Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

It wouldn't have surprised me if they did have me pick up somewhere. The box planners always try sneaking some crap onto my workflow. Luckily dispatch deletes it immediately. They must have known that I have an extra 3 feet of floor space in the trailer. I never got a 2nd fuel solution and I wasn't about to go making phone calls. I picked my own fuel stop but it's one that I fuel at every Friday or Saturday on the way home so hopefully Schneider's not too hurt by it. It takes me 10 hours flat of drive time to get from the office to home every weekend. Add 80 miles to my trip to save a few cents off of a fill up? Yea that makes sense. Sorry not happening.

 

I prefer complaining about dirty drivers. At least a unswept trailer doesn't burn the hairs in my nostrils.

 

My dispatcher told me that if you have more than one fuel solution on your trip, you only have to do one and you won't get dinged for skipping the other. Then you'll just get a new one when you receive a new preassignment anyway. There's been times that I had 2 fuel stops within 300 miles of eachother. I left this morning before I ever got my assignment so that's why I didn't have a pre-determined fuel stop. The quarter is almost over and I have enough bonus points that it won't effect me.

 

The program tracking fuel compliance was made by a guy who was fired from the Government Accountability Office for being inaccurate.

I've tracked my compliance and the program does not tracking accurately. DEF is not supposed to count but it does. If told to use an OC it's supposed to count; sometimes does sometimes doesn't.

Overall it's not a significant amount off (ie it isn't impacting my bonus enough to pay for the time it would take to email my dbl) so I don't worry about it too much.

 

It also confuses full with mt.

And get obsessed with certain TS.

 

Yeah, hopefully it doesn't count against you. I vaguely remember getting a message months ago about the fuel solutions, and recall two things (1) you can fuel at a certain place for x amount of time after receiving the solution and it counts as compliant, and (2) you can request 3(?) fuel solutions per trip.

Of course, if you asked 5 people within the company to confirm this, you'd get 5 different answers

 

To our new drivers: if maintenance tells you "that's fine to drive" and you disagree DON'T MOVE THE VEHICLE!

Just had express bay tell me 2.5 of 4 pins sticking thru the frame is legal. It's not. It's quasi legal to move empty to service but not to 'advance the load'. Went over to the service advisor who went and raised heck with express bay.

You're going to be the one responsible. If you don't feel comfortable to pass a DOT inspection don't take the trailer. I don't care if the load is perishable baby hearts, don't move the ####ing truck.