I may regret this... But ask someone on the inside!

As for long PP's when you are due hometime and close to home, sometimes the planner is looking to see if you would rather take the run or go home. Sometimes drivers will choose to stay out if they can make money, especially OO's.

The short haul live load stuff... well, you know.. those loads suck, but the customer has freight to move, and they pay us to do it. We cant pick and choose. Well, if we are overbooked we can and will. Sometimes there are more of those loads than we have daycabs to handle. Plus consider that we have daycabs that are in intermodel divisions, dedicated divisions, etc. So while you may see 30 daycabs in a terminal, there may only be 7 or 8 devoted to short-haul division 005 work.

I have a hard time believing that a driver was threatened with termination for not wanting to do a short haul load. If its true, he should have called his FM or TM. Now, if he was the only driver in the area, I can see them really wanting the driver to do the short haul stuff, but threats dont do it. I usually offer cash myself.

The other pay stuff, really you need to get with your DM on that. I have nothing to do with pay and honestly I do not even know what drivers make, other than there is a sliding pay scale.

 

If you know that the load will probably be ready, unless you have specific instructions to not be early, as we do with some customers, by all means go for it! However, if you call the shipper and they say it'll be ready, and you get there and its not, well, you will need to wait. And since your dispatch said it picks up at noon, then you will need to wait even longer for detention pay.

Why not enjoy a couple of extra hours with your family?

 

Yeah I will respond... still trying to work out how much anonymity I am willing to give up

 

It depends... Some JIT customers, especially air freight, will figure out how long it should take to the hour, and say "pick up by this time, deliver by this time". Others will use the 500 miles a day standard, and still others will go by when their customer needs the product. Thats why you might pick up a load that picks up on the 7th, and delivers 1000 miles away on the 15th. Its nearly all dictated by the customer, and I am sure they all have a different matrix that they use.

 

I agree that would be nice. When I was a driver, one of the companies I drove for actually had it in the load assignments that came over the Qualcomm, a "parking, Y/N" section. Wasnt always accurate, but gave you an idea anyways.