Indian River

So by the company dispatching a late appointment load, the tradeoff is if I get stuck at the customer for 6 hours, I won't be getting detention cause I was "late"? That's crazy.... Plus I didn't know companies had software that warn them about loads and stuff.

 

I will say it varies by company, if we dispatch a tight load and the driver late, the no detention is on them, if we dispatch a load we know is going to be late no matter what, we will pay the detention to the driver as a cost of doing business and not charge the customer. Which should be standard but isn't. You would want to ask your Fleet Manager/Dispatcher about it in your case.

On the software side any TMS system has warnings for late, non-feasible dispatch, out of route, excessive dead head, and other items all set by company parameter.

 

Hopefully they give a reason. If it was milk you could run ag exempt and make it .

 

Lol, it’s cream, I couldn’t made it either way, drove 4hr to get load, all I have is 7hrs, I'm gonna get closer and I'll still have about 400+ miles to go.

 

I usually uncheck it to avoid confusion, especially if you have dispatch looking at your clock and thinking you will always be using split sleeper.

 

Cool.

 

I spoke to a recruiter and he said that their OTR division is all drop and hook.

Is that not true?

 

OH MAN... That sounds like a dream to me, it keeps you moving when doing that, that's honestly one of the reason I wanted to go to IRT lol. My last two loads were a drop on the customer's side, plus I'm picking up another Cream load in Winchester KY, to deliver it at Saputo Dairy in Plant City Fl, which might be another drop because that's the same customer that I drop my tank at today but except it's a different plant, plus there's a "Drop and Hook 24/7" line in the dispatch so yeah, honestly only that Houston load that was the only live-unloading I've had so far, I won't mind staying here a little longer if I'm getting these kinds of loads.

I feel like one day I'm gonna reach a 700 miles milestone. That "Hrs Gained in 2 Days" line is what I'm gonna get from recap Sunday at midnight?

 

Here's my Log for this current week, which I think ends today, I haven't taken a 34 since I started on Wednesday April the 30th, I've been running recap ever since, which I don't get cause I've been running down my clock, I thought for you to get recap you had to run at least 8hrs each day, I still have about 11hrs left on my 70 and I always get some hours back at midnight so I wake up with about 21-22 hours on my 70 everyday so I have a full 14 hours shift everytime. So as long as you have hours left on your 70 on your 8th day, you can keep running recap forever? HOS is confusing sometimes LOL!!