Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I mean if you run the sun belt then it’ll be over sooner rather than later. Self driving trucks already work outside of fog/ice/winds.

 

You guys work at a mega with 4000+ drivers. The planers probably have no idea who the good drivers are. You’re just a number on a screen. It’s much easier to dumb the planning down to the lowest common drivers abilities.

 

Supposed dnh cold storage dallas to wmt north platte after a cluster ## stay away from and boycott heb Houston sh8tsh8w... get there po doesn't register guard / yard dog (only one there) states i dont see any shaffers coming out I need another #... PNET and call... wait...wait...wait go knock knock politely hey I see 2 shaffers are they even preloaded or empty, get told no preloaded trailers here but a few wawas I say what about lumpers or leaders he replied no one's here... wtf for drivers giving up their holidays to try and earn this isn't a nice way of rewarding drivers... call in on a few dropped loaded trailers at wilmer get told to wait for c s r response about issue? You have drivers who's clocks have started clearly a loads not ready or somethings ul instead of staying productive and keeping us moving they'd rather we sit and wait... our cut off is 150 a day wonder what theirs is for chargung detention... its things like this that kill me and when I look at hourly or guaranteed pay etc... otr drivers arent really paid for their time efforts or sacrifices at all... otr is a flawed sector of the industry...

 

There’s dozens of stellar tanker companies and even a few not-so-stellar within 10 miles of Schneider’s Houston bulk yard. I don’t see how anyone would pick Schneider.

 

Are all those other tank yards training people right out of cdl school?

Almost everyone going over to Schneider is doing it because the want to go tanker right out of school and they the only ones that are offering to train.

Heniff I belive is a better choice and hire right out of cdl school but they want you to live within a 50 mile area of a terminal.

But also most don't drive around to see what their options are.

 

I’m going to say to you what was told to me recently, I’m hanging on hoping that the old days show up again.

It’ll never happen. This industry has been dumbed down to what we have today. Both you and I will be long gone and this industry will keep going in the direction it is. All we’ll have is our memories.

 

JohnBoy,

I feel your pain but you are right it will never happen. I retired in 2011 after 42 years and I do not regret it. I saw the writing on the wall and did not like what I saw. Electronic logs instead of paper log books, automatic transmissions instead of manuals, all the cameras and so called safety devices to distract you from being alert. I drove to about 40 of the 50 states and racked up over 3 million accident free miles and glad I did it when things were more driver friendly than now.

I drove almost half those miles in B61 and R model Macks with tri-plex trannies and the Maxidynes made my day. A lot of those were day cabs and my 10 hours off duty were across a piece of 5/8" plywood with a pillow and blanket, no A/C or power steering either. Yet I enjoyed working back then way more than the last few years before my retirement.

I decided to retire at 62 before too many aches and pains caught up and SS went away. As per my avatar pic I drive the pleasure rig now when we want and to where we want and do not have to answer to anyone. I hope everything works out for all you drivers and I'm always looking for drivers to talk to when on the road.

 

When I was driving, I had a recurring dream where I was the truck. Literally had the trailer on my back running up a grade. I still occasionally wake up thinking I heard a knocking on the side of the sleeper and I haven't been behind the wheel in over 3 years.

 

Most of mine are about the winter driving across I-80 in wind snow and Ice and the dispatcher nagging us to hurry up while I passed truck after truck off in the ditch and down the ravine. Only time we ever had someone knock on the side of the sleeper was when a little teen lot lizard (I'm sure she was being trafficked, though that wasn't a word back in 07).. She kept looking with fright to the back of my trailer (half was in the bunk, but I got out to go see what the hooker wanted). I told her that no one in the cab needed anything from her. She looked back to the back and here's these two dudes standing at the back of my truck watching.... Junky nasty truck stop in Hattiesburg.. I went in a bit later and told the clerk... he was VERY blase' about it... kinda made me angry.