What’s next in trucking?

I'm a company driver. I only noticed the cost of value meals.

 

I think I would have said "my flip phone doesn't run any apps. I'll need a company phone" instead of no. But I've had time to think about it. Many times these things come out of the blue.

 

Ain’t it funny companies want drivers to give and give and give. But companies don’t wanna give. Sounds like they lost a good driver. Their loss. Or they could just find a company phone. Good on you to stand your ground. They might even be testing their limits with you.

 

What's the name of the app and why can't they just install it on the tablet?

 

For what it's worth , I don't work for ur company but I know my company any app they want us to install they will put it on the tablet. Even tracking apps like macropoint can work on a tablet

 

I would not volunteer to buy another phone. I would volunteer to use a company phone if they provide it. That phone would also be turned off or put on Do Not Disturb for Sleeper and maybe other times.

I'm an over-sharer but I learned not to share things with employers and speak more vaguely about some things to preserve my options later on. Part of that comes from being the employee that lived closest to a pre-trucking job and after years of sometimes discovering I was being asked to do things nobody else would agree to do. For the phone, my contact with reefer customers taught me to all but deny I even know what a cellphone is because they, and the brokers, have every story in the world and will demand things I think are outrageous. Speak to the employer like he's a cop during a traffic stop. Don't disclose more than you have to and more than you are 100% sure they already know. Almost all of my employers are great people and I usually eventually treat them like family or friends, but never at first until I notice what the long-time employees have learned about the company. Also, most employee complaints are just alibis for employee bad behavior disguised as "outrageous" employer behavior until proven otherwise.