Quick question about routes

no you do not get to pick where loads go more or less if you want to be regional or over the road. yes you do get a 100 dollars to deliver to new york city.

 

It's where the customers ship to that generally dictate where the trucks go. It's tough for a carrier to say "We'll take your Texas freight, bit we don't want your NYC freight". Especially when freight was as slim as it was. Major shippers want carriers that haul freight, not pick and choose where they want to go.

 

I'm still looking for where it says you choose where you go.

 

They say they will not force you to go to nyc but I have never had to find out. I only ever picked up a load that went to nyc once and i swapped it out in Ohio with a driver that lived over there going home and took his load back to Wisconsin. I know we have some drivers that just love going there for the extra money and they seem to be the ones that get there alot.

 

To put it very simply....Millis IS a forced dispatch company, however the statement is correct about NYC. You will not be "forced" to go there and as spanky mentioned, the drivers that live in that area are usually the ones that take those loads.
As I tell ALL my students...take what they give you and you will be very happy here, try to pick and choose your loads and you won't.
dbanning264, depending on how you look at it....YEP, NYC sux because of the congestion but getting around really isn't that bad once you learn how it's laid out.

 

You get a load - you take that load and deliver it! No matter what. I have been rolling now for almost 11 months and have never questioned a load or refused a load in any way. Hell, I dead headed for 200 miles to pick up a load that only went 1 mile away to the customer. I didnt ask why - I just did it. The next load I got was over 1K miles.

I know some that have/do - and those are the ones wondering why they dont get enough miles.

Greg and my OTR trainer embedded in me to "Keep the left door and my mouth shut and run"! I have continued to do just that and it's working well for me so far.