An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

supersnackbar · Mar 29, 2024

archangelic peon said: ↑

Why not try some top tier gravy jobs like USPS TTO, old Dominion line haul, air products otr technician?
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Location, location, location. Where I live places like that are a huge commute or don't pay all that well

navypoppop said: ↑

SSB,
Why tolerate the abuse? You are heading for a heart attack or stroke. Relax, take a deep breath, evaluate your options and proceed to move on.

You have endured a whole lot of abuse and unprofessional dealings with this company and it's time to move on. They don't seem to appreciate good drivers and as soon as you move on they will just put another victim in your seat and nothing will change on their part.

Take your home time to check out your options. If they offer you a reasonable avenue to escape that nut house go for it and don't look back.
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right now, finding something that pays close to what I am making here is tough. I have been holding off making any kind of jump until things smooth out in the economy. I have even floated the thought of just going bankrupt and getting rid of everything other than the house, our cells, and general living expenses and just working at a normal job and telling the trucking industry as a whole to #### off.

JohnBoy · Mar 29, 2024

BM 58 said: ↑

Clean your truck out at next hometime. when you quit go by a Fedex and ship the rest of your stuff home. Turn your truck in and get on a plane and go home.
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That’s exactly how I did it. On my way in I faxed off my resignation letter. Got in on a Saturday and never looked back.

kylefitzy · Mar 29, 2024

supersnackbar said: ↑

Took over 4 hours to put 3 15' x 3' x 2.5' crates on my trailer. And I have lost some respect for my outgoing dispatcher. When I had a major #### fit about this whole screwed up load, I mentioned that it wouldn't take much more for me to just tell this customer to put it on someone elses trailer and I would take 1st pickup's freight back to the Rancho yard, put my crap in a you-store-it, toss the keys on Rancho's desk and hop on a jet out of Ontario to the house. Next call I get is from recruiting. Apparently he went and talked to her about losing one of his boards productive drivers. She called wanting to know why I was so pissed, and for the next 5 minutes I went thru the whole list of stuff that has gone down the crapper here, and how fast Daseke putting us with Wylie has totally screwed up what use to be a decent company, but is now becoming one of the most screwed up places I have ever worked for including the equipment issues and how much of a huge pain in the ### these new Samsara pieces of #### are. Apparently I am not the only one who has to reboot daily to get it to work right. In the end, she said she was sending out some emails about all of this which, in my opinion, will change nothing. When this whole problem load started, after some choice words about how this all went sideways, I put in for hometime. I have only been out 3 weeks, but I have already had my fill of ########. When he asked why so soon, I basically said that it only took 10 days for me to go from slacker to hard runner and now back to "why run hard only to be hand this ########". I have had enough. Why kill myself to only be pushed to run harder...if I go back and run at 75%, then the occasional push to run 100% isn't unreasonable, but if I am already at a 100%, they want more. Refrigerated freight was never like this...looks like I start narrowing down the list of perspective employers because I can't take much more of this here.

Just took a look at todays logs. It has me 13 min over my 14 on drive time...and as promised I noted that I was told to I had to stay and get loaded even though I informed them I would be out of hours if I did. It all came after I maxed out the company's PC mileage limit. If they bend me over on this I will explode... safety first my ###!!!!!
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Welcome to ltl flatbed, that’s why we get paid extra, it’s not for everyone. Sitting at the customer for over 2 hours, you could have done a split break and paused your 14. Follow that up with a 7/8 in the sleeper, even if you take 10+ off and everything would have been “legal”.

samsara works nearly perfectly on my phone. The only thing that doesn’t work is geofencing. They also pay $30 for your phone every month.

best of luck.

50WT · Mar 30, 2024

supersnackbar said: ↑

Took over 4 hours to put 3 15' x 3' x 2.5' crates on my trailer. And I have lost some respect for my outgoing dispatcher. When I had a major #### fit about this whole screwed up load, I mentioned that it wouldn't take much more for me to just tell this customer to put it on someone elses trailer and I would take 1st pickup's freight back to the Rancho yard, put my crap in a you-store-it, toss the keys on Rancho's desk and hop on a jet out of Ontario to the house. Next call I get is from recruiting. Apparently he went and talked to her about losing one of his boards productive drivers. She called wanting to know why I was so pissed, and for the next 5 minutes I went thru the whole list of stuff that has gone down the crapper here, and how fast Daseke putting us with Wylie has totally screwed up what use to be a decent company, but is now becoming one of the most screwed up places I have ever worked for including the equipment issues and how much of a huge pain in the ### these new Samsara pieces of #### are. Apparently I am not the only one who has to reboot daily to get it to work right. In the end, she said she was sending out some emails about all of this which, in my opinion, will change nothing. When this whole problem load started, after some choice words about how this all went sideways, I put in for hometime. I have only been out 3 weeks, but I have already had my fill of ########. When he asked why so soon, I basically said that it only took 10 days for me to go from slacker to hard runner and now back to "why run hard only to be hand this ########". I have had enough. Why kill myself to only be pushed to run harder...if I go back and run at 75%, then the occasional push to run 100% isn't unreasonable, but if I am already at a 100%, they want more. Refrigerated freight was never like this...looks like I start narrowing down the list of perspective employers because I can't take much more of this here.

