Taking your truck away just because you are in shop status

I think texas-nana was dead on point here--you know why you want to keep your own truck but sometimes you gotta communicate it to their benifit. Either way- you want good equipment but just need to go at it from another angle. Good luck to ya!

 

THANK YOU!!!! Seriously, thank you for understanding what I was saying.

 

Lancaster shop again shows worst in class performance, no love for that place here.

 

I gotta say, I'm with bluebonn here----i won't drive a scummy piece of ####. I also would have stood my ground and would have walked if necessary.

I can sense that bluebonn is kinda like me in the respect that I don't deal well with mega-corporations and their sometimes ignorant decisions. Once a company gets to a certain size, the bureaucratic BS is more than I'm willing to put up with.

 

fire the shop personal, then have the big guy start buying kenworths only thats what millis doe's, then those other truck drivers that hate swift and beat you up all day will stop, now everyone will want to work there, BUT NOOO, must buy the cheapest truck for the botton line, but there still in 300 million in DEBT, close some of those terminals and get sevice done at the truckstop in route saves money, less down time, better equipment, and rise rates 10 percent, NOT 2 or 3, if the freight go's in a swift trailer the customer (pays top dollar), yes there loss 1 or 2 clients, but after this down sizing where are they going to go, best in class means, best fleet, best in service, you can not have this with botton rates or average rates, must be (TOP RATES)

 

Nana sometimes they don't understand what your saying so you have to put in on their level so they do. Your advice was right on cue. For instance-my truck has a few issues as i mentioned before-speedometer/odometer not working/check engine fault--all these have something to do with each other--anyways they saying my truck is reading high idle-so i had to explain that maybe they getting a false reading from the fact the speedomoter is always sitting on 0. But maybe they fix it in a couple weeks. LOL

 

I dont blame you for not wanting to drie an ugly truck--i think they gave me one of the ugliest ones they had. LOL It looks like some wolfrats took a chunk outta the right fender on mine but the inside was really clean when i got it and figured prolly wont have to have it for long. I will work with it for now-just wish i had working gauges and cruise control. LOL Im sure he will have it fixed or find me something else but told me he would wait till i go home so i dont sit at shops for days losing income.

 

That makes too much sense............the non driver bean counters don't see it that way.

 

Blame it on PMS if ya want

I just don't get it, and I still don't. Obviously I never will. A truck is a tool provided by the company to pull a trailer down the road. Sleeper's can be cleaned (personally that's the second thing I do with any truck I'm assigned to) and who cares about cracks and dents in the outside? I sure don't understand.

But that leads to lightening things up a bit- I had a truck for about a month and half that was totally bashed and banged up. One morning when I woke up, rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and pulled open the curtains, I realized there were 2 parking spaces left empty in the entire lot- the ones on either side of me

Oh, man, did I ever laugh! Perhaps I should have held on to that one; everyone was afraid of me when I was driving it!

Anyway, I'm not trying to bash anyone, and I apologize if my comments came out hard. But I get confused over what normal people do, and I can't help but question it.