Swift Flatbed Division... ?!

I should have gotten your driver code man. My dude sucked and I have only secured loads with a group of like 12. I had a guy I was going to team with, he went with a flatbed mentor supposed to be 50 hours and somehow ended up off the truck in Houston no longer working for Swift lol.

Anyway consignee didn't answer. Guess they were closed. I'm 9 miles away and parked with 3:20 left on my 70. Figure I will try to deliver early tomorrow if they will let me and ask for a load I can pick up on Thursday and get at least 6-7 hours run off of that. Then I'll be getting 10 to 11 hours back every day. Don't want to start and end the week having #### near the same number of miles lol

 

I will say, I am getting flatbed pay still for driving these vans. And 15 bucks extra stop pay off that Sams Club load. Wish I was getting securement pay. I can throw a tarp over lumber and also bungees on a hell of a lot faster than the guy at Sams can live unload a floor stack van.. And get paid for it.

 

OK, so my check is now posted for me to see and here are the results...

I grossed 1131.56 this week, for 2769 miles. I'm already considered platinum, so I received a 70.30 performance bonus and 15 dollars for an extra stop. Also I'm on accelerated pay, so because I scanned my bills for that 1420 mile trip by Wednesday at midnight, it's on this check(as it should be).

And it was a slow week, no securement pay or tarp pay. The most difficult thing that I had to endure was reaching go scan radio stations in the middle of nowhere.

As long as this is an average week, I've gotta say, I'm pretty happy with it. Where I was two months ago and where I am now couldn't be further apart. Now to just learn to actually manage my #### clock, so I get an extra trip or two in each week lol

 

I can't justify being out here sitting. If I call my DM who acts like there are no loads, or the Qualcomm gets me nowhere, I call the planners myself and ask them what they have on their load board heading in a certain direction or to a certain state. That seems to work. My shortest trip was 500 something miles. I'm on my second shortest load at 724 now. The rest have been 1400 or so. Like I said, could have done more but I don't take any unnecessary risks with ice and snow in the mountains and I take my time. There have been a few times I have let my clock run when I shouldn't have, or stayed on line 3 while I walked around the aisles of a truck stop for a while. Oops. Stayed on duty while I waited 30 minutes for a shower once too. So many places I could improve, for sure. I wouldn't be in time trouble, sitting around waiting for midnight right now if it wasn't for screwing up my clock. I'm learning though lol.