TransAm

It's pretty simple. For different times of the year they give you an idle percentage that they ask you to stay below. Right now it's summer so they asked us to keep our idling under 45%. Every two weeks or so they have our fleet go into the qualcomm settings and find the idle percentage number. Then we send a free form message saying what that number says. If it's higher than 45 percent we just say in the message "I've been idling over the idle percentage because it's been too hot" or something to that effect. If you don't do this you might get charged for idling. The reasoning they give is because they get a huge tax write off for some of their fuel expenses at the end of the year if they can show that the idling was requested by the driver.

I thought it was complicated at first but I understand after having been here for a while.

 

Personally I would, considering I have less than a year myself. BUT DON'T THINK I'M TRYING TO SELL YOU THE WORLD LIKE THESE RECRUITERS. Not yelling, I just want to be clear. There are several things that I think they ought to change, but I can work around them so it's whatever for me. Not a big enough deal for me to quit or say they're absolutely the worst. But yeah just to be clear, they have their kinks that they need to work out just like everyone else.

 

Thanks and you take care as well.

 

The list of terminals also includes a yolo, CA yard, a lathrop, CA yard, a South Gate, CA yard, a fontana, CA yard, a white city, or yard, an auburn, Washington yard, and an Irving, Texas yard. A couple of those are drop yards but I don't know which ones. The rest are actual terminals from what I have been told.