and you leave sunday night or monday morning.
biggest problem I had is if they don't get you home on the wkend they end up trying to make you sit in the yard over the weekend. see over here every friday they brought me into Dallas where the terminal is. then they try to make you run local stuff because they don't have enough local drivers. then they don't want to let you out of the yard all weekend unless you agree to run the local stuff

LOL my DM doesn't seem to be much older than 21

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i plan to stay out 3-4 weeks (they loved hearing that) and take 3-4 days off policy is quoted as ....
regional 12-14 days out and 24-36 hours home if you go to their website it will tell you more info

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right now Arnold is screwing with me by not returning my employment varification to the company I am trying to get on with. They've been holding it for a few days now

well that sucks! i would call twice a day LOL
i was the only one out of 12 that actually got assigned a sleeper truck out of theyard today......only catch is it is in the shop. posibbly till friday.
that i can handle, the other drivers got assigned daycabs and have to sleep in a motel at night until they can put them in sleeper trucks! LOL

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tell them to get a load to dallas. the Grand prairie yard is full of sleepers. When I got my truck I wanted one of the old KW T800's but they put it in the shop for brakes the day we were getting trucks and it was going to be three days so they assigned me an 07 columbia with like 40k on it. Since I had the most exerience of anyone there I got the newest truck. I still would have rather had the old KW.

They told the company they don't respond to employment varification by phone, fax or email. Told them they need to MAIL it in and they would MAIL it back... BS on that.

I called yesterday ######## and they say they will send it by noon today but we will see. I stuck it to them when I left by photographing every qc message they sent me for evidence in case they tried t mess with my DAC so they are probably trying to blackball me on purpose.
just a tip, when things go sour with them make sure you CYA like I did or they will try to put the screws to ya. and they are FAST to put bad marks on your DAC. They were telling me they were going to put a truck abandonment on mine but I had photo's of all the messages for three days where I was telling them I would deliver the truck to the yard anytime the gave me approval to do it. I wasn't going to move it without a dispatch because I didn't want to get arrested for stealing it, which I also would not put past them.

10-4 on that mine is an 07 with 130K on it its at F'liner till tomorrow

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Pat.. Arnold just told the company I'm going to that I abandoned the truck and had "unauthorized use" too bad for them I have photo's of the qualcom dispatch that told me to take the truck to the Nacogdoches TX yard. LOL!! I had refused to move it without a dispatch and then I took a pic of it. with my cell phone. The company didn't care anyways since they "know how Arnold is" in there words, not mine.

So that punctuates my point about making sure to C.Y.A.

the unauthorized use thing is a bit harder to defend because technically I did. they changed there hometime policy 3 weeks into my employment. when I sarted they would deadhaed you home for your requested homtime and pay you for it. they changed it to not deadheading you home more then 100miles. I live 120 miles from Grand prarie. After a few weekends sitting in the yard with no loads home my DM started telling me "I can not tell you to go home, they won't allow me to. Hoever you can TELL ME you are going home and I can't do much about it" so that's what I did. I did it three weekends in a row with no problm but all of a sudden on the last one they decided to call it unauthorized use since I quit two days after getting home.

man i sure hope i have better luck over here in this region!!!

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