how long?

Who Cares what they think or feel..They have proven to you and us here at TTR that they DO NOT VALUE YOU AS A PERSON...

Actions speak louder than words...It's like that one woman we all had at least once..She says she adores and loves you but her actions are sleeping with all your buddies..She has NO RESPECT for you...

This company's actions have spoke volumes..Now it's your turn to SPEAK UP and show them you are not a coward and refuse to be treated like a DOG......!!!!!!!

 

I would put that truck in the wind going north bound after waiting that long!
They won't send you money......screw them!
They probably are to cheap to use DAC anyway not that it would matter to me....
If they can't pay a man at least 100 bucks a day to sit like that they are scum in my book.

If you got a fuel card go stuff the tanks full and hammer down!

 

GP100:
Six days in Laredo, TX, I just passed through there three days ago, we are with CRST. I've been here 30 years now and trust me, don't try to take their truck out of there, you will hurt yourself in the end.

CRST will tell anyone who calls to hire you that you left and legal or not, will divulge why without saying it directly and you will give a new employer a negative mindset from the start and whatever the other company personally feels about CRST will go out the window.

Why don't you ask for a short haul out to Dallas-Fort Worth or to another area of Texas and by that time they should have a load to your area or within a reasonable distance.

 

I know my reply sounds like I'm a company man, while I've been here a long time, I'm my own man but at the same time, I'm a realist, and in no way a optimist.

 

I can't count the frozen broccoli loads I've hauled out of Laredo and have never sat there. It's one of the biggest cross border freight cities there is. They are playing games or the dispatcher has problems. Can't you go over his head and talk with the ops supervisor or even the owner if it is a small company?

Whatever you do wait them out. It might be a bummer now but considering the alternative can chase you for a long time. They have to give sooner or later. That truck makes them money too.

Give them an ultimatum. Either get me rolling by tomorrow if you have to load me in Dallas or Houston or I'm putting her in the wind. I also want some layover pay. They get kind of nervous when you give them a choice. Your goal is to get the truck back to the terminal empty. Once your rolling tell them you need drive tires or something so they route you that way.

Yes, top them tanks off in case they cut the fuel card off and it gets ugly. Try to document your stay there in Laredo with receipts/ log book or something. Then if they scar your DAC or something you have a form of proof they abandoned you and you had to do something or starve.

 

Something smells awfully fishy about their claim they are "getting underbid" as the excuse for not getting a load in a week's time. Methinks they may have "issues" in their sales department and the OP is paying the price.

As a former cost estimator in a variety of industries I can't see the logic of having a truck asset sitting that long chewing up fixed costs without generating some kind of revenue for the company.

OP, have any of the company's paychecks bounced or are there other indications they are not on solid footing? Office staff turnover perhaps? Rats leaving the ship?

 

I can agree with you landstar8891 that he needs to man-up but, I don't think less of anyone for taking the time to ask questions, when you don't know all the answers, and trying to do the right thing,,albeit, a bit on the slow side.

Listen man, call whomever at your company,,,keep going higher and higher, until someone either gets you moving or the next closest terminal to drop the truck off. DON'T JUST LEAVE IT! I repeat, DON'T JUST LEAVE IT! Doing anything like that will not just go on your dac report, it will put a mud pit in front of your next job finding ability's. Sure, you can just "to hell with it" and catch a ride with friend out of there and leave the truck/trailer just sitting at the truck stop but, would that be the "right" thing to do? Would you truly feel ok about that?

All that being said,,,get something done today! Take charge of the situation and do what you got to... You should know where the closest terminal is, if not ask around and if the company won't give you permission to go to the terminal and drop truck,,,,well, you have done all you can with the company, go anyway.

 

My hubby was in this situation with a company and after 2 days he told them he was rolling toward the terminal. They could find him a load or he was turning in his notice!! 10 min later he had a load!! There is no reason for them to treat u like that!! Unless they are putting U up in a hotel and paying layover!!

 

Had the same thing happen to me ONCE. Close to Thanksgiving and couldn't get a load for 3 days. Day 4 called up AM nope. Told them the truck is headed North loaded or mty and hung up. Called back 2 hours later Northbound. Nope. Hung up. Went in ate. Called up It's your favorite truck driver,got a load. Don't hang up,don't hang up. They found a load going North. It was a miracle. Swear to god.

 

When I was in the National Guard I was stuck with no load and needed to be home that night. The load I had getting me close to home was already putting me getting home late, now they were not allowing me any sleep before drill.... After thinking about it for a little bit, I really find it hard that anyone, would sit somewhere for 6 days, no money, no food, no hotel, no woman, no kids, no if-come money,,,,I mean really? Even my humble preacher would of done something after a couple days...lol