Am i wrong here ?

no you weren't wrong for it no load is worth the risk swift dispatchers have been fired for trying to make drivers drive during weather like what we go and the same probly for sni.

 

No not wrong either IMO. Many carriers have an internal policy about missing loads and time off. It makes no exceptions for what you spoke of....it's just the policy like lose assigned truck if off for more than 3 days or fired if you miss load etc.

Only thing I would have done different is not accepted load or make dispatch take load off me. That's where they got you.

In the rawest form you accepted a load and didn't deliver it . Don't matter why not cause you're not dead. The ICA probably wasn't told either and got his arse chewed by the regional boss.

You can probably salvage deal but you will have to go over his head and if you win then work elsewhere or get a different ICA. Any chance you documented the calls like who and date / time ?

Knowing this is how they will act....are they worth it? Might be a good time to realign the business model.

 

It has been my experience as a truck driver you are always wrong even when you are right.

 

Your mistake was not following up with your ica or someone in your ica group, support shift is worthless.

Your options now are going to the head of ica's at your terminal and explaining what happened or just move your truck somewhere else .

By the way you should of went to your truck and sent a message outlining the situation too.
Schenider does a have a your the captain of your ship policy.

I get whether alerts on the QC along with the captain of the ship statement all they ask is you let them know that your shutting down .

 

Things must have changed at Schneider since I left. One quick call to my driver/fleet manager would have put that clown in his place. We used to be told repeatedly not to operate in unsafe conditions. Any load situation like yours should have been strictly over the QualCom to keep both sides honest. Our fleet manager always told us not to get on the phone after hours if we could avoid it unless it involved a accident. I think you handled yourself ok. Definitely call safety and report that "a" hole.

 

What does the ICA term mean? We used to go by driver manger/fleet manager?

 

I remember a incident with JB Hunt. There was a bad snow/ice storm nailing northeast. I went to Emporia to pick up my truck at the terminal and found out that they had assigned me a pre-loaded trailer heading to NH. I Qualcom'd the situation, and I was told by the "after hours" to get the truck as close as I could and wait it out. I refused to take that load because there were about 6 other loaded trailers on the yard that were going to other areas. They refused to take the load off of me and told me to get rolling.

Yeah Right! I wasn't about to be stuck with a few thousand other trucks running around looking for parking. I went back home to Virginia Beach for a couple days. They called me at home and told me that they filed a written warning....or what ever they call it, and told me to get back to Emporia asap! I laughed them off and took a few more days off to go Striper fishing. I hated that company.

 

To the o/p.

As I see it, you did not CYA by maybe perhaps sending a Qualcomm as a record of message sent. Then you did not follow up with someone MORE in authority than the one's you had dealt with. If you liked working there, and was earning some good money, then you really ought to call them and talk to someone that can over-ride/over-rule that Richard Cranium.

You also, from what if I read correctly, you took a load, when you really should have waited longer. As a company driver, I of course do not know the load set up that you as an o/o must go through, but to accept the load, and then not delver it is with some companies a "service failure" as well, and however any particular company handles such, is most likely in your contract.

So your options are to get on the phone with corporate, and explain in full detail or even type it all up nice and neat, and after talking with corporate, send that letter via certified mail, to what else, CYA that you made an attempt to get your job back.

If this fails, (you getting your job back), seek employment else where's and remember to CYA better next time.

 

When the weather doesn't allow me to run (like the road shutdown during the so called blizzard a few weeks ago) I had been communicating with my boss via phone but then after I call him (or night dispatch). I then send a qualcom "per our conversation at xx:00 I cannot complete this load do to safety concerns related to the weather (blizzard conditions) it is unsafe to travel. Will keep you updated and inform you when roads are safe for travel" gota cya