My blog with Melton Truck Lines

Thanks for the info. Wish you all the best in your new job.

 

Shoot. Skipped forward to the end to ask a question, and saw you quit. Thank you for the blog, I've been looking at Melton. Hopefully you don't mind another question. You said some days you got sent home early or stayed longer on home time, and it didn't take from your saved up days. But when did they let you know your first dispatch from home? Did you go into hometime knowing you had an extra day, or did you sit around not knowing what time you had to leave?

 

Don't mean to hijack that question, but here's how it works for me.

I deliver my hometime load and go home. My DM sends me a message with a date and time that I need to be "on board".

At that date and time, I go out to my truck and send my "on board" message. From what I've heard, they will not plan a load for us until we send in our "on board" commitment.

After you send it in, it's a waiting game. I go back in the house and wait, check for a load every hour or so. Sometimes I'll get one ready to pick up immediately, and sometimes I'll get info to pick a load up the next day.

There has been one time where I was called on home time and asked to go pick up a load and return home with it If I wanted to, which I did.

 

Negative. My dm calls me day before I'm due back out says I have this load set up for you I'm gonna shoot the info to your truck so you are ready to go in morning it picks up at this time and this far away.

 

Wish my DM did it like that! The way mine does it leaves me with an entire wasted day waiting to find out if I'm working or not.

 

my dm tells me be at truck @ so and so time and ill get you something within hour of you sending onboard
each time ive sent on board, i got preplan within 30 mins, picking up about 6 miles away from where i park, usually 8-9am pickup

 

Thank you so much for your information, I am currently attending to a Trucking school and I am planning work for this company, your information was very helpful for me.