watch your pilot/flying j fuel rewards and shower credits.

Why park and walk bobtail to the TS shower bobtail back.

 

Hey all!
I am sitting at training for Roehl at the moment and wondering do they favor one fuel stop over another? I know you have to fill at the terminals whenever you are there but are you routed round and round to save a few pennies on the fuel for the company or is it made safer or more convenient for the driver in using an easier to access fuel stop?
Thanks

 

Some companies assign you a specific fuel fillup to save money across the fleet where possible. And I recall some companies who did not give a *&^% about fueling. And you wonder why they are out of business now.

All this talk about assigned fueling makes me worried. It would appear that there is a systematic removal of all decision making by the trucker on the wheel of the company truck. It's decided for you, fill here. Or X gallons here.

 

Better to walk; otherwise you're setting yourself up for a sleep apnea analysis at the next physical. Keep the weight down.

 

You're right about saving money on fuel costs.
Large fleets get big discounts if they fuel at certain fuel stops. The price the drivers sees at the pump isn't what's billed to the trucking company. Large fleets get rebate checks in the mail each quarter I believe and annually the check may be in the 100's of thousands or million or so. The company driver doesn't see this part of the transaction.

 

That type of information is close hold. There is usually a secure room that contains a printer and a spreadsheet fed into that one printer. It's off limits to drivers and anyone who is not a company officer. On that is the amount of debt owed to the Company by employee, owner operator, lease etc by social, Amount of fuel purchased for the time period previous shift, Comchecks sent out the previous shift. And so on. Anything that is cash money coming into the company or going OUT from the company is on that printer. Accounting gets a hold of a copy and they slave over it day and night.

I once got inside such a secured room when running around with a night dispatcher while exploring the wonderful office and considering that 1400 tractors with humans inside of them with twice the trailers, a percentage of whom are loaded rides on one individual night dispatcher who is really nothing more than a watch man, a fire fighter, a crisis counsler, a problem solver, a late driver round up person and so forth. I scanned the materail coming out of the printer and got a education in a hurry. Before I was kicked out quickly.

Technically drivers do not get to know anything at that level about any company. There is no need for them to know anything. They are to do what they are told, three bags full aye aye and give no guff doing it.

 

@x1Heavy - as you already know; many drivers have an inflated sense of self value to the company. Drivers are nothing more than a tool or cog in the machinery to make money for the stockholders. That's just the cold hard facts of business. That's why I scratch my head in wonder when a driver wants to be known by his name vs. a number. What difference does it make in the big picture; no difference at all.

 

that goes for every industry and every career.

I laugh even in engineering when folks leave and than send email to us "well did the co fall to pieces upon my leaving"
ah no it didn't, it did the same thing as before you were here. carried on.

 

If you get 100 gallons shouldn’t you get 2 showers?