What is acceptable when working as a otr company driver

Yeah, I'd be looking too. Dispatch has screwed up this week on me, cost me about 4 hours of drive time every day for the last three days. Sent me to Chicago, forgot he was going to look for a different load, sent me over here this morning to unload at 5am even though they never unload these until 8am. Getting unloaded anyway but still annoyed.

Big difference here, though. These people actually listen. From the shop guys to the VP, I can bug any of them and they'll work with me to fix whatever it is. So I'm hanging around here, even though I'd rather be running flatbed. And even with all the time I've lost this week, which usually doesn't happen, I'm sitting at 1772 miles for the week with a bit over 500 to run today before I head home for the weekend.

 

Yep... you have to do what you need to to survive... and pissing and moaning about your situation on-line does little to solve that problem. Worrying about the DOT.CSA/FBI/CIA won't get your problems fixed... it's survival mode out here folks... this ain't 2007.

(regarding you mention of my regrooving tool...99% of all tires are regroovable and they don't care what tool you use... those tires were still legal to run despite what you may think. Crude... yes. Legal... 10-4. What would YOU have done... sat home without work until the tooth fairy delivered new tires?)

If you don't like the outfit you are with...QUIT. Find another job. There are plenty of wonderful positions with any major mega-carrier... we all know how good those jobs are don't we?

 

KROOSER you are a LEGEND in your OWN mind.

 

i started a thread while back called "why is otr so hard to get"there i talked about how i got royaly screwed and i actually quit out of rage one day and my dispatch said i wish we could've talked about it and i said we already did but you never listened so see ya! i was gone for 3 months doing the christmas tree runs from oregon with a friend and when it was done i actually came back to work for these guys and i am treated waaaay different got a better truck on the way in and just recently got a newr truck the one on my avatar so yea here i am happy as a driver can be funny how things work sometime.

 

Thanks...... I think.

 

Good for you... In have seen guys come and go so often the dispatch office should have a revolving door.

Glad it worked out...

 

It's hard to know exactly how a company is until you join up because drivers will lie about miles and other things.

I actually think that your situation is pretty common. I lot of people have these ideas about how great truck driving is before they try it.

Another thing is finding out how they expect you to run before you join on. If their other drivers are working the log book to get miles then that tells you that dispatch probably isn't going to be efficient enough to get you miles running legal.