Do Not Go To Nationwide Southeast Inc

My cure for you guys is craigs list...deviat from surface driving...and dive into the world of outlaws...(just kidding)

 

Don't sweat the dac report Bubba , ,I just got a pretty good job and they saw that I had a company put that I "abandoned a load" (didn't) they said that they know about using D.A.C /hireright as a "weapon" . . .a childish antic that some weary themselves (in vain) to try and "get" a driver . . .yeah . . .they "got" me alright-a better job!

 

when you are sitting 2 and 3 hours log off duty simple as that

 

Thanks for the update on that trucking company, Bubba . Anyone that knows the trucking industry , knows exactly where you are coming from. The only folks that would question you , would be dispatchers or someone that doesnt have a clue about what goes on out there. Once you get your record cleared , stay away from CELADON . They will make sure it gets messed back up.

 

The whole post was confusing but this is the most confusing he wrote!
Can anyone tell me if he even understands the 14/10 rule? This "rule" was in effect before the post date but the old 10/8 rule still covered this! So it took 3 days to do 11 hours of driving. If you clocked in at so and so and by hour 14 you had not delivered all your drops then FMCSA/HOS says you stop for 10 hours then you get to start your hours again. Rookies understand this! LOL

I guess that he was "Forced" to drive for 3 days making deliveries whenever they would take them!

I guess they have someone in the truck holding a gun to his head "forcing" him to make those deliveries!

I just had to point this out to a 14 year trucker! I know this thread was a few years old when it was brought back to life but still that one part was about a dumb as anyone could do. Driving for 3 days and making the 11 hours of driving time! Is there some subparagraph in the HOS no one knows about that allows you to stay awake for days on end until you make the 11 hour max driving time? I only see the one where after 14 hours of going to ON Duty, having to stop driving but not working but driving. That HAS to be how he did it as we ALL know that no one can force you to drive over hours, pull over weight freight or drive a POS that will not meet DOT inspection standards.

Only the driver can do any of those things not a dispatcher , LC, FM, or a company owner!

 

OUCH!
I guess he told me!
Yeah I used to get that crap many years ago before I bought my own and it stopped.

Then I went back to a company and it changed!
I told them when given that load of crap to stuff it fix it or it got parked while under a load and then quit when I got their POS back to the yard because it turned out they did that on a regular basics!

When I went in for an interview I put it right on the table that I did NOT drive anything that could get put out of service because someone was a cheap arse and didn't want something that needed to be fixed or repaired in anything but their own shop! I didn't get several jobs because of that but that was my decision as I knew what I could do and get away with! I have found several jobs where what I said they agreed with.

In 1998 I moved back here and got a job with a local 75 truck company. They told me the same thing. It got fixed when it broke.
Then the funniest thing happened.
I had a dispatcher tell me on the phone, before we went to Highway Master to get another log book and get the load done. The phone went dead for a minute then I hear a new voice on the phone asking "who is this?" I told him and it was the boss. He asked me where I was, I told him, he asked what my book looked like and I told him I was out of hours and he told me to get my 8 and call in the morning and I'd have a new dispatcher as mine just got fired for telling me to run ILLEGAL!
I drove for this company till 2008 when I became disabled!
He was in this to make money not pay it to the gooberment in fines because of falsified logs or piss poor equipment! It was legal or it was parked. With logs you were gone if you didn't or couldn't figure them out!

If the truck needed to be fixed it got fixed. If there was an HOS problem loads got rescheduled or repowered. All that with a small company with brains behind the front desk! They were in this to make money and still did.

That crapola you spouted was just that!
Crap!
Any company so stupid that they take money out of THEIR pocket to "spank" a driver for following the rules are completely full of bull and anyone willing to stay with a company like that if it's true, deserves what ever happens to them!

Every time I hear that "forced" or "punishment" line I almost fall down laughing my arse off!
Would YOU sit YOUR tuck for DAYS to punish a driver?
HELLO NO you wouldn't as would any company out there!
Losing over a dollar a mile plus to the truck to punish a 30 cent a mile driver because he told big dumb dispatcher NO?
Any of you who believe that crap, the Easter Bunny is due next month!

The only reason to sit a truck was someone in that office wasn't good enough or couldn't find freight to put on that thing!

Yes, they can threaten you, but now the ball is in the drivers court!
And that's ALL they can do is threaten!
And I'll say it again!
Are they holding a gun to your head?
Maybe a whip or tire billy to beat you with if you don't do what they say instead of following those FMCSA rules?
Ask those morons to send those orders to you either on that satellite system or to the truck stop on a fax or now as a text to your cell and listen to either the crickets in the back ground, the laughter or that click as they hang up on you!

Points for doing what a moron tells you to do?
I don't think so!
He isn't the one getting those points!
CSA doesn't apply to desk jockeys!
He can kiss my royal red caboose!
He can walk out that door and into anotherone and get hired because he doesn't have points to be able to answer a phone and work a windows application!

I have the whiskers to tell him so too! I used to be able to find a job anywhere I applied and because my resume and online application is still out there I still get calls and emails with an offer!
And that "I do not drive POS equipment" IS on that resume!

Parking a truck, losing money on that truck when it could be making money to punish a dime a dozen driver? LOL
Oh yeah! Lets all go to the poor house because a real driver has a pair big enough to tell me no and demand that we protect him, other drivers and the public, not to mention the company from what could become a multi million dollar law suit because we were cheap arses and didn't get something fixed!

Me? I'd be out of that truck so fast they wouldn't even see the tail lights of my bike or pickup as I pulled out of their yard!

An old saying we had went like this.

"I was looking for a job when I got this one!"

Now the mantra is "I'm so scared I'll do whatever they tell me to do when it threatens my 25 cent a mile job!"

I guess having a pair isn't a requirement in trucking anymore.