Oh man am i fed up

How much experience do you have? I got a call today for a company, but its local and pretty much all heavy haul. Seven axles or more experience.

 

If you can hang on do so. as Preacher Man said, it really looks good on your work history if your not a job jumper. This time of the year sucks for freight, talk to your fleet manager and see if there is something you can do to improve your miles.
Remember attitude is everything when dealing with management, on the phone or on the quallcom. What division are you in and how long do you stay out ?

 

Discouraging to read this, but understandable if this is the "slow season" for freight. Sorry that your miles are down. I too am curious as to what fleet you are on, also, how often do you get home?

 

how long do you stay out on road before hometime?

 

well if it will make you feel any better, Im on a home time fleet and average about 2000 to 2500 in 7 days sometime's more sometime's
less. all depend's on freight, live load, pre-load, drop and hook and the shipper and the customer. Im just guessing ,but I think Roehl try's to keep everyone happy by spreading the mile's around. hang in there, 3500 in 11 days is better than what Im getting in 7. freight will hopefully pick back up. Read some of the other company board's , thier are some driver's doing far less mile's and stay out for week's !














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Pretty simple, QUIT!!! Why put up with that kinda crap? Its never going to get better for the company drivers if you continue to endure or make do with so little.

Ive said it a million times on this board. Big companies are NEVER the answer.

 

I am tired of averaging 1700 miles/week, so I hear ya on this one.

I am usually out for 2 weeks, sometimes more depending on holidays and whatnot. They seem to be all mixed up on the Refer side of things, and have so much freight going into PA with nowhere near as much coming out. I once thought that by having the option of hauling temp sens or dry freight would give me more flexibility, but it seems that all it does is lock us into certain dry customers that are set specifically to get us back into Wisconsin.

In December one of my loads had to be relayed in BFE PA (I was sick) which put me under a Van. This initially irritated me because of the .02/mile pay cut... I proceeded to go to Pittston (PA), Marlborough (MA), South Glens Falls (NY), Danville (KY), Tampa (FL), Lake City (FL), Raleigh (NC), Mocksville (NC), Eau Claire (WI), Bloomington (MN), Wausau (WI), Marshfield (WI), Wisconsin Rapids (WI), Brookings (SD), Lake Norden (SD), Plankinton (SD), Marshfield (WI).

5,663 miles, in two weeks, including sitting for almost 34 hours after a load cancelled (which I had already waited 12 hours to pick up.)

I'm in the process of switching to the van side, maybe you should think about the same.

 

I pull a refer and we also haul dry freight. I go home every 2 weeks for 3 days off and average 2400 miles through the year. Last two weeks I got 3000 miles both weeks. There are some pains with a refer like some deliveries in the middle of the night, all nite runs, lumpers, and now and then the refer will break down. As for the noise, you get used to it.

 

That stuff doesn't bother me. I actually prefer night runs, less traffic and a lot closer to my natural sleep-rhythm, contrary to what sleep scientists have concluded is law: not everyone is a day person.

I have hauled dry freight in a refer trailer, but only as a means to get me back at least to Gary, IN.