It's all coming back to me why people quit pulling reefers

You may just have had a bad run, or perhaps I was just going to the "good " warehouses all in all I never really had any real issues, or perhaps things just don't bother me as much each to their own I suppose.

 

By the fall, I'll be done pulling reefer. The dedicated account I was brought into claimed 3000-3200 miles per week, which I knew was high, but I figured at least 2800 would be easy.. NOPE. Delays at the pickup/unload cost me 1-2 days a week minimum. My average paycheck right now is a joke when you consider time spent literally living at work and not being paid. I wont even say the number, it's so embarrassing.. It's a joke.

And detention is a fools fight which barely pays about 1/8 of what I make when the wheels are rolling.. reefer just isnt worth it for a company driver.. at least with the company I'm with, which I chose because they were local to where I live and am from so I could be closer to the family and my former fiancee.. but you can't ever leave the truck because if you do, you make nothing obviously.. BUT at the same time, I stay on the truck and sometimes make nothing. It literally hurts to type this.

I'm going to be done with OTR honestly. I have a bachelors degree and two certificates on top of my CDL so I have options.
I want to meet a lady and get married and have a kid someday soon and I just dont see how dating again can happen being home only 3 days a month. Even if it means I'm done driving, so be it. When my company repeatedly gives me 3 days to run 900 miles and tells me it's because "appointments are slim and freight is bad," I'd rather work a local job and be home every night.

 

Time for a career change by the sounds of it.Do it man.

 

Ok, where's that one reefer guy who never
Had to wait at a dock in 10 years.
Never had rejected freight,
Got paid 30 bucks an hour detention, all the time,
Never been screwed out of a penny of his time.

Always does drop and hook,
Never had to stand in a zero degree warehouse at 2am,
And count the freight as they loaded it.
If by chance he did, his company paid him a hundred bucks
For his time.

Never had to sweep out the trailer,
Never had to wait for a washout,
Never had to wait behind 50 trucks at 1am,
Because they all have the same appointment time.
He was allowed to skip the line and go right to the front. Lol.

Now we all know that's a bunch of bull.
But there's always one who never,ever has one delay
Or problem pulling his reefer.

I know he's on here somewhere.

 

Ran reefer for 2.5 years. Now that I run a dry van, I’ll never go back!
Nasty, disease infested chicken farms with raw chicken juice everywhere.
At least once a week 6 plus hour load or unload time
90% of all loads live loaded / unloaded
Over 50% of delivers in the middle of the night
Rudest shippers and receivers you’ll encounter
Jipped out of most all detention pay.
75% of loads are hot and The stars must align to get it there on time.
The noise
Wash outs
Just tired all the dang time.

 

I am a rookie but instantly recognize the CheapNgreedy Corp Cheerleading team that rushes in whenever someone raises valid complaints, pitfalls of any work, its always pathetic sneers with hits like 'they took our jerbs' 'be happy you were given bootstraps' 'I do X Y Z like a superman and can do it 24/7/365 till the end of time, right from this slightly above min/poverty level job sitting in this s hitty office' If no one complained about the condition of humanity living in caves we would still be living in caves. Trucking deals with rich and clueless corporate @ wipes who think their life and time is all important and everyone else is a ####roach. The next thing for CheapNgreedy is to import the rest of the 7 billion people in to America but even then the conditions will be the same, the problems not going away, I can guarantee 95% will say f this being hand to mouth along with the horrible conditions. 'Don't ever dare to complain, think about your wife and kids, your not changing anything, keep your head down, it is what it is, you cant fight CheapNGreedy Inc etc etc.'

 

Whew,,,feel better?

 

wegmans in Pottsville pa is very good, haven’t done Rochester.

I despise Bozzuttos…