Help with Roehl and trip planning

A whole Roehl forum?

 

Very first load, she asks, 'do you know how to trip plan?' She said take the miles and divide by 50 and add the ten hours- 12 hours, and there was no factor of 1.1. And, everything is new right down to how to manipulate that lock that goes on the trailer or the leaking jug of antifreeze in my side compartment plus I have to do paper and electronic logs which I can hardly fathom.

I complained and said I need more time and she gave me a few extra hours on the first load which was good because I didn't get there too early.

I gather she was a super trucker back in the day. But, like the above post where I was advised that you log it one way and run it another, the electronic log cuts out a lot of that and she seems to be dispatching me as if I still have all that wiggle room, and I don't.

And, when I spoke to her boss and tried to gain some concessions? (45 mph planning, new dispatcher...) None. Strawmen arguments, moving targets and obfuscation.

Not sure where you draw the line on a shorter run but it was 9 runs in 10 working days (plus the day in a motel plus the day on detention).

 

600 miles per day? When you are unloading and loading every day?

How many of my meals am I expected to eat behind the wheel?

 

OK, item by item. I've tried to gain concessions, so far, nothing.

This thing about communicating delays, I don't know if I'm getting it. If you have a couple extra hours on a load you are in position to absorb most of the uncertainties I itemized on the first page. I don't know what is going on here. Are they taking away that couple of extra hours and then expecting me to communicate a delay every time something doesn't work out perfectly? Is it different here in that regard?

What does it mean to agree on an eta? You get a preplan and you accept it or you non commit and it sounds like somebody is going to be unhappy if you do a bunch of non commits. I never gathered they were soliciting my opinion on the eta?

I don't mean to come off snarky, it's just that I've been really frustrated and angry. I don't live off filterless Marlboros and Monster energy drinks trying to deliver as much freight as I humanly can. I do see now that my desire to pull into a TA and get a work out in one of their exercise rooms a few times a week is subject to scorn and laughter...

 

Yeah, I just saw DAC and thought it was something else. I've just started reading over the posts there, it's pretty interesting, I'm going to read more when I get time.