Originally Posted by bigblue19

For you newbies out there who think you can just call safety when Op's try to get you to violate Federal Law or gives you a mission impossible should be aware that at many OTR companies this will punch your ticket to the Op's sh**t list for awhile. Or if you do it to often, maybe permanently. Been there done that.

Many of these OTR company's talk a lot about safety but you will soon find out how much they care about it when it means a late load and losing a cherished account and you getting a service failure you won't know about till it is on your DAC when you leave the company.

I got to the point driving OTR that I just took every Dp I was given and ran my hours. If you call safety every time the company gives you a MI then you will need a good phone plan.

Just send your macros and run your hours. You have 1 hour to run, then run it . Your stress will be lower because the company does not want to hear I can't do this and that because of this and that. At least none that I worked at did. USX would even tell you strait out, don't take the load and you might grow old sitting around waiting for your next one. Was sick with a bad fever at IDC, did they care? nuupe. Your the only truck around and we need the load pu. KLLM, what you were up all night sitting by your cb waiting for your number to be called? tuff we need this load covered or you might not get home when you need to. May Trucking, why did you shut down that load 50miles away from the receiver just becuase your 70 hours was up? And I could go on and on

Originally Posted by MorrisGray

Question? How would it work if you did have only one hour left to drive and you did not report to the company until that hour had expired? Can that be done and work for ya? Just curious, I have not chosen anybody to drive for yet and just wanting to learn before I get in and can't swim. My old days in trucking were for local freight, home every day.