Stevens Transport aviary

don't laugh... I have had the destination city of Anchorage Alaska, Honolulu Hawaii, Soul South Korea and Vladivostok Russia. they were all the final destination of the load.

 

Greensboro NC KFS Enterprises or somethimg like that.

 

I put Honolulu as a stop on a trip plan recently to see if anyone actually reads them. No comments or questions were forthcoming.

 

Whats a trip plan?

 

If I were you, I would do a 34 when I got to Cali. Hubby used to get in a 3 week shuffle when he was driving solo and would get to Cali because he was running on recap hours. He would chase produce, get to Kingman, sometimes as far as Moriarty, then would repower to a trainer & right back to Cali he would go.

 

An elaborate work of fiction carefully crafted in a 5 minute period between signing for your bills and departure.

 

repowered three drivers off really good loads tonight. One gave up more than 2200 miles...GA to ID.
All because they didn't trip plan. Two of the three could have been made if they worked hard. But they didn't and only ran 9 or 10 hrs the first couple days, didn't roll right away when they got the load.
One kept insisting he could make it. 1373 miles due tomorrow evening, and he only had 3 hrs left today he could run.
So we all may joke about them, but trip plans can make or break a load.
Also, two other drivers ended up in deep kimshee because they burned their loads. Again...could have been made, but drivers were inattentive and didn't plan their trips.
Not saying you need to do it as they make you do it in grad fleet, but knowing how hard you need to run, how far each day and where you're going to fuel and stop makes a big difference.
You guys wouldn't believe how many calls I get from drivers that go something like this: "I'm almost out of fuel. What should I do?"
I always go back to the old axiom: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

 

I joke about it but I do trip plan every load. Can't really live on recap hrs if you don't. Plans are usually dead nuts on target too. That is one area I have always been good at.

 

"I'm almost out of fuel. What should I do?"

My answer would be:> Pull into the next truck stop and park it, you should find a space next to the ummmm . . fuel islands, that truck is done. We're sending you a new truck that has fuel in the tanks to replace it.

Emul: I don't know how you hold your composure when dealing with idiots.

 

Why, oh Why, oh Why doesn't management 'weed out' the idiots that continuously burn their loads??? We talked to a few DMs that had drivers on their fleet that always had to be repowered. If management would 'crack down' the company could run much more efficiently and have fewer problems with their 'key' accounts.