If you love your wife, avoid CR England

I would add, they should also be required to publish their dispatch policies. The method(s) they use to determine which driver gets a load next. That's assuming there even is one

 

England claims that if two drivers are sitting empty and one is an IC and the other a company driver the IC will always get precedence. I know by experience that this is bull because of the problems I had with my DM in western regional. He flat out told me that we are just truck numbers to him. No difference between company or lease operator.

 

You choosing to fleece doesn't mean your family deserves to eat more then the next guys.

 

No, but if the company sold you a lease, or any other relationship, with the condition of preferred dispatch, then it should give it to you.

Of course the natural question to follow, was that preference stated in the lease?

 

L/O have fixed costs they need to cover unlike a company driver. If I remember correctly my lease with CRE cost me about $125 a day. So if I am sitting waiting for a reload over the weekend I am in the hole not including all the variable costs. I remember from the lease presentations I attended that they always mentioned preferred dispatch over company drivers. They would always use that phrase where it was your business and your in control. Ya right!

 

MS since your qualcomm is having problems and going down some, make sure you write the load info and route solution down. You can google the route once on the laptop if you have to and pull the route around to get it where it needs to be and then leave it hanging in suspended state if you have too (just rememeber that google is not truck friendly). We had a car Garmin to begin with before truckstops really started carrying the truck kind and had addresses in new areas that it would not pull up; Commerce, Industrial, are some names I used to get us in the right area with a via point, I think the Garmin was easier to do this with back then and the ability to scroll in easier also.

He had a windshield replaced at Laredo one time, didn't take very long for the truck to get there or them to do the work.

 

I'm hoping he left with his trainer standing in the spot waiting for him.