Just took a look at todays logs. It has me 13 min over my 14 on drive time...and as promised I noted that I was told to I had to stay and get loaded even though I informed them I would be out of hours if I did. It all came after I maxed out the company's PC mileage limit. If they bend me over on this I will explode... safety first my ###!!!!!
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Maybe put you big boy pants on and just do the job. I do things where I work that suck , and sometimes they're easy. If it where all fun and easy it would be a hobby not a job. Sorry you got the short straw this time , next load will hopefully be better.

supersnackbar · Mar 30, 2024

50WT said: ↑

Maybe put you big boy pants on and just do the job. I do things where I work that suck , and sometimes they're easy. If it where all fun and easy it would be a hobby not a job. Sorry you got the short straw this time , next load will hopefully be better.
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I do plenty of less desirable tasks at this job, I just don't post everything, so that tells you how much more goes wrong. Flatbed is full of times that make you wonder why you chose it. I guess my rant about this load is me blowing off steam about an issue with this company. The over all lack of communication between Op's and the drivers is horrific at best. And I don't know why that surprises me, that has been an area that has always been an issue here, even before we were stuck with Wylie. Which is odd considering how many of the people in Ops are former drivers. My DM and I talked yesterday, he said I wasn't the only one getting screwed up loads. Another one of his drivers was sent in to pick up a load in a conestoga. When he got there he was informed that the load was 105" wide. He had to leave because there is no way a 105 wide will fit under a 102" conestoga. When the salesman called my DM about why his driver didn't get loaded he had to get pissy because the guy didn't understand why it wouldn't fit.

When I spoke to the lady in recruiting, she was told they bumped the tarp pay up to $75 in early March, but management never said a word to anyone, not the drivers, not the Op's and not even the recruiting department.

This whole delay was caused by one thing. The shipper added 1 more piece to the load and had to wait on an updated b/l. They told Arlington they were adding a 3rd piece, but again, nobody said a word to my DM or me, which made things interesting because my final pickup was 6' wide and 25 1/2 feet long. Fortunately the added piece wasn't too wide and we played Tetris at the 3rd pickup and fit it all on deck.

Trashtrucker1707 · Mar 30, 2024

What threw me off the most about the original complaint on this load is how your DM recognized you were out 3 weeks and then asks why you’re going home so soon? I know you’re a road warrior, but dang have some decency and treat a man like a human, that’s 3 weeks away from your wife, your family, I presume grandkids. That comment from him wouldn’t sit right with me and I don’t even work there. Safe travels.

cdavis188 · Mar 30, 2024

Flatbed seems to be more work than it’s worth from what i’ve read. I’ve seen a lot more of our flatbed trucks pulling vans than flatbeds, so our flatbed stuff must have slowed down, so that’s a way to keep them rolling and make money. I don’t know how well flatbed pays but on an average week, I gross about $1700-$2000 pulling a dry van around

Winnyf1 · Mar 30, 2024

cdavis188 said: ↑

Flatbed seems to be more work than it’s worth from what i’ve read. I’ve seen a lot more of our flatbed trucks pulling vans than flatbeds, so our flatbed stuff must have slowed down, so that’s a way to keep them rolling and make money. I don’t know how well flatbed pays but on an average week, I gross about $1700-$2000 pulling a dry van around
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It’s also about what you enjoy, sitting at docks having idiotic delivery appointments isn’t for everyone, just like tarpping isn’t every truck drivers cup of tea.

Personally I wouldn’t ever touch dry van on a permanent basis, and many other open deckers are the same. Cool that you are doing well at dry van, hopefully your freight will stay solid and you’ll be able to keep rolling strong.

The Block Robert · Mar 30, 2024

Interesting week to say the least.

cdavis188 · Mar 30, 2024

Winnyf1 said: ↑

It’s also about what you enjoy, sitting at docks having idiotic delivery appointments isn’t for everyone, just like tarpping isn’t every truck drivers cup of tea.

Personally I wouldn’t ever touch dry van on a permanent basis, and many other open deckers are the same. Cool that you are doing well at dry van, hopefully your freight will stay solid and you’ll be able to keep rolling strong.
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reefer freight has all those idiotic delivery dates, dry van really doesn’t, or at least not at my company. i have zero idea why people would continue hauling a reefer around with all the bs that you have to deal with hauling it. But as you say i guess some people enjoy it

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