Company constantly asking for favors, but won't get me home.

They had the worst reputation of getting me home on time when I asked them to get me home on a Friday. They became much better with monday and tuesday home time requests. Think about it. Friday delivery 3-4pm, by the time I'm unloaded. 6pm. I'm 3 hours from home. Here we go, not home until 9pm. And I've been up since 2am. I can't drive that late, possibly legally, but not safely. Can't do that. That was when I had to park at a local truck stop that was slammed full from Friday after lunch to Monday morning, so I couldn't go home Saturday or Sunday because I couldn't actually go home until I could dump the truck Monday morning. I don't have that problem anymore as I have a private parking place at a local business owned by my neighbor, but I still won't clean the truck on my time.

I can't clean the truck when I'm in it. I take EVERYTHING OUT every single time, other than my TV and microwave. I don't just do a quick vacuum. I vacuum the floor. remove the huge Volvo floor mats that weigh a ton, get them outside, clean them with soap, hang them to dry, vacuum UNDER the mats in the truck, then shampoo the entire floor front to back side to side. I then wipe down every hard surface with disinfectant. I remove all food from all fridge and freezers, wipe all surfaces inside each with disinfectant, plus I move all removable parts from the fridge and freezers and bring them inside the house to wash in my dishwasher. I wipe out the microwave, clean all inside glass. I can't possibly do all this while I'm in the truck. The only thing I can do on a 34 is a quick vacuum. I don't do laundry when I'm out for a month, so when I get home, I've weighed it, I have 42lbs of dirty laundry in my bag. And that's JUST the laundry. Not the food, not anything else. Yes, on my day before leaving, I pack 25-27 sets of clothes and have 35-40 prepared meals placed in the truck.

It might be specific, but I give them 3.5 weeks to get it done. They give me very specific delivery and pickup times and I'm expected to do what I need to to get the job done. So I hold them to the same standard. And all of this was discussed with the recruiter who agreed to it, before I went work for them. I told her I needed to be home before noon because I clean the truck. She said fine. I am holding them to the agreement. Don't agree to it to get me on then after I'm on, don't agree to it. I don't play those games.

 

No, if I drive that day, it's not considered home time. If I wake up in the truck, it's not put toward my home time. So if I say I get 5 days at home, and I get home at 10am and clean the truck until 4pm, I cleaned it on THEIR time, not mine. My time starts the next day.

I would be doing laundry if I worked a 9-5 job anyway, so I expect to do that on home time, but not busting my butt cleaning their truck. The rest of the stuff benefits me, that only benefits them.

 

I am working without compensation. I never said I wasn't. I only said that I was ok with it, as long as it's not ON MY TIME, TOO.

I agree. They don't understand that coming out of home time it's hard, after waking up late for a few days in a row, to suddenly get up at 2am leaving out of the house so I tell them 5am. I can do that. But when I say 5am, that means I can LEAVE THE HOUSE at 5am to go GET THE TRAILER and then leave. So don't give me a pick up at 6am in Baton Rouge an hour and a half away. I'm 15 min or so from the trailer, 10 min pretrip, take my dog to pee, etc.

That has only been a problem when they gave me a 4am pickup leaving out of hometime. However, it was a long trip to like Seattle or something, so I went ahead and took it rather than turn it down. That's too much meat on the bone to pass up.

 

I can't do that, I live out in the country. My neighbor is a half mile down the road and giving me free parking for my truck at their store. I'm not lugging bags of crap down the road like that. They can get me home on Tuesday.

It's not the quantity of trash, it's the type. When I cook for the truck, I throw my food scraps in the trash. Chicken bones, onion skins, etc. That stuff becomes DISGUSTING after sitting in a can for a month. So I need it gone. I'm paying for the service. I'm going to use it. I also sometimes have large things that take up the entire can.