Anything good about Celadon from someone that is there now

I doubt that he'd be yelling at you. Log violations aren't something you make up. I downloaded that DDL program that you talk about to check it out, and I've been doing his logs on it for him to compare against what he's doing in the truck. I love it. I caught what would have been a 14 hour violation before he made it. Just for that, the money to buy it is worth it. I like that it shows where your 11 and 14 will end. He got home last night, and we did the last two days and printed one just so he could see what it looks like. He said he has absolutely got to get a laptop for this program. He likes it. So we are going to have to get a laptop pronto.

 

Hubby headed out last Sunday morning for Richmond, Va. Got there Monday morning no problem. Got MT'd and had a load assignment very quickly for PU in Richmond and deliver to Mountain Top, Pa. Then things started to go wrong. He had plenty of time to get there for his scheduled delivery appt. But then. Ah those fateful words. He got hung up in D.C. traffic and put him behind schedule by two and a half hours. So he got to his delivery the next day, late, got unloaded, sat waiting for like an hour for a load, decided to go to the truck stop twenty miles back down the road and wait. Most of the way there, and he gets a message on the qualcomm. Load assignment. Drop MT trailer there at vendor he just unloaded at and bobtail up to Rochester, NY for next load going to Bowling Green, Ky area. So he drives twenty miles back to where he unloaded, drops the trailer, then a message comes over the QC to keep the MT and take it with him to get it live loaded. GGRRRR!!! So he hooks the darn thing up again. Heads out and runs into a snow storm. He had time when he started out to get the load. Then hit the snow, sleet, and yucky roads and lost time again because the roads were just total poop. So he got there late. Thankfully he made it to his delivery in Ky on time today. But then. He got there half an hour early for his appt. Then sat for four hours getting unloaded. He was sitting there and they sent him a new load assign before he even put in MT, loads in Bowling Green going to SC. He had the time for it. Till the consignee decided to change their mind and take their time unloading him. Now he's late again. He made it to his new PU in Bowling Green fifteen minutes early. Then sat for an hour past his appt time before getting a dock. Then sat for another half hour before they started loading him. So now he's going to be late for his delivery again. This sucks. It seems like this week is just designed to be one of those late for everything weeks. He's not the kind of driver who only runs for eight hours or so before he stops. He runs all eleven if he has the time and still within his fourteen hours. That doesn't always happen, but like yesterday, he drove from Pembroke, NY to Shepherdsville, Ky without stopping one single time. Not even for potty breaks. He has food in the truck with him, snack bars, fruits, that sort of thing, and bottles of water, so he just ran. Eleven straight hours. Got himself back ahead of schedule, then promptly lost it again sitting at the receiver in Ky this morning. I can only hope that his DM knows he's not doing it on purpose. That he's not trying to be late, but things are just transpiring to work against him this week.

Paycheck tomorrow is good again. He's got 3542 miles on it. Run from Indy to Laredo. Laredo back to Indy. Indy to Richmond, Va. Richmond to Mountain Top, Pa. Loads are from last week on Monday to this week on Tues. And he was home this last weekend again from Friday night until Sunday morning.

 

Let's see, where to start. Well, I talked with him after his PU in Bowling Green. It was supposed to be an already loaded trailer that he could just pull in and hook up to. NOT. At any rate, he got jacked around, lost the time he had made up, and was going to be late for his delivery in SC. He sent in to DM on the QC, and they said it has to be there on time. Can't be late. Well, he couldn't have made it, because his hours got screwed there at the PU. So DM had him relay it to a team who took it on in. He met them in Knoxville, Tn. He got there at 9 PM, and the team didn't show up till 3 AM. Then he bobtailed back to Nashville yard and picked up a relay going to Laredo for Monday morning drop. No problem. He even managed a restart over the weekend, from Friday night when he stopped, to Sunday morning, and will be there at Laredo Monday morn right on time, maybe early. Hopefully he's back on track now. DM did say it wasn't his fault, he got screwed around at his drop in Scottsville and his PU in Bowling Green. Just one of those things. There's days when nothing seems to go right and that was one of them.

 

Well, it's Monday night and he made it to Laredo early this morning. Had to have the shop look at his truck for a problem. Got that done and put in that he was ready for a load at 10 this morning, but nothing yet. So looks like his first layover. He said there's twelve other drivers there. Some got there before him, some after. Hopefully he'll have a load tomorrow.

Did an estimate on his check from the dispatched mileage, which looks like it's going to be 2404 miles. Not a bad check for basically five days of driving. Plus he'll have toll reimbursements, and possibly detention pay too.

He had to do a restart over the weekend down in Little Rock, so he sat all day Saturday there. Boy it's sure nice to have decent paychecks. I only hope he doesn't have to sit in Laredo any longer, that his DM will have him a load tomorrow morning with some good miles on it.

 

RobW,

He didn't have to wait long at all to get his truck worked on in Laredo. Only about an hour and a half I believe from letting them know he needed it looked at to having it out of the shop again and ready for dispatch. He's sitting in Laredo right now for lack of a load. Not for the shop. Now Indy is a different matter. His one and only experience with them, it took them eight hours to hang a mudflap. Hubby went out to the shop many times to see if they had done anything, and the mechanics were just sitting around doing nothing. Others have said that Indy should be avoided like the plague if one needs repairs.

 

Well, let's see. It's been a week since I posted last on this thread, and I've slept since then LOL!!! I'll try to remember everything.

Hubby didn't get loaded out of Laredo till the next morning. About a 24 hour turnaround time. Got a load to OK city. Got that off, then up to Joplin, Mo for a load to NC to a Campbell's Soup place. Dropped that on Sat night then had to do a 34 restart or else no hours come Tuesday. He took in bulk chicken broth, and this morning they had him a load out of the same place of canned soup to Nashville yard to drop. Has a run down to Alabama tomorrow with a load he's picking up in the Nashville drop yard. He's supposed to be home Friday afternoon to evening, so I hope they've got a decent mileage run to get him home. Going to need it for the paycheck since that will be the car payment.

Oh, and his DM is great. She sends a message every morning to say hello, and every Monday to ask how his weekend was. She does that for all her drivers I guess. Or maybe only the ones she likes, who do the job without griping. I don't know. But still, I think that's a good thing. A DM who actually acknowledges their humanity instead of just their driver number and truck number.

 

She doesn't get in till 7 AM and she doesn't usually send it till around 7:30. He's already awake. And from what all the drivers have said, she's one of the best DM's they've got there.