How long is too long waiting for your truck to get fixed?

Now you know as well as I do they can afford to pay more for layover then they do.They're making a killing off the drivers.Driver has bills too.If it isn't his fault for the trk breaking down then companies should pay a fair amount of layover pay.

 

Lol @ $35 per day.

They probably have drivers rolling with wacked out equip, scared to get "breakdown" pay...
Longest I was ever out of my co. truck was two weeks cause of the transmission.
After 7 days they put me in a temp. until the repair was done.

 

More reason for a carrier to maintain their equipment. I get paid more than $300 a day if I was broke down, yet not once have I entertained a thought of intentionally putting my truck out of order. If I am not at my house, I expect to be making money. A replacement/rental truck can be obtained fairly easy if my carrier is concerned about them not making any revenue.

 

Must be some type of warranty stuff? They have a good shop over in West Memphis who probably would have fixed it if it wasn't warranty.

 

Yea PTL is not a bad company to work for, you just have to get used to the way they do things. They don't hassle their drivers a lot like some companies do. Do what you're supposed to and you wont hear a word out of them.

 

My truck just had a transmission get swapped at freightliner. It took 3 days.

 

35 to sit and watch TV all day, sweeeeet!


Sorry, flashed back to the 80's for a second there.

 

If he doesn't have anything else to do, then as Einstein once said, "Time is relative."

 

We sat in a hotel for two weeks then our company got us a rental car home.

Sitting around in a hotel getting paid $35 sounds good but with food and other expenses..... your left with not a whole lot to make it worth it. I would rather be at home.

 

Had a Shaker pop the head at 119k. Told the company that I wanted to go home. They told me to wait. I told them that they don't pay enough money to wait. I started blowing up phones. They agreed to $120 per day PLUS room.

Cool! I will sit til hell freezes!

Every day, they asked me if I went to check on the truck. I told them that I rode the shuttle and nothing was happening. They'd call the dealer and the dealer (in Dallas) would always tell them that they were waiting for a part to come from Forth Worth. I would then have the shuttle go on a beer run for me.

I sat there from July 17th to the 3rd week in August. Every day, same routine. Ride by the Shaker dealer, see my truck sitting in the corner, told the driver to keep on going. Get some beer and man fuel, go back to the motel and sit out by the pool and drink beer. Ride by the Peelot once a week and scan in a paysheet and the motel receipts. On the weekends, the bedbuggers would check in the motel in force, and we would grill out at the pool and drink.

A couple things:

As a company driver, I was hell on wheels. I was, according to Safety, in the top 3 out of 2400 when it came to running the miles. I turned the miles, delivered the loads, didn't ever need anything but my next load. I wont call unless there's something I need. If I called, there was something wrong. Don't put me on hold. I will blow the phone circuits up.
The reason why I am stating this is because if your record is towards the bottom instead of the top, or you're problematic and your temper overloads your mouth at shippers and receivers, you don't want to play the 'squeaky wheel gets oiled' card.