Help with Roehl and trip planning

Thanks for the replies, I want to address them at some point. Right now, I just can't believe what has happened.

14/7 fleet, I'm scheduled to come back to work the day before Thanksgiving. I said to my fleet manager and then her boss, 'hey, it's Thanksgiving, let the truck sit there a couple more days and bring me back the day afterward. No doubt in the course of the year there will be times when I can give those two days back and possibly much more. I know there are 14/7 drivers who aren't rotating with anyone and their trucks sit somewhere the entire week they are off.'

"No", was their answer. "it's policy".

So, they run me up the road the day before Thanksgiving. I just got my preplan, I'm supposed to sit all day Thanksgiving not earning money so I can pick up a load in the same city where I delivered the day after Thanksgiving. A 286 mile gold mine.

There is no company this dysfunctional and soulless. It's not possible. I'm starting to think I'm Jonah, I'm just in the wrong place and there is nothing I can do to make it right.

The comedy never ceases. I've driven Queens, the Bronx, Long Island, the GW. Atlanta, Chicago, LA. Mountains. Snow. Snowy Mountains. Not a DOT accident in over a million miles. This trainer flunks me on my road test driving around the block. I had to re-test a couple days later.

It's not Roehl, right? It's me. God won't leave me alone...It's nice to find God cares about what appears to be the most humble and insignificant of human existence.

 

They know, they know everything. He wasn't ready to fire me, I wasn't quite ready to quit. I just don't have a back up plan right now.

My last job was successful and I had a great time talking to the operations manager the day I left. But, I left for a reason, milk hauling, I never knew when I'd get a day off until the day prior. If I go back, same deal, I wasn't happy about it then and I wouldn't be happy about it now.

Trust me, my fm and her boss, we've done some talking. No one should be confused about anything. I've laid out the numbers, 12 working hours to go 600 miles- that's Roehl or it isn't.

I came back to work an hour early today. I brought lunch with me. I ate my lunch while I was driving, I made it to my delivery 15 minutes early. And no, no other stops except to buy a drink and nature calls.

 

You drive for Roehl, right? The reason I ask, you make it sound like I'm getting those 1200 mile and 1800 mile trips. My time is gobbled up unloading, deadheading and loading every single day. You use up 14 hours, there's no play.

You're eating while you are driving and taking sponge baths. I don't know, man, I did the Marine Corps once, already. I shouldn't be surprised, though, I watched all the unexperienced drivers during orientation sitting across the room from the three of us with experience. They were in bootcamp, they were up every night in study groups. They were stressed, none of them knew if they would make it. Oddest thing, I've been to too many orientations, I never saw anything like it.

 

There was a time I was concerned about running my mouth on a message board. Now, I don't even care. Oh, and yes, Gary.

Idk, no one from operations welcomed us to the company during orientation, that's unique to Roehl, too. If this company has a soul I have yet to find it. I just don't know. Me? The company? God? I just have no idea.

 

I don't remember what my instructors said 16 years ago.