So by the company dispatching a late appointment load, the tradeoff is if I get stuck at the customer for 6 hours, I won't be getting detention cause I was "late"? That's crazy.... Plus I didn't know companies had software that warn them about loads and stuff.
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On the software side any TMS system has warnings for late, non-feasible dispatch, out of route, excessive dead head, and other items all set by company parameter.Friend, Tanker_82, nextgentrucker and 1 other person Thank this. -
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As an OTR driver, sometimes I assist regional areas with a load or two that originates and terminates under their particular umbrella prior to being dispatched on something outbound that sends me to a different part of the country. Those assignments typically involve a live load or live unload. Whether or not you want to refer to those as “OTR Division” loads is a matter of interpretation. I’m an OTR driver, and since I’m the one hauling the load, one might consider it an “OTR Division load.” On the other hand, someone else might disagree and call it a “Regional load” that I’m just helping them out with. Hopefully that makes sense. It’s really too broad of a question to answer in my opinion since OTR drivers help out where we are needed at times.
Here is an example of OTR at Indian River:
Deadhead to McAllen, TX and pickup a preloaded tank at our Mission terminal. Drive 1,500+ miles and deliver it in Riverside, CA.
From there, deadhead 200+ miles to Tulare, CA and drop that dirty tank at the tank wash. Pickup a pre-washed tank that will be sitting there waiting for you. Now drive 15 minutes over to Tipton, CA and pickup orange juice. Drive 1,000+ miles up the road and drop it in Spokane, WA. Week #1 is over now. You turned in about 2,700 miles.
Latch on to an empty dirty one and deadhead 150+ miles to Prosser, WA. Drop the dirty and pickup another pre-washed tank that is there waiting for you.
Now deadhead 250 miles to Salem, OR and pickup cranberry. Haul it 3,000 miles across the country to Arcadia, FL and drop it. If there isn’t an empty, go ahead and bobtail out of there 75 miles to Winter Haven. Week #2 is now over. You turned in about 3,500 miles.
Once you’re in Winter Haven, go inside and get the paperwork from dispatch for the preloaded tank that you’re picking up on the loaded line. After you get hooked up to it, drive 1,000 miles up I 95 and unhook it at the drop yard in Wilmington, DE.
Now deadhead 45 miles to our terminal in Bensalem, PA. Hook onto the preloaded tank that is there waiting for you and haul it 1,400+ miles to Sulphur Springs, TX.
Once you get empty, deadhead 600 miles back down to McAllen. Week #3 is now over. You turned in about 3,000 miles.
Get ready to leave McAllen, TX with another preloaded tank that might go back to California, possibly Florida, Spokane, or maybe even New Jersey.
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I feel like one day I'm gonna reach a 700 miles milestone. That "Hrs Gained in 2 Days" line is what I'm gonna get from recap Sunday at midnight?
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Here's my Log for this current week, which I think ends today, I haven't taken a 34 since I started on Wednesday April the 30th, I've been running recap ever since, which I don't get cause I've been running down my clock, I thought for you to get recap you had to run at least 8hrs each day, I still have about 11hrs left on my 70 and I always get some hours back at midnight so I wake up with about 21-22 hours on my 70 everyday so I have a full 14 hours shift everytime. So as long as you have hours left on your 70 on your 8th day, you can keep running recap forever? HOS is confusing sometimes LOL!!Friend Thanks this.
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