I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

Have just learned Risinger Brothers recently went in and added a preventable to my DAC. The dirt clod that put the 2 inch crack in the air dam. The one they charged me $1000 for that cost $250 to repair. The justification for stealing my $1200 paycheck along with putting the lie to their promise to pay me $200 for returning their equipment to the yard and charging me for an extra couple weeks on the lease. Those guys. The ones who toot their own horn about how Christian they are and how good they are to their drivers. Unless you have the gall to leave the plantation.

 

Okay--there were some discrepancies in my pay, but when I got to Payroll they were EXTREMELY helpful, not only fixing the mistakes but working with me to find out what went wrong and correcting the problem (status was never terminated when I left last year and it left a debt open that had been paid).

Next week's pay will be up almost $200. They offered me a Comcheck but I'll just wait til next payday since I'm going in the shop and will need the boost.

There was what I thought was a problem with my score card metrics, but when I spoke with the ops manager I learned that the reason it goes back two weeks is because it starts tracking at the start of orientation. I'm actually on track with the qualification but being in the shop this weekend will hurt availability and knock my score out of whack (not my fault, sucks diseased camel wang, but fact of life).

I was pretty upset at first but now the grown-up is beginning to reassert himself. It's a slow freight season so things are excruciating right now. Also I was already jacked about my DAC showing a new preventable. I don't much like that the Wage Lock program is another pie in the sky recruitment tool. If it worked as advertised the system would help out in times like this; instead it seems the company is stacking the deck against the drivers ever benefiting from it (big company, so what else is new). It just means business as usual, no new paradigm, get the job done and I'll get paid.

Like I've always said--big company doesn't care about you enough to hurt you or help you. You have to learn to make your way within the system and you'll do fine. I've been gone a year, so I have to learn the system all over again since it's changed in my absence.

 

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Well, I can either gripe about it or learn how things are now and adapt. A cursory inspection of my thread will reveal that there were many who felt I was moving around too much over the last couple of years, and they're right. I'm here now and I'm gonna be here. It's a rough time all over, so we're gonna tough it out.

Anyway, after the #### Risinger pulled, it'd be hard for me to move anyhow. At least for a while.

 

The Hot Chick has enrolled at Ivy Tech for a business administration program. Next she'll be wanting to wear shoes. And vote.

Am sitting at the college campus while she waits to see an advisor. She's supposed to start in the fall. She'll be doing an on line curriculum, so we just got her a new lap top and reactivated our AT&T Wi-Fi mobile hot spot in anticipation of her needs. She'll be doing a lot of research, reading assignments, essays, some Skype conferencing, all of it on line.

I'm gonna be driving a truck.

 

Things aren't that bad here; I was mostly peeved to find out what Risinger has done to me. Now if I want to go to a smaller company I have 3 accidents showing in last 12 months.

At least Celadon doesn't pretend to care about you.

 

Right now freight is very slow in all of Celadon's divisions. This is where Wage Lock is supposed to step in. Thing is, the company looks for ways to weasel out of paying it, so it's actually business as usual. It's not really a bad thing, just business as usual in the trucking game. You're right about it being dirty pool to get butts in the seats, but it's a fact of life.