Almost sent to Missouri in a daycab, really Werner?

Your complaining about this? Go pickup the load, find a hotel (regardless of what the dispatcher says) and come home the next day.

 

I ran a daycab for almost 2 years running over the road..
You should of taken the ld. You re salary, so you should be running.
Talk about being a baby...:smt022

Better hope you don't work out of a work to right state, because your Christmas bounus might be the unemployment line.
Refusal to work.
Explain that to your wife and kids.
Well there will be no Christmas, because your lazy dad got canned for not wanting to work..

Glad you do not work for me...

 

I know a lot of drivers that do stuff like this. Yellow freight does this on a frequent basis out west. Run out 500 miles, get a hotel for the night and then come back the next day. It seems your problem is not the run itself but that you won't be re-reimbursed for the hotel. If you keep the receipt you can turn it in. If Werner does not pay it you can write it off of your taxes. If it is not a regular thing then I'd do it for a 'what the heck, free vacation in a hotel'.
I would be turned off by the "Your the only driver that can do it" tripe. I might have tried it right up until that line then hung up on them. I'm not 5, don't pull something like that out. When I heard a lie like that I would have said to myself " What else is he/she not telling me here"? I havn't heard this line since I quit driving for a major carrier several years ago but used to hear it on a frequent basis and just tuned it out. I'm not surprised a major is still throwing it around.

 

500 miles to get there, 500 back, and they are getting you a motel instead of one of their crummy sleeper trucks, and you are gonna complain about that? I'd be telling them to gimme the keys!!

Seems funny to me that millions of people are out of work because of their company going under or the jobs going to china, yet i run into a lot of people that have jobs but act like they don't want to work or do the jobs. I sometimes have gripes about management decisions where I've worked, but i just went and ran the load figuring the best way to get out of that task was to DO IT AND GET IT DONE. If you are thinking you're just going to run 400 miles a day, during daylight hours and only in good weather ,sleep all nite in the truck stops after shoveling money into those stupid video games(especially the cherry masters or that idiotic horse racing game....), hanging out at the lunch counter spinning trucker tales and chasing lot lizards, obviously you didn't learn much out of that ######## driving school. Good luck on returning to your previous career of repeating "you want fries with that? at booger king.

 

The odds of Werner putting the guy up in a hotel were slim to none. Who in their right mind would be willing to sleep in a day cab that is meant for home daily work? The trick about putting the guy up in a hotel is the same as the trick about take this load and don't worry about your hours since the unload will only take 30 minutes and then you will be on your way down the road trick. Thats right it never happens but once you accept the load its to bad, you are stuck with it now. Mega's get away with to much non-sence the way it is so kuddos to the op for standing his ground.

 

The other thing, is if you do it one time, then it's expected of you to do it EVERY time. "well, you did it a week ago, why not now"? kinda thing.

 

snowman01. Like the sig. pic...

 

I love my wife too

 

right

 

Well where in Mo is the question. If drop/hook, you could get to St. Louis and back in about 8 1/2 hours. If Kansas City, Springfield or somewhere in western or southern Mo then it's a different story.