My Training and First Year, follow me and ask me anything

Well Drop Dead time has come and gone....shipper is way behind apparently, gonna end up with an unintentional reset apparently. I guess the only good news is I started getting detention pay of 20 bucks an hour once drop dead time passed. But the window for on time delivery is quickly closing...need to be on road by 0030'ish to have any chance of making it....and it is 2100 right now.

Guess they will be working a repower for me if all else fails.....sucks, never had to have one of my loads repowered and I have yet to be late.....guess there is a first time for everything.

 

AJB....exactly this

 

Well that load ended up being 14 hours past drop dead time before I was released with it. Drop dead time at SRT is the point you can start collecting detention pay....14 hours at 20 bucks an hour, 280 bucks....dispatcher told me to fax him my slip for it, soon as i did money put right on my comdata card.

So i left at 630 am with the load, get 90 minutes up road and they are repowering load, drive to whiteland indiana and wait at flying hooker for other driver. So I do the 520 miles, pull in and park. Go inside, use restroom and grab some salad dressing from dennys so I can make a salad....had stopped at wally world couple days ago to restock cooler.

Walk outside and this neanderthal was standing on my running boards using a rubber mallet to bang on side of my truck.....later find out he was doing that and yelling for 5 minutes or so from driver parked across from me. So I start y3lling, and he says he is my swap....well why are u banging on my truck....well i knocked but you didnt answer.....ok, so maybe i was inside.....maybe, just making sure.....

Uh, yeah....well no damage to truck, and too tired to start in on another driver, but I did report him to safety after I had left.

He gets my load heading right into all that snow in pennsylvania....serves him right.

His load was a 2 stop....1st stop 2 miles from truckstop at 8am monday (today) second 8am tuesday in university park illinois 190 miles away....not happy about those miles, but whatever headed away from that blizzard thats heading the east coast way.

Dropped this morning at a kroger dc....100 buck lumper fee for 20 minutes of work lol....unions....get comcheck to them and head towards illinois. Pulled into fuelstop about 30 miles short of delivery in Indiana, fuel up and decide this is a good spot for shower, food, and sleep....wake up in the morning to head to delivery.

 

Its not that with elogs....they can look at it in real time now, they will repower your load without you even asking for it because the new system will flag it based on drive hours and miles left to delivery and some other variables.

But, i was very proactive in asking from the start to either switch my appointment or repower because it was not my fault it was going to be late. If you ask ahead of time they usually wont count it against you....its the ones who dont ask or dont realize they are running late because of poor trip planning or they cant keep their doors closed as the move down the road.

 

Just got told to drop this in a dropyard and pickup an empty