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Thanks for the advise, I'm heading to Conover tomorrow!!!!!!!

 

Jail cells are getting filled by ......

the drivers that won't say NO !!!!

That is NOT necessary in order to make a good living.

You must learn how and when to say NO !!!!

 

theres really no reason to say no, they dont really throw anything unrealistic at you, here anyway. if you are sending ALL your qcomms and they have an accurate idea of your hours you wont have to tell them no, even if its hey i dont have the hours for this. i have only had to say "no" a couple times when the truck broke, and even then i didnt say NO i said hey truck broke i dont think i can make it on time, what do you want me to do? there ya go.

im a little shocked how many guys have told me they dont even send qcomms until they are empty.

 

You state there is no reason to say no.

but yet, you have told them No !!!!!

Which is it !!!!

 

I've never turned down a load just because I didn't want it, I've been givin loads that were already late and told dispatch theres no way to get it there on time and they have been able to move the delivery date or time back no problem. The only load I was given but didnt take was the one they tried to give me when I was on my way to the shop.......My truck had a HOLE in the radiator and was blowing Anti-Freeze everywhere, and I ran it like that for 2 weeks while the parts came in and they routed me back to the shop. I wasn't going to keep driving further into the winter with pure water in there and crack the block just to take the load.

I would never just say NO because I don't want a particular load, I'm here to work and make money. I find it much easier to just do whatever they ask.


Good to see you posting again S2B!



American Trucker

 

i ever said no, pay attention. think back to when you learned punctuation and what these little squiggles can mean "". like sarcasm. i just keep them posted on the situation, put the ball in their court. if they want to cancel the load, its on them, if they are able to push back a pickup ill still go.

and the only time i have ever run over hours was because of nyc, and that wasnt their fault or mine, just the stupid town. they have never asked me to do anything that coulnt be done. if that day ever comes, i will let them know i cant make it on time, if they still insist i do it i will just do it and be late. still no reason to say no.
communicating with dispatch both helps them/you AND covers your ###, some people overlook that part of it.

with other companies i couldnt agree more with telling them to go fly a kite, but these guys have it together and thats why i enjoy working here.

 

I don't work for W/S, but know the Conover terminal. Conover hauls a LOT of new furniture. They have these loads because they came in, cut the rates on the established carriers, and even undercutting what the companies that ran their own fleets could haul for. They then made up the difference by using new drivers and paying much lower wages than what was normally being paid. This put many experienced furniture haulers out of work. I'm not here complaining about this, it is what it is.

That being said, as a furniture hauler from way back, you will not rack up the miles hauling sticks. You have receivers that start at 9 or 10 AM, and quit before 5. You can only get so many stops off a day, even if you run like a mad man, don't eat, and beg the receiver to take you early or late. That's the nature of stick hauling. Hopefully the stop pay wil make up for the lack of miles. From what I read here the furniture loads are broken up with other types of freight, which helps, but multi-stop loads will kill your weekly miles.

 

Great Post, S2B. You just put our profession and how to make money in our particular company in a nutshell.

As for what another poster said about saying no or not....we know you don't say NO to loads you can LEGALLY run, but only to ones you can't. As AT said, if you send in your daily check calls, dispatch should have a fairly good idea of your available hours.

Oh, and our company, they know multi-stop loads kill miles, so they pay you pretty good for the stops. Some drivers make more on stop pay than on miles and it works for them.

Welcome to the dark side, S2B....LOL