Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Creffer probably gets more $$ per mile..for the low mileage loads......yet another reason for so many of them...and maybe new hires get the higher mileage loads..because they are paid less cpm...than a senior driver ..who's maxed out on cpm pay

 

Ding ding ding. We have a winner

 

I would say the majority of my loads are 1200+ mile runs… Now with that said I believe a lot of the dry freight is more regionalized than reefer freight is

 

You're correct that I don't really know you or Shaffer. I just know what you post.

I categorize you as an "Angry Driver" because you started this thread with:

"After Moore got merged with E.W.Wylie, and Wylie couldn't handle my no B.S. attitude when saying what I mean to management... hence their insistance that I said I had resigned when I hadn't."
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And recently said:

"I have already warned Deland that if they don't get their #### together, I will go back to being the driver I was when I was at Crete (when she would have multiple emails about me and my attitude in her inbox every Monday morning)." (post 1024)
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For me, that would be enough to justify termination. But that would expose Shafffer to paying unemployment, so it's cheaper to just ignore your rants and get whatever value they can from you.

You are partially correct when you say "trucking companies make money by moving freight". What's missing from that statement is "profitably". It is often more profitable to have a truck sit on unused hours waiting on freight than to dead head to loads that are ready to move. Even if it isn't more profitable, if minimizing dead head is part of a DM's metrics then they're going to start 'grade grubbing' to make their own performance look better - regardless of how that impacts a driver's pay check.

In short, what is profitable for the company and what is profitable for the driver are not the same. They've made the decision to run your truck in the most profitable way they can, regardless of how you feel about it. There are reasons why the guy above your DM won't transfer you to a new DM, he knows it's not going to make a difference. You suffer from "Main Character Syndrome" - you think your needs and wants matter more than your DM's. Your "if XYZ load is available, then I don't need home time, but if it's not then I do" requests don't make you seem like a team player. They make you look like an opportunist who will throw the DM under the nearest bus.

As a final thought, when I first stumbled into this thread I thought you were a new driver, not a guy with more than a decade on the road. I was making more hauling a dry van coming home every weekend than you were hauling refers staying out months at a time.

 

This dude has worked for a dozen different mega’s and had the same result everywhere he’s been.

 

same i don't know how i was making more money running dry van on regional lanes than he was running reefer for several weeks at a time

 

I do.

You learned how the system worked and made it work for you.

 

And he stays out 8-10 weeks at a time. Even if you hate your wife that would be enough to drive anyone crazy.

 

You’re spot on with regards to this know it all, but you’re incorrect about one point. You’re not eligible for unemployment if you quit, or are fired for cause. You’re only eligible if you are laid off.

 

He’s in debt up to his eyeballs, that’s why he craps bricks if, God forbid, his miles drop below 3000 for a week.

Like I said before, all of his threads are the same: wash, rinse, repeat. And, it’s never his fault.

But it’s funny as hell to follow his follies.