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Tlea hows your new gig going?

 

Most of the time going good, has its ups and downs, and having the dispatch in bakersfield CA, and them not understanding winter weather does bring up some interesting discussions, about is a load of oil worth the risk of driving on sheets of ice? or sliding down an 8% grade on a dirt/muddy road?

I enjoy the job, home everyday.

 

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Frogmeister. I'm not sure what you are talking about. I have never had a late load unless due to circumstances beyond my control. If your time is worth so little that you would bust your butt every day for 21 days for .02 per mile, more power to you. I can run miles with anyone, my record is 632 in 10.5 hours on an e-log, 62mph governed Stevens truck. At 350 a week I have no incentive to make money for the company as a slave. Not interested. Now that I will be making per mile pay that is a different story. This trainee trainee team stuff has NOTHING to do with training, it is just a way for the company to move freight cheaply. I ran the loads they gave me and made on time delivery, for them to tell me I should be doing at least 350 miles a day (700 for the team) while restricting the hours we can run is ludicrous. 350 miles a day amounts to getting paid a little more than .14 a mile. Not this bear.

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To me that is very much the wrong attitude to have. But thats me. When I was training I wanted every single mile I could get. Hit 600+ miles in a day on my 3rd day out and ran as hard as I could every day. It has more than paid off after training.

 

As I said, T & T has nothing to do with training. If I had been out with a finish trainer it would have been different, and since I am a rehire it's not like I need the experience. I took advantage of every chance I got to practice my backing, which is the area I never got training in the first or second time through the training program. This isn't an "attitude". it's just math. As an Alliance driver, would you take a repower that offered 200 miles while giving up a load with 2000 miles? Not on your life, why? because it makes no financial sense. The math shows mr that burning miles only benefits the company. This is just a way for them to make some extra profit. I have no problem with that to the extent that I made sure the loads got there on time, made sure my truck mate knew how to do trip sheets( none of his trainers taught him, he had three different ones). I made sure he knew how to trip plan, also never taught except in class. I think I more than gave my moneys worth. Considering my first team mate had to be sent back to the yard and then decided to go home. I spent a week trying to train him to drive, and personally think whoever his trainers were that signed off on him should be fired as trainers. He was basically untrainable and had no business being behind the wheel of a semi. So I have been out for 28 days instead of the standard 21 since it wouldn't have been fair to my new co driver for me to come back early.

Anyway, that's all behind me now. Tomorrow I will find out if I can keep this truck I'm in or if I need to move to a new one. This one has already been through the safety lane and the shop so is ready to leave as soon as I finish up clearing.

 

I agree Corp,the wrong attitude.Lets run this load halfass and let the guy repowering it have all the headache of humping his ### to make sure its on time. Its not about math fozzy.Any semi intelligent person can do the math.Its about attitude and work ethic.I cant tell you how many loads I had to repower and save because some other driver didnt want to do what was necessary to keep the freight on time.Be it not wanting to run at night,didnt want to go to a certain area,so they run it behind.what ever the case maybe.I didnt say you were going to be late on the load.But lets say you wake up in the morning a little late for whatever reason,your now over a 100 miles out.quess what your late.Or theres a problem with your truck,would be a lot easier to save that load closer to the receiver than farther out.Do you see the point.Its about work ethic and doing whats right.If I had to quess your probably a lot younger than me.Im not on here to bust your chops fozzy,I just work with a different attitude.I had a trainer with an ungoverned truck,on one day I ran over 700 miles my 3rd week of training.Lets do the math on that.Thats about 7 cents a mile.Never gave it a thought.Why because it wasnt important.The load needed to move,thats what was important.And gaining the experience.The attitude of Im not going to do that because they are not paying me to do that is not the one they are looking for.It tells them you cant be counted on.Now your probably saying,well Im just here for training and Im going to move on.Well you take your habits with you every where you go.But if you were a hiring manager,and you had to evaluate yourself on those work ethics you showed in that post,would you hire yourself,just saying.Stevens is there to train yoy,so you can move on to a better job in the future.Do you not feel you owe them something for that.I would hope you do.I felt like I did.Regardless of what they are paying you,you are obviously there for whatever reason you have.They have given you the opportunity to further yourself in this profession,you owe them something for that dont you think.

 

Work ethic is lost on so many people today.
Young kid, "i need a job"
old man, "I will pay you what you are worth"
young kid , " I won't work for that"...

sums up the attitude of today's work force.

Stevens is a training company. They are taking a big risk training, and that is why the wages are less. With the right attitude, and the ability to learn the system, one can make a decent living.

As a solo driver for 4 years plus, I always ran the load, regardless of where it was going, except for Canada. Then it was give it up to a Canada driver as soon as possible. Now as a solo, repowers where a problem, as I usually got the short end of the deal, and being lied to left a very bad taste in my mouth about repowers.

As for the planners, Meat was my friend, and I would run the loads and make the deliveries. Even the Jetro multi stops in and around NYC...
I also had a good relationship with the Northeast, and was always willing to help him out on a short load, as he always backed it up with a good load afterwords. He even got me home from boston, when my DM could not. I saved more heinz loads for him than I can count.

Laredo, usually would drop whatever I had at the yard, and grab a loaded trailer headed out. Only spent 1 night in laredo in 4 years, and that was because I was totally out of hours on my 70. I was never picky about where I went from Laredo.

when running early, I never depended on Stevens to reset the appointment, I would call the receiver and ask if they would like their delivery early. Many times I could deliver early. A professional attitude was the key, and I never stated up front that I was the driver. Stevens attitude was, they would look for a repower, or leave you sit for a day or two.

 

Maybe some of you need to go back and read over the posts again and stop making up repowers that never happened.

 

Fozzy, I am pretty sure this is the post that everyone has been referring to and the last thing you mention is the load being repowered