May trucking

I have a Student going out with me. Ive got the pen,AL to Pueblo load Mon nite. They are routing me straight out to Brooks. Im gonna try to get in at night and hide in the back and then leave early in the morning while nobody is watching. Wish me luck! Ill catch up with you out there.

 

If your pulling refers at May, make sure you have jumper cables.

If you are driving the I-5 corridor, Yolo and Fontana yds will be your home away from home because they like to lay drivers over their. make sure you have a stocked cooler if you are sent to either of those yards to drop a load. Especially on the weekends.

Do not let your dispatcher go home without planning a evening or weekend run, or you will sit till they come back in most cases because night and weekend dispatch is there to put out fires, not keep you rolling.

The no bobtail rule was not in place or enforced when I was there. I did not have much if any layover because I required my dispatcher to prepln me one load ahead of the load I was on.

put in your Macros and run when they need you to run and not when your log book says you can run and sitting anywhere will be rare. Play by the rules and your butt will get sore from sitting because you will be on the B team.

Word on the street is that May has been doing some borrowing to prop up their outfit. May drivers should have a plan B and not stray to far from the shack if you know what I mean. Good luck.

 

Yep I know this alot of dead batts on the reefers

Well there is a three sisters truckstop and farmer boys up the road from there by the pete shop.

Yes but a struggling company will not open another terminal they finnaly opened one in Denver

 

only been working for them for 3 months - only time I sat was clearly my fault (misjudged travel time, had to reschedule delivery time). I take any load I can run legally. I don't play fast and loose with the rules.

So far, no problems. I get the miles I want, and the home time I want.

Maybe it helps that I'm dispatched out of Denver terminal.

 

Yes but a struggling company will not open another terminal they finnaly opened one in Denver.

Well when you drop newbie pay .02 a mile and roll 12 year old spring suspension trailers, and overcharge O/O on repairs and fuel and borrow money from GTI you can afford to open a terminal in Denver to roll loads of Dog Food.

A guy I know who signed on a Volvo bought a new clutch fan and had it shipped to brooks to be put on his truck. Brooks put a used one on the truck and tried to charge him more then the one he bought himself new including shipping cost.

update; they finally got me a load its fri. A.M. i was ready to go mon at 6,

Though I worked at May for only 6 mos and a few days. I have the experience to know their freight base is not good and they can only keep you rolling at the expense of someone else. I had no problems with the company but they were starving out veteran drivers to make room for newbies when I was their.

A guy I got trained their made it a year but he said the last 6 months he was getting less miles every month and was getting loads with 3 days on them that he could pu and del the same day. After sitting in a yard all weekend for 3 weekends in a row he went home.

When your pay goes up, your miles will go down. If you like tooling around running loads part time Mays a good outfit.

 

I admit to a bit of frustration with the repair issue. A Stopped in Peyette for the night and in the morning walked over to the shop to ask about an intermittent "Check Engine" light. After hooking the computer to the truck, they told me that the EGR valve was bad and to let breakdown know.

I did, and breakdown came back quickly with "go get it fixed", along with directions to the nearest Cummins shop.

That was Thursday.

Last thing I heard from the shop on thursday was "it's not the EGR valve - truck hasn't seen an alert on that for almost 3 days. But you DO have a fairly serious oil leak from the heads, the oil pan,and the front cover" (all of which I knew. It's not THAT serious- wet oil on the motor,yes, but no drips on the ground. Drivable)

Cummins asks breakdown if they want it fixed. Breakdown says "we have to check with higher up, we can't auth that kind of expenditure on our own". Since it was- by then - about 19:00, that meant "we'll ignore this until morning"

This morning, at 10:30 Cummins had heard nothing- so I called again. Breakdown professed no knowledge of the oil problem. Cummins re-faxed everything.

20:00, Cummins closed up shop for the weekend. Fortunately, I got them to move the truck out to the unsecured parking lot. I can go get food and stuff.

From what the service guys at Cummins are telling me, May is trying to get Cummins to help defray the costs of repair.

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From my point of view, since all the 379s are supposed to go away in the next few months, why not just toast this one now? Yes, I'd like to keep it (I get along well with it), but financially this seems stupid. Breakdown pay, reimburse for motel and taxi, and the truck isn't making them any money.

Further,if the repairs are so expensive that they are talking to Cummins about helping to defray the costs, it seems illogical to spend that kind of money on a truck they're going to dump in the next few months anyway.

In any event, here I sit. I'm glad Cummins has free wifi for customers... cuz I'm here until at least monday

(side note: May sent a driver out to repower my load. No biggie- but he should have asked me to take my lock off the trailer,and for me to give him the BOL. Stupid driver)

 

All of the 379's were suppose to be gone when I was there.
The driver that repowerd your load will find out soon enough that he forgot the bills and that your lock is on the trailer.

Even though I was new I had to repower a load out in rock springs wy from a cummins dealer when a guy had a problem with his 387 I asked my dispatcher were were the bills and needed the lock removed they told me stand by and they would call the driver luckly he was at a motel close by and walked over.

 

didn't know that was the case with the 379s. Interesting.

As for lock and paperwork - I wasn't even at a nearby motel. I was in the driver's lounge here at Cummins. I'd stick my head out the door every few hours to check on the trailer- and at one point it was gone.

immediately let dispatch know that driver had taken off with my lock and without paperwork. Obviously lock not my problem. They asked me to fax paperwork - I managed that today. 28 sheets, $3 for the first sheet, $1 for each sheet thereafter. And I picked up a replacement lock- we'll see if they reimburse me for it.

I wanna know how the darn fool is gonna get that original lock off. It's one of them disk-shaped things,and is a stone bear to cut off.