Gettin Tired Of The Lazy Don't Give a Crap Bums

LOL...having someone out here with me is great. I enjoyed being out all alone...but it is better with a friend....which is way different than a mentor or team partner. except she can snore louder than the KW sitting idling next to me....lol...plus I am stuck on the top bunk...err...good thing she does all the trailer inspections and can sweep

 

I just considered it being considerate of the load...

 

The only time sweeping a trailer ever bothered me was when I was doing some local runs mixed into my normal hauls. Seems the locals stops were always a mess. I chatted with my DM about (gripeing, not really expecting a fix), and he told me to add 1/2 an hour to the local deliveries to compensate for sweep out (short locals at $12/hr). I would send him a Q message with total time on load for billing. He then asked if I counted pretrip, post-trip time on the hourly. As he put it, "if they're gonna use you for local deliveries and eat up your clock, then you get paid like a local driver". Lord, I miss that DM (Sergio).

 

If they wanna pay me to do it fine no problem. But if not then no way! Kinda like taking their truck to get washed. If they want to pay me to take it to the blue beacon and for my time while there fine. If not then I got better things to do.

 

They do pay you to do it. It's part of finishing the load. Using your logic, why do you "bother" to scan in your paperwork? It's not specifically itemized on your pay stub. Neither is PTI. Or drop/hook. Or load/unload. So why do you do all of this stuff and not complain it's not paid separately?

Sweeping your trailer falls under the same reasoning.

I suppose you're the guy who refuses to change lights and wiper blades too. Not your job, right? How much sitting do you do because the load isn't worth your time?

If you think it's not your job to clean the trailer out, wait until you pick up a Budweiser or Coors load and try to drop a dirty empty. You will be turned away at the gate and told to go sweep your trailer. Don't have a broom? Guess you should have thought of that when you were at the receiver and could have taken 5 minutes to do it there. Refuse to clean out the trailer? You will lose the load and most likely get a writeup.

Which reminds me...I need to get a broom stick while I'm here at Walmart. Mine broke the other day...

 

My 2009 volvo had a sticker on the window that said "You are responcible for the safe and cleanliness of this vehicle"....that includes inside and out. Maybe you didnt have a sticker, so you're exempt. But i bet if you read your driver handbook carefully, it says it in there.

I for one handwashed my co. truck when i was home and weather was good. Yeah, company truck..who cares...dont really have that much 'pride' in a company truck, but i dont want to drive around in a truck that looks like crap, either.


Injun...like the driver i heard the other day saying "its not my job to change out an air line". Yeah okay buddy. Use some common sense and change it. will take you 30 min. They'd rather wait a day to get the truck into the shop. Some just dont like to get their hands dirty. They'd hire a lumper just to open/close the trailer doors, i bet.

 

i used tp pay for the company truck to be washed--yes i am weird that way but i hate dirty equipment and we had very nice stuff--when it was clean--but we couldnt get it washed on the road--just back in the yard so if you were out for awhile--it could get pretty nasty--but there were people who wouldnt wash the truck--cause "they didnt own it"--nothing worse than seeing a nice chromed up truck with months of grime and bugs on and its rusting away

 

Did you lose control and have a hard landing when this happened?