If you can’t understand how driving those miles would have made me late in the end you might want to actually put it to pen and paper till you do. It’s pretty simple common sense, but this thread isn’t even about that.
Good to hear you're not in for a safety meeting. Fyi EVERYBODY gets called into safety here sooner or later. Not a big deal. You spend a day at the terminal for a one on one sit down and a group meeting which satisfies your annual requirement to stay eligible for quarterly bonus. Course if you're called in you loose the bonus for that quarter and your bonus pay gets reset to the starting level. Stings if you've been clean for several years and have to start over.
I've been given a 900 mile deadhead before. They wanted me to reposition from a walmart dc in Hermiston OR to one of our terminals in SoCal so they could find me some freight, because there was nothing in my home terminal's planners' jurisdiction. Sometimes they just have to pay you a bit less to drive a bunch of empty miles so that they can minimize the amount of money they're losing. Remember, they make money the same way you make money: when the truck is moving
When I was on a John Deere dedicated account, exactly half of my miles were deadhead. Pick up a combine in the quad cities, deliver it, bounce back to the QC. From Baltimore or Corpus Christi were probably the longest.
LOL, Friend of mine drove for the big John Deere dealer here in Fairbanks, he had some major deadhead in every trip. lol
San Diego-Albuquerque was my longest D.H. I once was privy to J.B. Hunt deadheading about 30 trucks to Ok. from Denver. (re-positioning) Sometimes its drivers, sometimes trailers.
