Unfortunate event in trucking company.

I am hoping a few truckers out there have experience what we as OTR team drivers are experiencing.

We were basically set up for failure this week. We are, as said OTR team drivers and as I have searched and read if a team driver is near a place where they need to cover for a dedicated route, that team driver is the LUCKY ONES.

We were assigned a UPS airport loads to deliver from point A to point B of the airports. This account is time sensitive and we as team drivers have maximized our 70hrs.

So here we are running on recaps with no breaks and all. Just because its UPS airport delivery where the load is flown upon arrival we are to keep on rolling, despite of our sleeping pattern and schedules which wasnt even close to our schedules.

Its towards the end of the week and this route is officially shutting us down physically and mentally. All we get from dispatch is reason for being late and keep on rolling.

We have decided to leave this company which I know I should expose but since it has no known reviews we will keep it as is. No empathy for drivers only money for the companies pocket.

Let's just say their main terminal is from New Ulm, MN **hint, hint**

Please let us know if anyone else has experience this and what is recommended if for some odd reason we decide to stay with the company.

 

To reword my long message.

We didnt have the hours to start the dedicated UPS route that we had to cover for the regular team driver. Our recaps were from 5-8hrs at most, the first few days.

The schedule that I was mentioning was our driving time which is usually 3-3. Having to do 5hrs or so and switching right after was not working to make the arrival time.

My apologies if I confused anyone.

 

We, surprisingly, were the only team drivers in the area needed to cover the UPS dedicate route for the week, yet we didnt have the hours to start out with, that's what's puzzled to us about it.

I agree with everything you said, next time we will ask more about a delivery before accepting it. The company seemed to be in a rush to assigned someone without providing details.

Always learning in the trucking industry!

 

Reason we think it was a set up was because we were asked to do what's called a t-call for the load we currently had and pick up a different load to delivery to the "place" where the UPS dedicated route started.

Meaning "we" were the only team driver in the area to be assign the UPS dedicated route.

When we had just ran out of our 70hrs.

 

I run 3am-3pm and my co-driver runs 3pm-3am.
It's the same as before. 11hrs drive.

The little hours I mentioned were the hours gained at midnight after running our entire 70hrs.