Finally home, after 6 weeks OTR

Yup you can lose your truck if you take more than three days off. You can also lose it if you go into shop status. And I'm not talking about days and days in the shop. You can lose it just for a minor repair.

They can take your truck at anytime they wish..

 

it seems to depend on the dm as well. i make every point to be a good company driver. i don't complain, i take every load offered, scan my logs every three to four days, keep my truck running by fixing the little things myself. i run my arse off as long as the freight keeps coming. i try to be the most compliant and obedient worker i can be. but come hometime, i always get the ole' screw you. i might have to request a different dm if the pod can't figure this crap out.

 

They'd never let you take hometime if it were up to them.
I think Phoenix is more than 48 hours and you lose your truck.

 

that's exactly what i started doing. but it still takes them almost a week to route you home anyway, even when you give them early warning of impending hometime. hence my saying screw it, i'm taking my owed days, keep the truck. if i had been let to keep the truck for my requested 3 1/2 days, i would have been rolling three weeks ago instead of jumping through hoops trying to get another one.

 

Yet they can't figure out why they can't retain drivers!

 

yup sooner or later they will learn! I'm have only been here for six months and so far I see trouble with home time even if it is a special request. Losing your truck is just a no no with me and a fast way for me to move onto another carrier.

Why should I go through the trouble of keeping the truck in excellent shape inside and out only for them to take it from me and give me a piece of crap? I don't complain at all until you don't get me home when I ask if it is a special request and you try to take the truck I am assigned away from me just because I am in shop status for a minor repair that should have only taken a few hours instead of days and days.?

Then you take my breakdown pay away from me just because I tell you well you can keep the pay because I am not going to give up the truck. Just crazy!

I dread the day my truck actually has something major go wrong. I hope I am far away from any terminal.

 

Don't bet the farm on that.

I was wanting off for this coming Sunday for the Tennessee Renaisance fair. Being on the shuttle and not regular OTR I may not get it.