Please Lord, Deliver Me From USA Truck

Yes, it's very normal.

 

WELCOME TO TRUCKING...HAVE A SIT.:smt035

 

Sounds like a typical bottom-feeder outfit.

 

The problem is when a company (or government) gets so large that efficiency and productivity become major problems. These companies begin to crumble under their bloated largess, and thus lose market share, then smaller companies see the opportunity and take it, grow, become large and buckle under its own weight, and the cycle continues.

I work for a company that has 30-40 trucks and I never have problems with my paycheck. In fact, I picked up a load in east TN, going to Chicago area to del on Monday. I was cleared to take the load home with me to Michigan, then deliver Monday in Chicago.

I never went home that weekend, really had no reason to go home, and just sat in Remington, IN the whole weekend. I never put on the trip envelope that I went home, yet they still paid me for it without me asking. Honestly, I didn't think I should have been paid the extra 300 miles for going home, since I didn't, but they are serious about keeping drivers and making them happy....so I guess that's how they roll.

It isn't that these companies are ran by a bunch of incompetent ######## who don't care about their drivers, they may very well care about their drivers as much as is prudent, but they have become so large that it is simply impossible for them to make good on their promises. They've become trapped under their own weight - the pressure to hire and hire and hire and hire to fill the trucks of those who keep quitting - they have contracts to fulfill, customers to take care of, drivers screaming for miles, investors, in some cases, looking for their ROI, etc etc etc. The pressure is on for them to keep bringing in the dough - and its unfortunate that drivers often get the bad end of this deal.

The solution is to just not work for these companies.

The ones I feel sorry for the most, after the drivers, are the dispatchers who deal with the drivers who keep screaming on the other end of the phone about things these dispatchers have almost no control over. This has to be one of the most stressful jobs in the world.

I also think better logistics planning will help things go smoother. But when you have 1,000+ trucks to plan, lol, what a mess...no computer program can sufficiently plan that, with all the unexpected problems that happen.

 

I've worked for a small companies of 25 trucks and large ones with several thousand including Swift and Schneider where my check was right every week. I've worked for other ones including the one I'm with now and its wrong every few weeks. I have to call my boss and the missing stuff is put in the next pay period. Its a pain but it does force me to look at my check every week.

 

i always liked stopping in remington, i'd be cutting across the woods from kankakee. i'd park at the mcdonalds,cheap eatin,decent coffee.

 

Is that right??

 

Great post!

Thanks for spelling "Lose" correctly lol. I read so many posts spelling "lose" as "loose" that when I read yours, I found myself thinking you had misspelled it lol.

 

you need a new employer.