Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

That’s true, I just wasn’t willing to accept the short to medium pay that was associated with Knight. I definitely don’t have the energy of SSB to be perpetually angered at my employer which that company required in order to eke out a living wage. They’d leave you sitting for a week away from home unless you called someone. At home though, they’d be on the phone after 12 hours asking you when you can leave again….

 

The other problem with knight Is when you’re in another terminal so-called operating area they like to play games with other terminals trucks in their area in Phoenix doesn’t give a rats behind that it happens either

 

Apparently now they’re checking trucks at terminals and trucks that are parked that are in need of schedule maintenance or there’s things like software updates needed on the trucks. They’re pulling them into the shop whether you wrote the truck up or not… They pulled my truck into Wilmer shop while I was on vacation and did a few things including a software update and I never wrote the truck up before I went home…

 

When I was at Prime, you could not drive onto any of their yards without going through a shop lane.

 

Personally, if times allowed it, I would run the trip in a day and take a reset. Fresh hours ready to go. My customer this week had an event and had to push loading back a day. So I ran down to Tx and took a reset with 44 hours left in my 70. Now I’m fresh and ready to roll for next week.

I don’t get how box jockeys only run 2000 miles a week. I turn significantly more than that dining oversize. Two of us ran 642 miles at 16’ wide and 100’ long today. Now weekend curfews and an international bridge that only lets us cross 4 hours per day is going to slow us down, but we will still do 1700 miles in 3 and a half days.

How do these megas keep anyone in the truck for weeks on end and only give them 3-4 days of work a week? I don’t get it.

 

They've been doing that for awhile, idk about company wide I guess, but I would park in Deland, and there were a couple times they pulled my truck in while I was home. Probably depends on how busy the shop is.

 

First time Wilmer has ever done it on mine…I had no idea until two days after I came back from vacation when they sent the survey out.