The Roehl break down.

As far as drivers, I think companies get what they pay for. And, it goes with what I am talking about as far as the newer generation of people in trucking-yes they seem to need babysat. Yes, it goes with the driver side also. Old school truckers as you may know, ran the daylights out of a truck and crunched in as many miles per week as possible (legally and illegally) and did not mind changing a mudflap because companies treated them better than the ones today.

You have to think of the many companies who fine drivers for any violation, or put it on their company record for a taillight out, mudflat missing etc. I personally would not change a mudflat for a company as such. It works both ways, treat drivers well, they will repair small things, micromanage then to death and treat them like a trashy number-why expect them to go out of thier way for the company?

Lastly, I personally do not got to certain areas or haul certain freight and I don't blame other driver for it also. Its easy for a planner/company to grab a higher paying beer load going to Jersey City because they are not the ones sitting at Miller Beer for 6 hours to load and maybe 3 hours to unload, and then spend 2 hours driving around Jersey looking for parking. I am sure most driver experienced the unpaid detention. Everyone's heard it before-we pay after 3 hours, or if the broker pays, you will receive it, or the shipper did not pay us so we can't pay you. Go to Walmart and-'we get 4 hours' or there is no door for your 8 am appointment and 2 hours later your in a door and another 3 hours to unload. Why should drivers agree to sit around unpaid and driver around hours looking for parking? Its a two-way street and it does not always go in the direction of the company.

 

So company drivers should get to pick and choose which loads they will do, and which they will not do? No wonder companies have to micromanage, as you say, because everyone would want the easiest loads to do. And the crap ones? "I'm not going to Jersey City, I don't have to!" "You can't send me!" "I'll sit here in the truckstop, and play my games on my phone, but you need to pay me for sitting"
Someone who want's the freedom to decide when, and which places they go to, and which places they refuse, should plunk down the money it takes to buy a truck.
You an O/O, or a company driver?

 

As mentioned, its a 2-way street. I don't sit at truck stops and play games-I tell them to find another load. Its drivers who put up with the crap from companies who have ruined the industry. If you want to go to Jersey or Boston and sit for hours under a crap load that's your choice. I don't just go to a company saying I will do this and that or whatever they throw at me. I am the one being unpaid for hours and hours loading and waiting in docks. Micromanagement as mentioned comes from the new generation of people in it. If you have been driving a long time you should see the changes in management and ethics that has come into the industry. I don't stand-up for any company because I know how they are and drivers are just a number to most and you should understand that if you have been driving any length of time.

 

Well, I guess I've been luckier than you. I take a job, knowing what is entailed in doing that job. If they tell me upfront "We have customers in the Northeast", I know there's a chance I might be going northeast. Or Philadelphia. Or Chicago, or some other undesirable place.
If I have issues with that, I say, "sorry, your company won't work out for me", and move along.

It sounds like you take employment at a place, and after being there a bit, you start whining "I'm not going there, find me something else". You say you don't sit in the truckstop playing games. What happens when they don't have another load?

My managers have always been willing to work with me. Maybe that's why I work with them, go above and beyond in most cases, to get the job done. You complain about micromanaging by management, but your attitude is why, IMHO, many companies have to micromanage drivers. They have to know driver X will whine about this delivery, driver Y only willing to run 300 miles a day, Driver A demands this, or that, etc. Maybe a good look in the mirror would straighten things up for you.

 

Your posts are mostly almost all negative and uninformative. Reading them you add little critical information, only 'your' opinion and smart remarks in most cases. I am not here to argue, chat, or condemn other drivers like you seem to do. I use it to relay information to other drivers from my experiences. You seem to have a lot of free time on your hands as you reply to most every post with sarcastic and smart remarks. You know nothing about me and again, its 'my opinion'. You come on the site not to give new information or help others but always to criticize someone. What you do with/in a company is up to you and your business, but don't try to paint me the way you think I am until you know all about me and my experience. You must have not been around in the cabover days or you would/could realize and see the differences in companies in the past and how they are today. So please take a look at yourself (posts you have on here) and ask yourself -'Am I really helping other drivers or just being sarcastic and forcing my opinion on/of others'?

 

And you should do the same with me. You know nothing of me or my experiences, but seem to think I only condemn, argue, criticize, or chat. You've read every one of my 11000+ post's, to come up with that opinion? Talk about time on your hands.

And yes, drove my share of cabovers. And yes, I was still told where I needed to go, and when I needed to be there. Tell your dispatcher during the "good old days" you're not going to Hellhole, Delaware, and you were looking for another job, or sitting a long time.

No one is forced to listen to anyone. And no one is forced to work at a company that actually wants drivers to do their jobs.

 

I do not read all of your reviews-don't waste my time on them but notice your name replying to them. Thank you.
Have a nice day!

 

I feel the same way, I just skip anything he reply's to.