Showed up for my 23:00 appt at 22:00

Bummer. Sometimes we just have days like these and it's tough to make the most of them, but thankfully every day isn't like this!

Sorry for the hassle. Been there, done that!

 

Did you get paid detention at least?

 

It's so hard to find good help these days....

 

It happens. Then you will have weeks when you can't hardly take your safety breaks. It's just the way it goes.

I think things will smooth out for you a bit Mike, as you go along. I know you are catching a lot of stuff that is new to your right now, but you seem to be handling it OK.

 

Don (and others)..
don't you see some of this as a way for the company to see what he is made of and how he can handle himself and things on the road..??

i sure as hell do. we as drivers, when we first started out, were "tested" time and time again. as WE ALL KNOW, life on the road is tough. if a driver, male or female can handle all these problems with nary a complaint, as you alluded to Don, the freight starts coming and one cannot even catch his breath sometimes...right..???

 

Perhaps, and with a lot of companies. Or it could be that once you get a few whiskers on you, you just sort of take it as it comes.

What I used to just hate was dispatch trying to tell me, "well there just isn't any freight moving out of (wherever it happened to be) right now, when everyone else seemed to be getting loads out. IMHO this was because I was from another terminal and my dispatcher was not "buddy-buddy" with the weekend dispatch where I happened to be.

But I really do believe that getting enough experience to plan your loads and get preplans set up, makes a big difference.

 

Yep, happened to me once too. After talking about it later on at a TS, an older driver told me to look for a time clock when checking in. He said some places the help uses the same entrance door as the drivers. When one is there, I punch the time onto the BOL. There's no way to dispute that kind of proof.