Unproductive/low paying loads

If it's one of your company's regular customers they negotiate the runs. We'll give you these 10 good runs but you have to cover these 3 bad runs too.

Guess what? You're a newbie grunt and newbie's get the fun runs.

Every driver has to pull their fair share of bad runs. Like I've posted before your attitude and relationship with your dispatcher means a lot. You might have been the only driver in the area. Why should they have you drop it and pawn the load off on an experienced driver?

Then there might of been three drivers in the area and three loads available. The two other drivers are experienced, have been with the company a while and have a good track record. Guess who gets the good loads and who gets the bad one? They certainly aren't putting the newbie on the best run.

Earn your stripes, be on time and dependable and one day you'll be that driver on the top. That doesn't mean you won't get bad runs, just less of them. Meanwhile be patient and don't give the dispatcher a hard time.


To me that sounds like a lazy planner that didn't push to negotiate delivery times in a timely manner. They just accepted what was given them. Some of these busy customers have heavy traffic and that's the way the cookie crumbles. Some places an appointment is just a formality. You can sometimes show up and get worked in. Try calling the receiving yourself and see what the deal is and if you can deliver early. I can't count the loads I was given an appointment time only to find out the customer doesn't have appointments.

 

Welcome to Over The Road Truck Driving, you are an on call travelling worker, we will use you when we need you, if required you would babysit our equipment with no pay. Thank you. Oh, and you can only go home a certain amount of days, whatever we consider adequate.

 

That sums it up...

 

This company sounds almost like Werner.I would get a long load only to swap it a few miles down the road.Took my 10 then take that load 100 miles down the road swap that took another long brk.Then take it to the terminal and wait a couple days for a load.

 

Not worth it Patti..I am an O/O and 99% of my runs are profitable.I will never drive a ''company OTR'' truck..They are RIPPING these guys off..

 

I hear that as to why im going to try a different type of trucking when I go back otr and tha ist tanker division.

 

Did you call your dispatch and request a better drop time, or a re-schedule? If you're working for a forced dispatch company, it's possible they'll stack a nice 1,500 mile trip on you after you help out with a POS schedule. Trucking income is an averaging process. Some trips are better than others, and in a month or a quarter, they average out. What that average is, that's up to you. If you aren't making ends meet, find somebody else to drive for, or maybe buy a nice used truck for your own purposes. Remember, all companies, large and small, exist only to make profit. Driving for yourself, you can keep that profit, if you're smart and lucky. And keep rolling. No money is made a truck stops.

 

You are crying about this load, man you don't know what a bad load is and when you get one that cost you a week's worth of potential money, then you can complain.

This isn't trucking, this is learning.

No one promised you to make great money all the time and assuming you are a company driver, you have little choice with the matter but can work within the time frame and with a couple phone calls.

As mentioned, you should have called dispatched, rescheduled the loads to get it all your truck as soon as you can and then worry about making more money later on.

 

This is why always dreaded multi-stop loads when pulling a van or a reefer. The stop pay is NOTHING compared to the loss in productivity. The company is making several hundred dollars per stop so they are doing well. Just do your time and start pulling a tank or a flatbed. I pull a tank and I leave home with the sole intention of returning home in 4 or 5 days with a GOOD paycheck deposited into my bank account. Lifes too short so look out for yourself.

 

You went to that company and applied for a job did you not. Or did the company come to your house and beg you to work and work is the key word here for them.I do not mean to sound bitter but you guys drive me nuts.