Ca to tn Amazon load

I agree that's an outrageous amount of waiting unless someone pays you something for each day or hour of waiting. Also, Memphis is kind of a bad place for truck parking if you are east of West Memphis, Arkansas where the several truck stops are located. I always operated in and around Memphis with the assumption it's a high crime area. It's one of the highest crime areas in TN. Of the truck stops in West Memphis, AR I would avoid the Loves. I think the Petro charges for parking and the Flying J doesn't charge for parking. I think the Flying J is the easier to get into and out of. Hopefully I don't have that exactly reversed.

 

I'd expect $50 or 75 per day, minimum. Plus the cost of any paid parking. I think my tanker company paid me $125 per day.

 

Usually Detention pay is hourly waiting and layover pay is daily waiting. Detention pay is often a per hour rate of pay and Layover is a lump sum per day. Often a full 24 hours of detention will be more than a layover day rate, so the companies I worked for would pay the lower of the Detention rate or the Layover rate. I would calculate how much you would make driving in a typical day, if you know, and then compare that daily pay to the Detention pay and the Layover pay just to see how much you might be missing. I would not volunteer to stay in the truck for multiple days, but I might not complain about it if I was certain I was getting paid Detention or Layover for the multiple days of waiting. If the company pays for a hotel and pays any money per day of waiting I would call that fair enough for me. I also would always call to verify the delivery date and time on an Amazon load before I left the shipper, if you do anymore Amazon loads.

On that long of a trip there is no good excuse to not call on day 1 of the trip to verify the delivery appointment. I would do that for every load I hauled, but you do you.

 

Yes. If you don't have enough hours to drive all the way back to CA without taking a 34, I learned to pick where you stop for the 34 reset at the place YOU WANT TO STOP and not drive until you have used everything but your last 3 minutes and then get stuck at whatever dumpy truck stop or rest areas that is nearby. If you actually wait that many days to deliver, you will get a 34 reset so long as you don't do ANY On-Duty tasks while you are waiting t deliver, you can't even log On-Duty to fuel the truck as that will interrupt your 34 reset. I'd fuel the truck the first waiting day or the last waiting day and be Off-Duty all of the days between First and Last day.

 

I have had the same thing happen at Amazon. The one in Joliet, IL.
I was 30 minutes early for the delivery and was told it had been canceled and would need to be rescheduled.

After a couple hours my company had me t-call the load at a nearby terminal so I could keep rolling.

That, and the 6-8 hour unloads make me avoid Amazon loads whenever possible.

 

Hope they are paying you for lost time/wages while you sit home. Ignorant to work for outfits like that, while ignoring what megas have to offer rookies.