Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I don't care if they pay me $.10/mi for recruiting...I don't recruit. I use this forum to lay out the good, bad and ugly and a person can choose to work here or not based on what I post...and right now, I am willing to bet, a lot of people might choose the 'not' the way things are going.

 

I was wondering what they were thinking when I was sent a preplan for N. Platte last weekend. Turns out, the hometime request I sent in for this weekend never got set right (my regular asset manager was out to lunch, literally, not figuratively) when I sent it in, so his back-up said he set it, but it wasn't set. I even got the RDO extention request earlier this week(if you don't reply with a number, it is suppose to get you home within xx number of days)..I didn't reply. When I asked my A/M this afternoon if there was a plan in the works for getting me home Sunday...I get an immediate call from him..."you wanted home this weekend?". That's what I requested more than a week ago...and proceeded to tell him that with all the problem loads, problem equipment, and problem customers I have had the last month or two, I am at the end of my rope, and the knot is coming untied. I told him that I have seen my house for 1 34 hr break since mid-February and when I say I am in a perpetual pissed off mood 24/7...I am not just blowing off steam...and told him that I am seriously considering asking Deland if we are allowed to transfer to Hunt without quitting and being re-hired over there so I can get away from this 3 ring circus but still keep my insurance...he was shocked that I was considering making a move away from Shaffer.

 

And now the comfort mode of the opti-idle refuses to restart 100% of the time, and it was warm enough outside that it should have worked. I spent all last night getting 1 1/2 hour naps because that's all it takes to get it so hot in the truck without a/c to wake me up. I would have opened vents, but I had a Magnum on one side with their APU running, and a truck with cab mounted stacks aimed off to the side on the other. Only way I can get comfort mode to work is cycle the key. It cools down once, shuts off, then never restarts. I even tried turning off the main power for 30 sec to reboot the ecm, but I don't think the engine ecm is even powered thru that switch, because it didn't help. If I had a decent saw I could cut off my wally-world cheap broom and wedge it between the seat and throttle, and just idle it all night..