Fuel companies for newbies

Good luck. Get out as soon as you can though. That #### is a meat grinder. There's a reason why even in this garbage market you can get a food service job paying 30 bucks an hour or more. Having done food service adjacent work before, 4 day work weeks are a godsend. 1 day to lay in bed popping tylenol and aleve. 1 day to run errands and get ready for the next week. 1 day to lay in bed again dreading the next 4 days.

I've ran routes before where I did 13-14 days straight staying in hotels. After that I'd be taking steroids to get the swelling out of my knees so I could walk again. Ain't doing that #### ever again. Did you know you can legally work more than 70 hours in a week? You can run iirc 84 or 88 legally by turning strictly on the minute on your 10s and 34s. Didn't even know that was a thing until I ran food waste.

 

750k mile rattletrap?? You guys crack me up. 2 guesses, Freightliner Cascadia, or International LT? I have 2 trucks, 1 has almost 2.2 million miles on it, other has just shy of 1.1 million. They are NOT fleet spec though. Both run great, one with 2.2 million on it needs some new door latches, that one rattles, solid as Sam Hill otherwise though.

 

You’re forgetting the slip seating part. Two drivers treating it like a rented mule 24 hours a day, likely 7 days week depending on how they schedule everyone.

 

I've ran one of the early cascadias that was slipseated 7 days a week its whole life and had 1.3 million miles. You needed earplugs to drive that and not have tinnitus at the end of the day.

 

Reminds me of my Dooley Oil days. All the old timers perfectly fine with getting paid 70k a year to haul fuel on a 5 day schedule simply to say they dont have to slipseat (they did if enough breakdowns happened). Not to mention none of them cared to check if they were getting paid for all their loads (they werent). I dont get it, but must be nice to not value your time at work of all places.

 

Weird, I said nothing about pay. And I really don’t care if others slip seat or not. But there’s no way a truck that is running around the clock 7 days a week by 3 or 4 different drivers will be taken care of as well as a truck with one driver. A single driver that has some accountability when sobering happens because there’s nobody else to blame it on.

Petsonally I don’t have a hard line one way or the other on what I’d do. I’d entertain the idea of slip seating provided the other person is also a clean non-smoker who doesn’t wear shoes in the cab. And also doesn’t touch everything on the trailer with their greasy gloves.

 

Right, I made the connection through your comment about having to slipseat. Again for them, clearly they've gotten to a point in life where it doesnt matter what theyre paid and they dont care so good on them, must be nice.

Which does remind me to ask, at your company, are you required to run out your 70 hour clock each week? I've yet to hear of a company where you dont share a truck but arent expected to do a full 70.

 

I cant speak for him but we slipseat and run out 65-70 a week if there is work. If you finish 5 shifts of around 12 hours, you'll be called in for a 6th day to use up that last 10 or so hours. Assuming they need it.

I'd say the company I work at but they cheat my paychecks so when I find something better I'll out them. Never know if it'll turn into a class action or I report them to the labor department.

 

Yup. And when you call them out for paychecks always being short "I dont think you need to nickle and dime us" (then proceeds to lie to me about matching my pay to the market average)...yes...how dare I request to be paid for ALL the work I've done. So thankful I dont work for those thieving scum anymore.