Taking Care of Drivers

I had posted this on another thread and was encouraged to post it on a new thread here. I am not going to give any names.....for privacy reasons and because no company is perfect. This is a good small company out of the St. Louis area with decent pay and like all companies it has things that are good and things that are not so good. Finding the perfect driving job is like finding a spouse that you would never have a disagreement with .....not gonna happen! It's just a nice small company that did the right thing and I wanted you to know that there are jobs out there where they know your name and not just your truck number.... and they know when something is wrong and will try to make it right.

• I get to tell you all about drivers and companies that have their heart in the right place.....funny that this happened today when the discussion has been about drivers that are jerks.
  
  The company that the King works for now is all company drivers with the exception of an older driver with years of experience that is an owner operator. They have a requirement that every driver call into the office by 10am on weekdays. Yesterday the O/O did not make his check in call and they couldn't get him on his phone.....nor did he call in this morning. They were having no luck in locating him. The King had just got back to the yard so they sent him out from this end and had another driver start working his way back to where they thought our missing driver could be. They found him, about 200 miles out from the yard, truck still running, slumped over the wheel....thankfully they found him in time! And thankfully the company took matters into their own hands in finding their missing driver. They got the driver taken care of, his truck taken care of and took care of the driver's little dog.​
  
  
  
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  See!!! Now that's what a good company will do for their drivers, look out for them as much as possible, and treat them fairly. Not going to say how many miles I drove this week but will say this, my paycheck was within 7 miles of what I actually did.
  
  HTQ, glad they found him and that Da King was willing to be a part of it.​
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Okay ...so I left the funny part out ....because I am a wife. As they were getting this driver taken care of the King gets me on the phone to tell me that they found the other driver. He was semi-coherent, so the King tells him I have my wife on the phone and I will have her call your wife to tell her what happened. The driver said ...."Oh God NO! Just take care of my dog and my truck. I am happily married but if you call my wife she might show up here!" .....​
  
  
  
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You know, the friend that encouraged me to put this in a separate post told me to name the company so that they could be credited for it. I had several reasons for not doing so.

It is just something that happened recently that shows that not all companies treat their drivers like a piece of equipment to be used and thrown away. To encourage drivers that love to drive but feel as if there are no companies worth driving for anymore to continue to look and not give up. The company is a small one, they are not hiring 30 drivers every week to replace the drivers that they ran off. They are pretty low key and don't advertise because they don't have to. They didn't do this to receive credit for anything or a pat on the back, they did it out of concern for their driver and of course for the load he was under also.
I hesitated to put this out here because I am not a driver nor am I an employee of this company and I didn't know if it was my place to do this if they weren't looking for any accolades for themselves and I didn't know if they would appreciate me posting about this. As I said it was more a post to encourage those that are frustrated by the grind that they deal with everyday. I also felt that anyone that was interested would send me a message or ask me to message them, that way I would not be violating anyone's privacy.
I was just trying to handle this in a respectful manner and not be like so many on here that have spent so much time alone that they have forgotten how to be polite. Some days I don't have the patience to be very diplomatic with people that need to know every small detail so that they can pick it apart ....but you caught me on a good day.