I'm a fleet manager/former driver...ask me anything you want

If a monkey bit me, they would give me nothing. If I got poop thrown on me by a monkey they would do nothing. I personally never force my drivers to do anything unsafe, it is a liability issue after all. In fact at my terminal, we will never force a driver to do anything, we have the man power so if I driver only wants to work 2 hours, that's on him or her.

I know dcs does things differently but I have zero experience with that so I can't comment on that

 

It's good to see former drivers in management, they hire college kids at my terminal straight out of school

 

My terminal pays .375 hub miles. 26.25 drop 40.25 live. This driver makes that in 5 days, all my drivers only work 5 days. This person does that probably by not doing proper pre trips etc and I told this individual there's a really close eye on him/her one slip up and that could be it. I have 0 reason to make this up or exaggerate. What would I gain? I can care less if someone wants to work here or not. Like I said this person is a freak of nature, most guys aren't willing to put in their full 70, it's tiring

 

I'm paid salary, we have something called an fm score card which ranks us against other fleet managers. Each board has a goal of stops per day so lazy drivers would bring me down in that aspect. I personally don't pay too much attention to that fm score card because I think it's bs. I try to help my new guys as much as possible since I don't think 3 days of training is nearly enough.

 

Pay is close to what I was making as a driver, a lot of drivers make more than what I do now, and they earn every penny out there