the 5% idle is for trucks with bunk heaters in the winter. if the temp goes low enough that you have to idle overnight, or if your heater breaks, you just let your dbl know in the morning and make a note and it doesn't count against your total.

in the bulk division, springtime gets 30% idle time and summer gets 40% meaning that if you keep your idle lower than that you get that part of your bonus. there is no temperature range, just a percentage of total running time.

i dunno what i'm gonna do when i get out west this summer... i'm one of those crazy ####### who wears shorts all winter and starts sweating around 65 degrees.

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I agree, I know for a fact that my truck starts at 10, goes as low as 8 before she gets cranky and fusses...lower than that, its harder and harder...to the point where I have to give her a caffeine boost of 'wake your bass up' spray, into the intake.

I usually run the truck below 10 all night long and send a message in, saying something like "Idled for 10 hours due to cold temps"...etc. Actually, I come home and shut the truck off, only to go back out to the truck before I hit the sack to fire it up. Saves a few hours of idling.

So I know that I idle quite a bit in the winter and I've been told a couple drivers in another state have their truck running pretty much all day long; and neither of us get dings on our bonuses for that.

It can't really be argued that the DBL won't let you idle the truck at temps colder than that, because if the truck doesnt start, well they have to fork over the x hundred bucks to get a truck to come out and fire er up.

There is always a chance of losing the account, but if we keep our cost low and our service up there, we stand a good chance of keeping it. But yeah, always a chance of losing it, and I could go OTR if I had to. At least, Id still have a job.
I think that many drivers would like some of these dedicated accounts. The route that is joining with mine is only 360 miles. Not bad at all. You don't make 60 grand a year doing it (although depending on your years behind the wheel and bonuses, could clear maybe 50k a year). Plus its 5 stops, 1 of which never gets any freight. The remaining 4 stops could most days be done out the side door of the trailer.

One thing that I've mentioned before to my upper ups at the office is that I didn't sign up to do teaming. For me, and just the relationship that I have with my wife, I don't want to be away from home. I signed up with SNI to get some experience driving behind the wheel, only to transfer to a local oil field company out here. Im sticking with SNI right now just because of the stability. Not sure how steady the oil field guys are right now. As an added perk, not only did SNI put me through their training and all, I got a local gig where Im home daily. To me, that couldnt have worked out better.
So if worse comes to worse, Ill just start getting my endorsements for tanker, doubles...etc, and then find a local company to haul for out here.

Supposed to start teaming Tuesday.

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Teaming was one of the most obnoxious gigs ever, hope you like it more then I did lol. Then again we got the dispatcher from hell, who assigns us the load 3 hours late for pickup and when it was scheduled it was JUST BARELY possible, but then actually expects us to somehow get it there on time without changing the delivery date and time after the 3 hour late pickup. Course... that was Werner...

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You have unlimited chances to go too slow, but only one to go too fast.

What kind of run are we talking about here? If it's a 500-1000 mile run I could see your point. But if it's a cross country race say NJ-CA three hours means nothing then.

It is a scientific fact that the coating of piss in truck stop parking lots helps to absorb greenhouse gasses and cool the surrounding area. Studies have been done over the years by professional drivers and they've found that a sixteenth of an inch coating of piss is the optimal amount.

Moreover, the effect is magnified about twenty-fold when you concentrate the piss between the truck and trailer. Warm updrafts are created by the evaporating piss, which then use the nose of the trailer to accelerate the carbon dioxide into the troposphere and eventually into outerspace, where it dissipates harmlessly.

Interestingly enough, studies are underway right now to determine if pooping in a Walmart bag helps to lower NOX emissions in older trucks. So if you see a Walmart bag with a brown residue inside, leave it alone, it is part of the experiment.

I KNOW EXACTLY THE FELLING...THEY CHARGE WITH A PREVENTABLE ACCIDENT;THEY SEED THAT I BROKE A MARQUEE OR SOMETHING (I DO NOT EVEN KNOW EXACTLY WA TH THEY TALKING ABOUT , I REQUEST A ACCIDENT REVIEW 3 MOUNTS AGO AND NOTHING HAPPENED. IN ONE OF MY NUMERALS INQUIRES THE SAFETY LADY TOLL TO MY DBL THAT "NO MATHER IF I DID OR NOT THE PLACE IS OF ONE OB THE BIGGEST CUSTOMERS AND WE CAN NOT GOING TO ARGUE WHIT THEM." SHE DON'T CARE I WAS IN A 3 WAY CANFERENCE!!... I M TREATING TO GET OUT OF THIS LOUSY COMPANY (YOU BARLEY MAKE 600 WK %, WORK 3 WEEKS OTR AT THE TIME,LOTS OF MILES THAT SHND MAGICAL DISAPPEAR,1000 RULES LAKE A LITTLE BABY,NO..NO..NO..) BUT IS HARD WITH A PREVENTABLE ACCIDENT ON MY DAC. AND THE COMPANY IS FREE TO SEED OR DU AS PLEASED

Glad you said Werner, that sounded like PHX dispatch for RedSwift

That was the best part.

Was your Dbl in your truck? I dont think so... So what stopped you from Idleing your truck?

schneider think their are the only ones that have driver around their fingers and playing god .if they keep it up god can end the their buss. to just like he made us he can bring them do to size.