Looking for a new company that would get me home for my national guard drills

Check Careerbuilder website for what's available in San Antonio.

 

I hate the very idea of those sensors.
Anything that can control my vehicle in an unexpected manner seems too dangerous to be really useful.

Very often a car will cut in front of me, way too close. I'd rather deal with it myself than have a stupid computer slam the brakes, 'thinking' it is the right thing to do.

As to your need to get home for a particular reason by a certain date, well, if you are OTR you should realize that no company can assure you of that.
It all depends on the freight lines between where you are and where you need to be.
Swift has been very good about getting me 'home' around the time I want to be there. Much more so these past 6-8 months. I'm usually home within +/- 1 day of my requested date.

We also have a 'special home time request' type of thing.
Can't recall what it is actually called, but it is a request that has an 'emergency' status.
We can only use it a few times per year.
If that is used, the planners will do everything short of impossible to get us there on time.

 

At TMC we can get home every week-end...good money as well.

 

Reddove you need to remind Schneider about USERRA. especially since they claim to be a veteran/military friendly company. By law they have to get you home ten hours prior to drill and cannot dispatch until ten hours after your duty day ends on Sunday. It also does not matter if your regional or OTR they have a legal obligation to get you home and it not count against your home time. If they fail to meet this requirement they put themselves in position to receive hefty legal fines. Up until this week I was driving with US Xpress and never had an issue getting home for drills or annual tours. They actually sent me a few cards while I was deployed.

There are other companies as well TMC is good about supporting military and so is CRETE.

 

Melton Truck Lines with terminal in Dallas.

 

Crete also has On-Guard. I wouldn't mind it so much if it was just a warning system and not an active "interloper". Very nice in fog, but mine has hit the brakes hard on several occasions as well.

 

Lawyer for your injuries and these people will stop putting this crap on the trucks !

 

It braked so hard that you tore muscles! That does not sound like safe braking... What if the road conditions were not ideal for full braking? Like rain, snow or ice? Before you know it the trailer is swinging across three lanes of highway traffic or off into a ditch!

I could not travel five minutes here in Chicago without that sensor braking my truck. People cut in from of me with no regard. Some times with less than a car length of space.

Can you ask for an old truck? Heheheee

Mikeeee