The Old Man's career dries up, Snackbar transfers to Crete from Shaffer

I have only scanned 1 for the load I delivered last Friday, and it assigned all the documents to the right trip number, but when I got the email confirmation, it had the trip number I just delivered this morning on it (and this mornings trip number is still on the e-trip's load list so I know I picked the right trip). I scanned it in the old way as well with the bubble sheet. I'll give it 1 paycheck f'up...if it screws up a 2nd one, I will deliver my truck to Deland.

 

You can tell it's a holiday weekend. I got the next to the last parking spot in the Mechanicsburg yard, of course there are a dozen regular spots being taken up by bobtails that could be parked in the bobtail/trade truck slots, or over in the bobtail parking spots next to the fuel island. But that's too far for some of our precious most valuable assets to walk.

 

I didn't know they were going down this path, when I said that I didn't know we were gonna be forced into using a questionable app that might cause me to not be paid correctly. They have been using the old reliable Transflo system for decades, with the only change is when they dropped the use of the truckstop scanning and went 100% scanning from the Crete app. With the old system, if you realized you screwed something up, you could just rescan it in after you fixed the screw up. With this new system, you got 1 shot. Once you hit the submit you can't go back and fix something and rescan it in. Another issue I see is with the lumper receipts. Many lumper services now only use digital receipts sent via txt or email. Since we are ONLY able to scan our trips in on the tablet, how do I get the receipt from the email or txt app on my phone to the tablet? Take a picture of my small phone screen?(which would most likely have flash glare from the tablet's LED flash) When it was on my phone, then I would just save it and send in the T-flow from my phone. Now I don't have access to the e-trip on my phone, and the tablet doesn't have a phone number or access to my email to have it sent there instead. So turning in a lumper receipt is gonna be a PITA.

 

His reference was about a statement I posted years ago about the devil you know...

I used it again last night and it did something different than the 1st time. After I scanned on Friday, when you get to the point after you hit the 'Next' and it asks for the trip, truck and driver code, the 1st time it didn't automatically fill in the trip, last night it did. I did everything exactly the same both times, so I don't know why it did things differently, but it did. This is why I don't trust their system.

And I went thru the tutorial on the media again, and it still doesn't explain how we're supposed to get electronic lumper receipts from a txt or email added to our document que so we can send it in. I guess I am gonna have to get my printer down from the top bunk and print out a hard copy to scan in, which is SO much more convenient than just saving it to my phone and using a bubble sheet. Thankfully, on the Crete side, I haven't had to use lumpers yet, nowhere near as often as the Shaffer side.