Freymiller Bound;Reefer Madness Begins!!!

I am quite annoyed with my new dm right now, so I don't have many nice things to say. I have never had a dm that didn't care about his drivers until this one. A couple of examples:

In the past 10 months, I did 3 repowers. In the last 2 weeks alone, I have done 5. I have had loads swapped, cancelled, repowered, etc...hell, I had 4 load assignments in 1 day!

Today was the icing on the cake. I repowered a guy in Gulfport, MS yesterday with a load due in Grand Prairie today. I had 3 hours left on my clock when I repowered him. I drove them off and took my 10. I started driving at 0130 this morning, took a nap on the way and arrived in Dallas at around 1300. When I was empty, I had 1:30 left on my clock and it was running. I called my dm, told him that I was out of hours, needed a break, and was tired. He said "no problem." not 10 minutes later, I get a qualcomm message and him calling my phone. They need me to run to Lancaster, pick up a load, and take it to Kroger in Keller by 1600. I told him that I would do my best, but that I most likely didn't have the hours to make it. He tells me to grab it anyways. When I grab the load, I called him back and told him that I couldn't do it because I didn't have the time left to do it (I was going to be about 15 minutes short.) He told me to log it as off duty driving...which is illegal. I took the load, but called safety to let them know what happened. I ended up just blowing my hours since that's better than falsifying my logs.

What I should have done is to put my foot down and flat out refuse to take it, but the bottom line is that my dm should have never put me in that position in the First place. Once he saw the load come across his board, he should've immediately called the planner and told him that I didn't have the hours, and couldn't run it...but he didn't. Instead, he wanted me to run illegally to get the load there knowing full well what would happen if I got into an accident or got pulled over. It shows an absolute lack of caring for the drivers, and shows me that, in his view, moving freight is more important than the safety and well being of his drivers. Needless to say, I am in the process of requesting a new dm.

Sorry for the rant, but that's the best update I can muster for now.

 

take it from a former freymiller driver (5yrs)...next time call across the lot to safety...that's usually all it takes...

 

Here is the kicker. My former dm used to be a driver...but even above that, he is a former Sheriff Detective! Telling a driver to run illegally does not bode well to his tenure as a law enforcement detective. On top of that, being that he is a former driver, he should know how drivers want to be treated and what they expect. Anyways, I'm getting a new dm...and from the way things sounded, he might not be there much longer anyways.

 

I never have service failures either, but I do it LEGALLY. I will not put my career and the well being of my family in jeopardy for a load. It only takes one time...a drunk driver to run into you, a cop that's feeling frisky...no thank you. They put e logs in this truck for a reason...and if dispatch can't figure out how to plan loads around that, then that is their problem.

 

look out for yourself. If you get violations or get in a wreck you may not be able to drive a truck. Or worse. Keep your record clean. And you can go elsewhere if necessary. Protect you first.