Safety Observations, and explanations for idling?

DM's are like mentors in a way.
There are some very good ones and some very bad ones.
The bad one's usually have a god complex, like someone just mentioned about certain mentors.

He has been my DM for over 4 years, and I would not trade him (or any of the people at Otay Mesa) for anyone.
I live in MN now, and the people at Inver Grove have always been very good to me as well. But I see no greener pastures than what I have right now.
That even goes for other companies.

 

You were flatbed right? Let me guess your DM was Dave in Gary?

 

It's not important on this forum who my DM was. I can say that the Gary terminal needs a serious makeover with respects to driver comfort. I know that a lot of the big people in flatbed are at Gary. The crane scheduler guy, Ed. The planner of Hungarian decent Tibbi. The weekend DM for the whole flatbed fleet, Jeannette.

The biggest secret out there is how much does a DM make? Never could get that info with 100% accuracy. I will never drive for Swift again. Sure they pay better than some, but there are many other reasons and they are people reasons.

 

Who cares? Neither of us work there anymore just call it like it is.

Ed is more than just the crane scheduler he heads the gary/east coast flatbed division. He was a pretty fair dude in my dealings with him. Jeanette was one of the laziest and least helpful people I dealt with. Dave and Perry are miserable people and I know of multiple drivers who have quit because of their BS.

But I was a phoenix driver and any time I had a problem I could talk to Chris morgan, Chris drown, or brett Stewart and I would be taken care of. These were all good dudes and the reason I stayed with swift flatbed for as long as I did was because of the great support I got. And I left on good terms. But I saw gary as a cancer in terms of morale and driver treatment that's why I figured you were a gary driver under Dave to have the experience you did.