Why is.that mistake number 1? Unless the driver is inefficient, lazy and unreliable. Wait. Could those also be reasons a dispatcher wouldn't give out better loads? Hmm. I'm going to have to think on this.
No but ive been around the trucking industry my whole life I got family whos vice presidents of a decent sized company. Percentage pay you take a risk on getting crappy loads with no money
Well TMC average length of haul is only 300-400 miles per load. Once in a while you'll get 500 plus, not very often. You make more on percentage than milage. Lesser of two evils.
Everything is base on your area what am saying your freight lanes good paying freight is on the east coast any thing coming out of the south going up north pays too but everything boils down to one thing your (DM) they can make you or break you
I've been in a lot of hospitals my whole life, hell I was born in one. I don't know #### about medicine. Ed
There's one other person that can make or break you... YOU. I'm getting pretty tired.of reading how it all boils down to your dispatcher, or whatever your company calls them. Can they hurt you? Of course they can, but often they treat drivers exactly how they deserve to be treated. Want to move up the board? Read everything that @TripleSix posts. Bring your A game every day. Reach down and find some sack and do the job better than the next six drivers in line. Make yourself the go to driver. Hard work. The easy way is for the mediocre.
No one wants to take the blame for themselves. It's always the DM that screwed me. Or my manager, or my trainer, or the DoT CDL test guy was an #######. Ed
