Do you have a boss in this career?

We all answer to someone.

Being your own boss in the company driver sense is essentially your being responsible for your own time management.

 

I see my boss every #### day.lol

 

You should insist as much official communication as possible be through the QC. I have spoken to my FM's supervisors a lot during my career. My last company my FM's boss was a great lady named Martha who did the truck assignments.

 

We're a small company so everything is done thru texting. So it all depends where you. Go fam

 

At a larger [mega] carrier, (where most new drivers will begin their careers) you have a few "bosses" and a number of others looking at your performance. Operations boss, fleet manager boss, safety boss, shop boss, etc. That said, there is still a lot of autonomy as long as you do the job and don't turn into the driver that has to be monitored 24/7 to insure you get the freight delivered in a timely manner. Some places have more monitoring and contact with the driver then others.

About the only time I talk with someone directly over the phone is if they need me to do a load swap with another driver, otherwise they leave me alone and I leave them alone (as long as they keep the loads coming)