PAM Driver - Ask me anything.
Discussion in 'PAM' started by TwistedHellbilly, Sep 8, 2012.
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So, the hubs has been with PAM for 6 months now and it's been an absolute nightmare. Huge pay cut, they'll tell him he has a load and then cancel, dispatch him on a load and then cancel, send him in to maintenance for repairs and then cancel, it's ridiculous. DM is a total tool, and if he got eaten by a giant lizard, not a single tear would be shed. Now Central wants them (he's a team) back, but now PAM is saying they won't release them because they're a special hazmat team. Total crap. They sure have a crappy way of treating their "special" drivers...
I can't wait for this nightmare to end. -
mattbh23 Thanks this. -
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I agree with that. I picked up my tractor in El Paso. Neither of the front console power outlets work. I took it over to the "shop" in EP. The old guy there fiddled with it for about 10 minutes and declared that he "didn't have the right tools" and that I'd need to take it to Irving.
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I don't know if that's true. I was in Irving for a b- service. And they wanted it done pretty bad. Held me up there for a day and a half over a chip in the windshield. That would fly with the dot.
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I just thought I'd drop in an update on my recent activities.
I'd heard rumors that P.A.M.'s solo drivers spent a lot of time waiting for loads. That is soooooo not what I'm seeing. I have been running my arse off the past 3 weeks since I got off the Wal-Mart pop-up. And now I finally got a load I can't deliver on time because of the 70 hour clock. It was bound to happen as hard as I've been going. So I just sent a message to the 2nd shift dispatcher advising of the situation. Here is how the conversation is going.
Me: "I don't have the hours to deliver this load to Laredo by 1700 tomorrow. Pls advise if we need to repower or change the delivery to Sat a.m."
2nd shift guy: "I can't change deilvery. Why can't you make that time?"
Me: "I am 10 hours from Laredo, I will have 8.5 hours available tomorrow"
2nd shift guy: "when do you get hours back??"
Me: "hours are recovered at midnight"
2nd shift guy: "And how many do you have tomorrow"
Now as a general rule, I don't have conversations with morons. So at this point I stopped responding. I've done my job and advised my company of the situation. If they don't have the capacity to understand and make adjustments, not my problem -
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