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

Talk about a lengthy flight delay... that's worse than flying Southwest

 

Idling won't be an issue for me, it's the fake - "we respect and appreciate our drivers" mantra they project, then decide to time all these changes so that it screws things up the most for the drivers. It isn't like we're on the verge of going bankrupt and they have to implement these changes ASAP. This place use to have a real family feel to it until they partnered with Wylie, now with all these changes, they have turned into the average MEGA (probably Daseke's intention all along)..but still spew the "we love our drivers" speech. The guy on the latest YouTube video who updated us on the implementation of the idle stuff came across with the amount of enthusiasm like he was telling us his favorite dog had died tragically...and repeatedly kept claiming that they were here to help and how they think the world of their drivers. He said it often enough the phrase "me thinks thou protest too much" came to mind.

 

Got to my delivery today...and he had to come out and look at what I had. He intends on taking this off on an open dock. Not sure he'll be successful on some of it. The chiller itself is 22' long and he has a standard pallet size forklift. Not sure he has the power to lift the chiller from the side, and no friggin way he's gonna get it from the end. This will be interesting. He kept asking if it was a drop (I think that's what he was asking, I don't speak spanish and his english isn't the best)

My next load is an elevator load out of Dallas on Friday going to SoCal, so I will most likely be visiting our Rancho yard next week.

 

We don't have a guarantee anymore, that's what our daily rate plan was. @kylefitzy is (or was) on the 9900 mile salary plan, but I am not sure if they still have it, I just know they wouldn't let me move to it when they were ditching the daily rate program.

@kylefitzy has mentioned it on this thread a time or two...Since SPD did a lot of aerospace freight, recessions don't usually hit them very hard. What does hurt them is when one of their aerospace customers has a supplier or machinist union go on strike, a serious issue like planes mysteriously crashing or like this year, fuselage parts blowing out and the Feds have to investigate before they can resume normal production. Aeroplanes are a long term purchase so airlines tend to buy regardless of the current economy because their lifespan stretches across many up and down cycles in the economy.