Whats your 20, interstate drivers?

Just curious: Do the planners try to give you a local run before something decent? I could understand if I was somewhere without a lot of trucks but I'm in Fontana!! Every 5th truck here is a day cab!?! If they want me to do local work, fine, but in Tacoma where I get the benefit of being local (pay, hot meals, hotter wife)...

 

yeah... I hate when they start using me as a local driver, i dont get paid as a local so dont run me as one... then we are just cheap labor. I posted before, where they sent me a load from IL to MO, I was hooked up to the loaded trailer about to head out, and I get a local run out of Mccook, 2 hours after I get the one Im currently doing, and i say I cant do that. his response is why not you have to, it goes with the other one you got, whoever does one has to do the other... wtf??? so why was it sent 2 hours later, and Im loaded, so you want me to take this trailer an hour east back to chicago, to do a local and then get back on the road with this one? after that he was like nevermind Ill let the planners know... sometimes these people dont think, but like I said, cheaper to get us to run local stuff when we're gettin paid mileage and only going 30 or so miles even tho its taking us like 3 hrs if you are live load/unload

 

came back off Hometime today, sat in the truck for about 2 hours with no dispatch, so I sent a message saying i was running out of the truck and to call me if a dispatch was sent. there were 2 other drivers in their trucks at the yard. still sitting at home lol

 

Yeah, I don't leave the house til they dispatch me... but I live 5 min from the yard.

 

the bread pudding there, is HUGE! i thought ok just a small piece or something, it came in a big salad bowl that looked like a meal itself.

 

in burley, ID. pulling coors up to portland, OR which doesnt deliver until monday morning but was told I might be able to drop it at the yard out there. hope so cause I plan on being there tomorrow and if I cant drop it Im gonna be sitting there for 2 days. only took the load cause they didn't have anything leaving denver heading east, first time out here with this company, dont plan on ever coming back either lol

 

at the yard in wilsonville ( I think?) for any of you that are based out of this place.... so sorry.... this place is just a big dirt hole with waaay too many trucks and trailers. cant wait to get out of here and back east

 

Sux, huh? I have to drops there occasionally.