Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I passed a Cretein on 80/90 Ohio Turnpike today. In the little decal on the side of the truck, where it says Years of Service, this driver had 29. After reading this, I have to ask. Do people actually stay there 29 years? Or did they buy the numbers?

 

Recent - I made 75k last year.

 

I’m inclined to believe it. I’ve actually seen a *few* Werner trucks that have “Million Miler” in gold on the door. Hey, power to ‘em if it works for ‘em.

 

They were having a few issues with Peoplegarbage today. It was adding imaginary loads to our load history. They had to work fast to fix/patch that and likely were screwing up everything while trying to fix the Charlie Foxtrot.

 

Heh. I have talked to the two guys that handle most of the Peoplegarbage crap.

They actually want to do some sensible, sane things, but they are limited by Trimble (Peoplenet.)

Personally, I think Crete should hire a Java programmer, and write a complete customer database and communication system app that works on all computers, all operating systems.

Let Peoplenet keep the HOS crap (regulatory issues,) but take everything else away and make it in-house.

A database and forms handling messaging system would not be a challenge to a competent app designer.

If they require verbose commenting and retain uncompiled code, they could modify or hire others to update the app over time.

Java would handle operating system updates due to the nature of the Java virtual machine architecture.

Someone has to be convinced to actually put out some money for a database and communication app that's worth a #### though.

 

There are plenty of mega guys with multiple decades of tenure. About a third of them are top flight guys that learned how to make the system work for them and make bank while still getting home. The next third are decent drivers just marking time until retirement. They found someplace comfortable and will stay long after they should have moved on. The last third are worthless pieces of crud that make a driver hope Gen Z starts getting CDLS. These "drivers" think they know stuff, but don't and they think they're "making good money", but aren't.

 

Also Snack, I did what you at times want to do. Wanted to take a break from otr and do local so put in for hometime, got home, cleaned truck and deadheaded to Wilmer yard and dropped, never even told operations.

Left right at my 2 year anniversary and when I got my last check I was speechless. I did not think they would cash out my unused vacation days cause I got over $2000 added to the last check as vacation. Thought I simply would lose them so this was a nice surprise.

Only been gone 3 weeks and I'm already missing the otr life. I bring home just $700/wk at this class b driving gig but home everyday and off for 2 full days. Just the whole sleep - eat - work 10.5 hours - shower - eat- sleep - repeat, lifestyle a bit hard to adapt to.

If I still find it hard to deal with, then I plan on going back otr but this time might give Shaffer a call but then again I do hate the smell of them meat plants.