Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Well I made it to the pick up in Bordentown yesterday I get there and I walked in at 20 minutes after four. The guy says we’re closed. I said door says you’re open till 430… The guy says it’s we close outside at 430, but at 4 o’clock inside the building that we close..smh… they still loaded though..I

 

Exactly plus live unloads are set appointments so it makes no sense to run it really hard anyway
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It’s just megas being megas. Years ago when I drove for Knight they made a huge deal about driving 2500 miles per week minimum. Sounds good to me. In reality though they would only give you 1700-2000 miles per week unless you got all huffy and threatened to quit.

Mileage requirements when someone else controls your mileage are bizarre. Then when you remind them of the agreement they just say that those are simply goals to aim for.

Yea I know Crete is 10x’s better than Knight but Knight was about all the mega I could deal with for a lifetime.

 

There really is no difference and they don’t really care as long as you get the load there on time… The problem they’re having though is with these drivers that only wanna run these short days of 350 miles max is that they’re creating these late deliveries are constantly having them happen to t call loads so other drivers could pick them up and get them delivered on time because a lot of these so-called part-time drivers as I’d like to call them only wanna work certain hours… I personally ran across a couple of them that told me that… But other than that, they really don’t care how you run whether you run a late day a heavy day in between as long as you can make it there on time to deliver… And of course there’s exceptions for delays that are legitimate and they don’t hold that against you

for instance I ran into a Shaffer that said he will not work past 1600 and they gave him a load that had a 1900 delivery and he told them that he couldn’t deliver it because he doesn’t work past 1600… And he’s one of these 350 mile a day drivers… This is the problem that they’re encountering and it’s causing issues with certain customers

 

Or they say oh that's the freight we have.....so if mileage is at the mercy of the market why have a arbitrary goal that isn't always possible??

 

Knight is a short to medium haul carrier even though they will never admit that that’s the way they dispatch… Always has been and more likely always will be

 

For me personally getting a mixture of runs some short to medium to long doesn’t bother me as long as I get my miles… Now I know they’re gonna be certain weeks or things happen and my miles get shafted comes with a territory and I just deal with it and keep moving…

 

Logbook maintenance. If you don't take 34h resets, you are always working in your recap. Keep working 10-11 hour days and when the recap rolls around, you have high hour days to work with. If you work it right, you can force a reset if your mgr doesn't like you taking them. Personally, I don't take them unless absolutely necessary. I usually run a mix of high and medium hour days. I try to get one 34h break per 4 week tour.

 

Or just run hard enough to burn hours in 5 days lol .. boom instant reset