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It's also where you get experience, so you don't have to work for outfits that screw you. You'll take some lumps, but once you have more experience you can work for carriers that actually treat their employees well, pay them well, and have low turnover.

 

This a company trailer? Of the few people I know who do pull amazon load, it’s usually D&H.

 

If you left the truck and load at the loves off highway 78 in Memphis. The good news is when you get back the trailer will be empty, bad news is truck will be missing tires and batteries.

 

Why limit yourself? As you are finding out, small companies suck too. At least with a mega they would have had you drop the trailer off at a yard and likely already have a load ready foy you (or anyone) ready to go.

 

And the flip side of that dropped trailer at a yard is that another company driver will have to pick it up, drive 30 miles, and endure the 6-8 hour unload with little to show for it.
A little detention pay is never a match for the miles lost in that same time.

And often times, that load will be given to a driver just coming off home time because they need an empty, and a live unload will give them the mt.

The best option is to refuse any Amazon live unload until they can get their ducks in a row and do things in a timely fashion.

 

Smart move.
But your company should not leave you hanging for something like that.
They should pay for that parking and pay you a boatload for the wait time.

 

Possibly, but not always. A fair few of the better ones has local, hourly drivers to handle stuff like that.

 

Not necessarily, I know several who work at mega companies and are happy, the crashes you see are the newer drivers but if they’ve got 10,000 trucks, odds of a crash go up.

I know some who drive for schneider and are safe and reliable, course they’re tankers since that’s the side I was on.
I left because of a new DBL that would not try to get you a load saying, “That’s not my Job”
My truck when i left it had 250k miles on it and i didn’t know of anything wrong with it, on hometime run it by their shop, write it up and when you were leaving out, it was repaired and washed and waiting on you.

 

My company does drop and hook Amazon loads with our own trailers, but I'm glad that I have been getting less of them. For all of their size and fancy tech they can be extremely disorganized. It's really frustrating trying to deal with a guard shack that's manner by a remote worker.