Shaffer Driver Chat Room

What would you like to know, been doing the Shaffer thing since last Aug.

On the Shaffer side of things

Miles are low
Best week was 3280, avg is about 1600-1800 right now.
You have to wait longer most of the time at your pick ups
Unloads can be longer
When your reeffer goes bad, thats another problem, and you hope you do not lose that $50,000 load
Just had a 31.5 hr detention in Ft. Worth TX
Had my share of 200 mile runs and 3 days to get there, then 8 hrs to unload
A lot of people bail from the Shaffer side for all of the above reason's
And if you weigh more than 150 pounds, the sleep test! LOL


brighter side of things

my pick up points seem to be better than dry side
get to see more of the country-side (more back road driving)
no-NYC driving yet!
Just got assigned a driver Mgr (and thats why I am still on the Shaffer side, waiting to see if it is really going to change)

WE-SHALL-SEE

 

Well thats about right for sending people home.

On the sleep lab study, if your neck is larger than 17 and you snore and weigh more than 150 you may be hosed.

On the trks I was issued a 1.5 yr old trk with 189,000 on it.

Miles, the first 3 mths I worked was great, then--- they started to go down, I have herd that frm a lot of people, the higher per mile rate you make the lower the miles, the less you make per mile the more miles you will run.

From what I have seen so far, they have a very hard time keeping people on the reefer side.

You will not get paid to unload your trailer and if they do it will be about 1/3 to 1/2 half what they pay a lumper service.

I am going to hang in there for a few more mths to see if it is going to change, if it does not, I'll jump frm reefers, to much stuff to worry about, and the pay is not right based on the miles in my book and all the wait time, but in most case,s you can get some pay for the wait time.

Any questions feel free to ask.

 

I will start to post miles this week and try to keep this updated.

Heres some more stuff for ya to chew on.

Theres more than 100 reefer trls setting at Lenoir term not being used since Dec, thats 2.8 million dollars not making any money.

When I received my 90 day review 5 months into the job, I found out I will never make the monthly miles to make a pay raise, that did not set well with me.

I was told that on the reefer side 2100 miles is that fleet avg, I was told I should be 2500-3000 a week.

I have run into some drivers that are happy with what they are doing, and run into many more that wished they went dry side.

Also ran into some drivers that haven't had a raise for up to 8 yrs, and now the new drivers coming ing with exp are being paid more than they are.

The Co. is not the worst but they are not the best.

 

Week 8 2160 5 days 34 restart


This week started out bad, 3 days of short runs, had to get on my driver mgr's butt, to get him moving, then he found his stride, setting MI, got here sat night, del is at 0600 mon.

This run was about 550 for the weekend, and I pushed in a restart.

Will not give him an empty call untill my 34 is up at 0845.

Our pay is fri to fri.

 

There is a computer down stairs by the main desk you can use to get on line.

On the sleep study I have been told that they are going to try to give it to all or most of the new drivers coming on board, as part of the phy testing.

What was the cost of the unit to you?, and how much are they going to take out of your pay check each week for how long, and did any one that took the sleep study, not need one?

Post the model # I want to look it up on line?

 

i did well there in 06, Would stay out 24+ days do !0k-11k miles a month. Would be there still if i had not of gotten fired. Oh yea every time you drive more than 3500 miles in 7 days, you get a random..... i did 7, after awhile i knew when it was time before it was time. Made 50K in 11 months 1 week.

PS don't call the Safety Guy "wisker bisquit" he hates that..... and it won't help your situation