When is enough.....enough? Small company problem.

OK back story: I started with this small company hauling crude in west Texas. That went to pot so I transferred over to their gasses division and relocated to Houston.

There's two of us down here and we are both salary. There's enough work for one and a half trucks. It was gravy work with us switching responsibility to our one big customer. He would go in one day and me the next. He wanted the Saturday run so he could be off Sunday and Monday. I was off Saturday and Sunday. On our days when we didn't go into Mr. Big Customer we would do various other runs in the area or an occasional deep Texas run down around Brownsville (occasional over nighter). Well the other driver had a safety violation and gets banned from Mr. Big Customer. Now I'm stuck with the duties of Mr. Big Customer and on-call 6 days a week. The guy that got banned is stilled employed as they were hoping to get him re-instated. That went on for nearly 5 months and they finally re-applied to get him back in. Mr. Big Company said: "no way, not ever. He's banned for life from all of our facilities". Pretty much ended his hopes. However my company has not yet fired the guy and is just now hinting at looking to hire someone else. It's been over 5 months now and I'm still stuck working on-call every Saturday which means even if I don't have to work that Saturday I still have to be ready, willing and able to work. Meanwhile the other guy is doing about 35 hours/week and has every weekend off. I have to ask to have a Saturday off. I have asked and received about three Saturdays off since this whole thing started. Otherwise I pretty much have to work the remaining Saturdays. My dispatcher has now stated that nobody in the company is guaranteed days off. True to a certain point but nobody works 7 days a week. Even on the oilfield we worked a 5/2-5/3 schedule.

Now don't get me wrong. I AM NOT BEING OVERWORKED. I do about 55 hours a week compared to his 35. Here's my beef. It seems as though I'm being punished for his wrong doings. I mean if there's two trucks and one is not capable of doing ALL of his required duties they should hire someone capable of fulfilling those assigned duties. My dispatcher's opinion differs though. He says he could give the other guy 30 days off in a row if he wants. As long as I have the hours, he expects me to run what he tells me to run. I see his point to a certain extent but since we're both salary it's seems a gross injustice to an innocent party..i.e. ME! to have to carry the guy who was banned for a safety violation.

Anyway, I'm about at my wit's end here. I'm just wondering when enough is enough.

 

The company, on the crude side, was very good to me. The gasses division.....I'm still trying to figure it out

It's coming to the point that it's not worth it. I can make similar and not have the disparity in work load.

I can only assume he's making more since he's been there for nearly five years. We all pretty much start out at the same point.

That's another thing. There are plenty of hazmat/tankers jobs in the Houston area. Problem is I'm from Dallas and since going over-seas in 2010; going OTR in 2011 to 2014; living in Midland and now houston for nearly two years it's been nearly six years since I lived in what I consider my home near Dallas. Maybe I'm homesick as well.