Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by supersnackbar, Oct 26, 2020.

  1. OdderThan

    OdderThan Light Load Member

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    I never understood how people go back to jobs they quit.

    To this day, I have never gone back to a company I've left, and I only move companies/careers for pay increases, never pay cuts.
     
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  3. mstrchf117

    mstrchf117 Heavy Load Member

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    I think a lot depends on why someone leaves. My last company is left because I was going back to school, I mightve gone back if they had still been around. Also, with otr cpm pay its really hard to judge whether income is going to be significantly different since theres so many variables impacting pay. In general I agree though.
     
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  4. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Imagine only having 2 of your regular size checks, then the 2 smaller checks, then stretch that kind of cycle out over several years, plus having some major insurance deductible expenses(because of storm damage to both my house and one vehicle), all pulling money out of savings. That's what has been happening since Moore got folded into Wylie. I had a brief period when I went to SPD the 1st year to start putting a little money back, but then SPD's payroll change and their "partnership" with Wylie started things going downhill again. There is only so much you can pull out of savings before the well runs dry. So now, with the drop in pay coming here, it's down to cutting everything I don't absolutely need to live and try to pay off what I can because there isn't any more cushion. Hell, I have even moved to a prepaid cell plan and cut off my tablet (which was my only entertainment for these endless unloads at Shaffer's -wonderful- customers) and it is still not enough to get out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle and start putting money back in the bank. You can only get knocked down so many times before you just stop getting up, and I am about to that point.
     
  5. BoostedTeg

    BoostedTeg Road Train Member

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    Have you looked at Schwarz logistics? I don’t know anything about them but all of a sudden I see the trucks everywhere.
     
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  6. OdderThan

    OdderThan Light Load Member

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    Alot of flip-flops at that company their trucks are a hit or miss when they show up at my contract.

    Its either a truck that should be out of service, or just a brand new truck.

    Unless they broker a lot of their trailers out
     
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  7. Knucklehead619

    Knucklehead619 Medium Load Member

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    Next time they give you a load with a crap timeline like that (especially when it's a longer trip) ask your travel agent (I'm totally stealing that btw) before accepting or rejecting it to set a t-call and drop it enroute. Last time I was in NorCal they gave me a Home Depot load going to NC that delivered 6 days later even though it would've taken me 4-ish days to get there. I asked and they had me tcall it in West Memphis, I still got most of the miles on it and had a decent follow-on trip waiting as soon as I got there. It doesn't always work out like that but you won't know unless you ask.
     
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  8. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    I quit one job after about 4 years, because of the shipping supervisor, and one of the drivers. I could handle one, or the other, but not both. Moved on.

    Few years later, a friend who still worked there, called me, and said they were looking for a driver. Had a new supervisor, and the idiot driver also had left. Told me about some other changes, sounded good, and I went back, for another 5 years.

    Never say never.
     
  9. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    They will allow the driver to split the load for payroll so to speak they’ll turn around and go ahead and pay you for majority of the load that week if it delivers after payroll cut off
     
  10. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    I have asked to T-call many times on loads with too much time or carried over until the next pay period and all I get is "I'll ask". I think I have been allowed to t-call once or twice in the last 7 or 8 months when I ask. And the few times I have asked to get some of the load paid on the current weeks miles when it carried over, never got approved, so I quit asking.
     
  11. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    Ask your asset manager to split the load for payroll… They will do it
     
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