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You're in the wrong line of work! Pavement is pavement and you are supposed to be a professional driver! Quit your complaining and drive before someone fires you!

 

I miss running to the East Coast. My company gave it up for the less than generous freight rates.

Curious, what does being a girl have to do with it? There's potential danger anywhere you aren't aware and mindful. I feel safer overnight at a receiver in Seacacus NJ than an isolated Interstate rest area in the midwest.

That's just me, though.

 

Being a female has nothing to do with it You are at risk everywhere you go. I too love the east coast even though i live on west coast i prefer to run midwest/east coast. I also fell safer in many places out there. there are bad areas all over the usa. I can tell you that poly trucking does not have forced dispatch on outboud loads you chose from a list 3 to 15 loads depends on what plant your coming out of. However you must take whatever bachaul you get unless ther is a problem with your hours or a safty issue. the will allways backhaul you to the dallas plant if the can or nearby. sometimes you might have to go somewhere else before they get you back to dalles. They have plants in grand praire,tx ( dfw area) mount belview,tx (bout 20/30 miles east of houston) cottage grove,mn ( bout 10 miles south of st paul ) henderson,nv ( 30 miles south of vegas ) I drove for them 4 1/2 years

 

Don't listen to these post to much as not every company runs northeast. And the funny thing is even the BIG companies have accounts that do not run the northeast. Just do a little research and find what you want. Like I said there is plenty of companies for the drivers that don't want to run northeast. Good luck and stay in the game.

 

I think you just needed to rephrase your question to: Do you know of any companies that do not run to the east coast??

There are plenty of companies that do not run to the east coast, you just have to look for them.

 

Are you ready for MY comments? Anyone that knows me sit back and get ready!

WHAT THE HELLO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FORCED DISPATCH?????

Is that your truck? Maybe your truck AND trailer?

If it's NOT your owned outright equipment there is no such thing as FORCED DISPATCH! Never was never will be as long as it's in your name! O/O's go where they want to go unless the wife at home says GO THERE!

If you drive someones equipment then either live with the idea that it's theirs and they will have you drive it wherever they want the thing to go!

It's their truck and they offered you a mileage rate or a percentage of the rate and you agreed. If when hired they told you that they do certain areas and now countries (Canada and Mexico) then go to where the dispatcher tells you to go! If you look at it, you are sitting in something that costs more than a lot of drivers homes. You get any dispatch and I mean ANY as in Las Vegas, the gold coast, Florida, NYC (I love that place as brokers and shippers pay stupid money to cross a bridge and pick up the over priced tolls!) or down the street from your home it's ALL forced dispatch because it's their truck and trailer and freight that they took to deliver for money!

Now if you make so much money that you can tell the OWNER of the truck that you "don't do/go to so and so" then expect to either get trash runs that pay little and takes a few days to get to when it's 500 miles with a delivery time of 0300 on the 5th day after dispatch maybe Christmas Eve 1000 miles from home. That's what I would call forced dispatch to teach you a lesson on business!

Sorry that you wasted all that money for that driver mill when you're not cut out for trucking. No really you aren't. Trucking is the movement of freight to any designated area and the driver of a company truck has NO say as to where the truck they are wasting their time in crying about some ######### called forced dispatch! To be forced there must be someone holding a gun to your head. It can't be because the owner thinks you don't have to go where he believes the truck should go because he got a load that pays good money and it's his truck anyway!

Get out of that truck NOW!

Go to the bank and get a loan but tell the bank that you only do cheap freight to low cost areas and refuse to run in areas that pay hazardous duty pay to cross a silly bridge and see how fast they loan you the money! That will look great on that busness plan you hand them!

It's their truck. Go where they tell you or go back to flipping burgers? WAIT! That is forced flipping isn't it? They order a medium rare and not the easier to tell well done so how are you going to survive in life? You will have every boss in your lifetime telling you what to do! If you are taking their money then do the job or join a union! Become an owner or a busness owner and the only people you will have to worry about telling you what to do is the Gooberment or if you are so lucky a union that forces their way in by your employees then THAT will be something forced on you that you can't fix unless you sell out!

But trucking ain't for you! Wheels turn you make money. Go find that easy job you were looking for when you paid stupid money to learn to drive a truck because someone told you a lie that there is such a thing as refusing a load when employed to a company that isn't yours and that it's easy sitting on your six all day like sitting on the couch at home!

Every street has asphalt or concrete with yellow and white lines painted on them and signs placed next to the asphalt. They all look the same. It matters not where they are as it's the road that you use not an area! If scared of certain areas get out of the truck, or you believe you can't make anything in those areas then tell the employer when you go to orientation and see if he pays your bus fare home!

I never turned a load down as a company driver! As an O/O I went where the money was and that's those areas that whiny arsed crybabies don't do and I get that freight because they pay more to get it delivered!

I'll bet you would prefer Florida? Yeah right that's ONE area I stay the hello away from and I was born there and love girl watching! No real freight comes pout of there just the lie called backhaul!

Take the job
go where the boss tells you to go
or quit!
Forced dispatch?? ROFLMFAOACGU! Where is trucking going to these days?
The new breed? What a laugh!

Whats really a laugh. As a driver for a company that did fleece purchase program I got a lot of high paying freight because of sissy baby drivers that sang this song "I don't do NYC" until they found out how much I brought home as a company driver that did NYC! The company would not give them the runs as they knew what would happen! I came off the road do to medical, the L/Ps got the route and screwed it up so badly I was getting calls from "my" customers at home about those idiots called "owners" and the company finally lost that account! Somehow those morons that called NYC Forced Dispatch figured out that is wasn't such but managed to screw it up because they just weren't cut out to be real truckers!

 

So it sounds as if you need to take your own advise and get out now. Stop at the next terminal and hurry up grab your things and run for the house because you don't belong.

 

The only way to see the East coast is in the mirror, and at night

 

Ohio is the "east coast" for those of us from Indiana

 

Totally agree with Rollover! Go flip burgers! There's no forced flipping there probably!

If you find yourself complaining and not wanting to go somewhere because it is more of a challenge or you have to shift more gears or something then go home! You are not a truck driver! You managed to scrape by at the CDL mill and are now wondering around from truck stop to truck stop not even realizing that your company is making you sit more and more cause refuse to go places. Do yourself a huge favor and quit now!