still a broke driver

Thanks I made it myself, I shoulda been an artist

 

havent seen you around much. glad its gking good.

i spent two of the worst months of my life in an automatic truck once upon a time.

 

its alllll the military uses...they have been pretty reliable for us. Biggest drawback is its abilities in an automatic vs stick, that and the new slowwer soldier's couldnt figure out how to shift..lol

 

I want my stick shift back. Yeah it's nice to not have to clutch, but ####. This thing sucks!!

 

LOL, I drove an auto for a half a day as a loner to go and P/U a load while my tractor was in the shop. Man, what a joke. The worst is trying to back the #### thing, what a pain in the ###. I know with practice it'll get better, but it looks like you have absolutely no clutch control trying to back that POS.

 

backing with an auto isnt difficult. like a stick, once your used to it its easy

 

Well yeah, but driving it for 4 hours for the first time I looked totally clueless

 

Your problems with detention, are being caused by something. Detention is automatic and based on your QC macros. Your DBL doesn't control that. They can "fix" it though.

Detention works like this, you start getting it after your second hour at the customer... Arrival Macro-- time at customer --- Departure Macro.

Don't get the bright idea of getting to the customer 4 hours early, then spending 3 hours unloading. Thinking you're going to get 5 hours detention. It won't happen.

There are instances that you will need to contact your DBL concerning detention.

Case in point -- I arrived at the customer at 20:00 as dispatched. Sent my arrival...then was promptly put out of the gate, until the next morning.

Overnight, I was taken off the load. Then given another at the same customer. This demands a new arrival Macro. Which resets the clock to ZERO.

When I finally had a load (at another customer). I had spent 20 hours at the original customer. I was sent to the new customer for another load, and another new "Arrival Macro".

Due to "arrivals" cancelling each other out. I had ZERO detention time.

Everything was converted to "lay over" pay by DBL. Which sucked really. Because they went the cheapest way out of the situation.

Bottom Line: Stay on top of everything. Get a notebook to compliment your Pumpkin pad. Document everything, with times in and out. Load numbers. And miles....which are listed in the dispatch information....in multiple locations. Once in the P/U info. Deadhead is in the "equip disp" if you have one.

I've only had to call payroll a couple of times over the past year.