Stay away from JCT (John Christer Trucking)

Ever here the saying "keep on truckin" that's what it's all about.Getting miles makin' money.I'm not a big believer in lease to own but, if you decide to go there then you want miles to pay for the truck. A lot of company's call you to ask you to run the trip. Yeah, it's illegal for them to ask when there isn't enough time LEGALLY to get there but, your there to make money for them and you. If you start in with out of hrs. and stuff like that they will give the ld to someone who will do it . And maybe start cutting you back because you won't run. That's what loose leaf is for. Make it legal no matter how many pages it takes. If you honestly get too tired pull over, sleep . Just get it there. It sure beats sitting in a trk. stop making no money.

 

Unfortunately, almost all trucking companies are requiring the driver to have a cell phone. Some are paying 7 to 10 dollars a week for the use.

 

Roadmedic,

We are required to have a cell phone so my company provides one and pays the bill. They only talk to you if you have gone over your minutes. I think we get 1000 anytime minutes and if you go over that, you are talking too much and not paying attention to your job.

tammytell,

If you have to work for a company and have to falsify logs to make money, you are working for the wrong employer. "Keep on trucking" is one thing but not at the expence of a huge fine. As for cutting back the driver who cannot legally complete the run, my answer is to find a company that pays hourly. Again, as for sitting at a truckstop without pay, find a company that pays hourly.

Today was a lot of driving but not any real work. Hooked up one hose at the customer and let it gravity feed into their tank. 379 miles and 12 hours of work from 0300 to 1500. Total gross $330.96

There is something better out there if you look for it.

Drive safe

 

All-rite people! Gather around the teacher now...I'm going to explain "trucking" to you and i'm going to K.I.S.S. it so that you can understand it, OK?? Here we go...

MILES = MONEY!!! BOTH FOR YOU AND THE COMPANY!!!
There that wasn't so hard to understand now was it?

You have to come to realise that when you go to work for an OTR company, you are NOT working FOR them as much as you are working WITH them. It is not so much an "employer/employee" thing as much as it is a PARTNERSHIP type of thing. They GET the freight and you DRIVE the freight. It takes BOTH of you TOGETHER, each of you doing what you do best, so that BOTH of you can get PAID for the job(trip)!!

About that "huge fine" that mrs. tammytell is afraid of. There are VERY few DOT cops that will have or even TAKE the time to start comparing BOLs against your comic book/s to see if you been cheating. If you have a reefer on your wagon, HE KNOWS you are cheating! It's just that simple. ALL he wants to see are clean, neat and correct log sheets for the last eight days. Learn the art of loose leafing and run all the miles you WANT to run. DO NOT keep your reciepts and copies of BOLs with you, mail them home DAILY. Request that they NOT stamp the time and date on the drivers copies of the BOL at the shippers window. You would be surprised at how many shippers will not if asked. And don't be afraid of the "big bad deisel cop", Truth is, they are realy on our side, Kinda like your daddy...making sure you are keeping everything streight and legal look'n, so he don't have to "spank" you.making sure that you appear to be LEGALY doing your job. Even checking on you if you are parked in the emergancy lane along the way, just to see if you are ok. And will help you or get you help if he cain't. I had a deisel bear help me once, My dad and I was on the shoulder with a busted reefer, we were 60 miles out in nowhares-ville at 0300 Saturday morning.we had a frozen load that was thawing quickly in the heat! After not being able to get some help within A resonable time frame he stripped down to his T-shirt and we got greasy to the elbows, about 2 hours latter it was running and he left, and so did I. and he never did ask me about or for my papper work.

HOW ABOUT THIS GUYS!!!

Hourly pay for OTR? .... OH YEAH, RIIIIIITE!!!!

 

actually WJB is right,unless you get one with a hard on for your outfit. so many posts about not making money,not getting home,etc. he's right,you've got to know how to "make it work".that's truckin

 

When I drove, I couldn't really adhere to the 10-hour rule, as my body doesn't work on a 24-hour clock. I work on a 28-hour clock. I get 8 hours of sleep and then go at it 20 hours. Sometimes I drove 15 hours straight before I got tired. I made the adjustment and never delivered late.

One must learn to milk the system. That's the trick to making money in OTR, really. Running it (mildly) illegal and making it look legal.

I remember I used to keep my receipts in sealed FED-Ex packages. I also once bought a rifle at a Cabela's and had 'em package it up like I was going to mail it. In those cases, I put my parents' mailing address on the packages. What, the DOT was going to open my parents' mail in an inspection? No DOT guy ever even asked me about the packages. I never even had one look in my truck in the 3 years I drove.

Of course, all bets are off if you have a wreck. If the lawman needs to pin blame on you, he will go straight for your log record. Sure, it may look correct, but any law enforcement agency can dig up any logbook lie if it wants to badly enough. You have to weigh this risk if you're fudging.

 

When Did I Say Anything About A Big Fine? I Said In Short , Quit Whining... Keep On Truckin.

 

that was one of the best posts i have read since being on this forum

i wish other companies and drivers understood that

its about working together to get a job done

not treating the drivers like dirt, not treating your company like they are out to get you, but its a team effort

again, i wish more companies and drivers thought like that

thanks for a good post

 

Any of you super truckers ever hear of what's called a "Deposition"?

It's like a miniature trial. It's done when civil suit is filed, big dollars at stake. There will be two attorneys at least and couple of investigators. Sometimes there is a cute little court stenographer, but nowadays, usually some pimply geek with a video camera.
For starters, the opposing side is going to know about half of the answers, even before they ask you a question.
They are going to start with your training and it better match your DAC and/or what you put in a long forgotten job application.
Then they are going to rip your log book to shreds if you ever "misentered" some numbers.
And when they catch you in a fib, you will see their fangs come out.
They will correlate fueling, everything to whats on your log.
And if you make a habit out of "Misentering", they will find it. You will be sitting there looking like a fat dumb pumpkin. It's been reported that the 'deponent<s>', that's the subject being questioned, have thrown up, voided their bowels, wet themselves etc, etc, etc.
Your employer?
He don't care his insurance is going to cover it. Just a cost of doing business. But everything is said and done, your statements will be typed up and a copy sent to the District Attorney for his use.
Think you can handle prison?
Especially if your marked as someone who killed a child in a accident?
Those cons have standards you know.

And yes, do work with your employer. Clean up when you meet the customer. Watch those back tires for smoke etc ...
But risk a prison term?

 

Partnership:a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal;


Employee: An individual who provides services for compensation to an employer and whose duties are under the control of the employer

This would be your average company employee who is paid for services rendered and is a "at will" employee with no control over the day to day operations of the company they are hired to work for.


If the company thumbs it's nose at the Federal regulations they are supposed to adhere to, then you should be a "team player" and do the same? In the interest of everyone making money?

If I doctor my logs it is because I choose to do it for my benefit,and at my risk. Not because I was diluted into thinking the company would have my back, because I thought I was more then then just the hired help. If that was the case, then I would not need to worry about logs because the company would pay the fines, since I was their partner in crime. Right?

I don't need the money bad enough to drive more then 11 hours a day and work more then 14, for any company. If you do, then you need to find a job that pays better IMO.

This is why they have to regulate the heck out of driving OTR. Some people just won't play by the rules unless you force them to, ie your average OTR trucking company.