typical meat plant

Until the load is actually ready the driver has no control over the planning. It is up to the load planners/CSR/dispatcher to do their job correctly before a driver can do theirs. It is also up to Tyson et al to do their jobs correctly and honor the deadlines.

 

Ah... no.

We charge them $200 an hour after DDT. You'd be surprised how detention changes their attitude.

 

I spent almost 4 years leased to a meat hauler. Best place I ever worked. They decided on qualcomm. I spent 6 months watching my clock tick away in the dock while going broke.

Those of you guys and gals that can run the EOBR clock will do fine. I however cannot run that kind of retarded. I can run long and I can run hard, but I can't run some kind of ever changing clock like that thing created. Eff'ed with my.....whatever that rhythm thing is called, not sure how it is spelled.

No human being should ever have to be subjected to that sort of stupidity.

 

That sort of stupidity is called running legally in accordance with the HOS regulations. Ya mean, you can't manage to be legal?

 

I guess I'm "lucky" that I can switch up my sleep cycle quick and don't really require a whole lot of sleep so E-logs don't really bother me too much but it was definately an adjustment when we went on them. I love Tyson's appointment scheduling methodology sometimes too. A couple of weeks ago I had a delivery out in Seattle on a Saturday, my bills and the load info on the QC all said 0600 when I knew full well they didn't open up until 1000 on Saturday's. Made my check call to Dakota Dunes and was already 2 hours deep into detention pay before I even bumped the dock!

 

Dont haul reefer but go to Tyson, Cargill, JBS here in Iowa.

Always the same. Bunch of bobtails sitting around waiting for loads. All trucks waiting have plenty of mts sittin around. You meat haulers earn it. As far as going legal, until the trucking companies put thier foot down and start charging detention like they should it will continue. Im sure they are treading lightly as some other company will come along and take this crap and not charge detention then there goes the account.


Three things I saw at Ottumwa yesterday. The first could have caused some production problems. Beings as it was hot there were a larger than usual number of pigs not making it off of the truck due to heat. This plant by far has less downers and dead pigs than any I go to. Second thing was a CRE driver trying to find status on his load. Been there since 1700 the day before and that was his pick up time. It was 1500. Third was a Shaffer driver at the gaurd shack at his pick up time. Gaurd informed him it wouldnt be ready till sometime tomorrow. He asked why and her response was they didn't have time to load it! It wasn't so much what was said but how it was said. If people only knew what it took to get that pork chop on the table!

Hats off to you guys

 

I feel sorry for those drivers at tyson.I haul for tyson but all mine is drop and hook.Each round takes approx 4.50 hrs and many times I see the same trks still sitting after I return.

 

Do you run shuttle? Dakota City? to where?

 

A small fact that many drivers do not know. As soon as we drop a trailer at tyson, that trailer becomes tyson's to use as they see fit, and tyson pays rent to the carrier for that trailer as long as the trailer is on tyson's property. The carrier is getting paid, but many drivers are not.

 

I don't like Tyson. Smells like feces and carcass there and they're never ready on time... ever.