Quick question on who is screwing me or not

All the good company theorys is who cares, you have to cover your ###, who cares why your not moving, your not making money without miles. I would move on if I thought this was true.

Just like they have to lookout for the company first, you have to lookout for you first.

 

Yes. I routinely see and sometimes book loads that go 200 or so miles taking 2 days to deliver. There is nothing abnormal about it. They are not out to get you. See a lot of that in the reefer world.

For example the load will be scheduled to pickup at say 6pm today at a cold storage and delivers to a Wal Mart DC tomorrow afternoon at 5pm. A load like that I did for TQL twice that went 250 miles. It paid accordingly or I wouldn't book it. That's how you handle it on the owner operator side. You reject it if the rate isn't right.

On the company driver side you suck it up, quit whining like a little girl, and do what you're told to do. Loads with weird scheduling like this are not uncommon at all in dry van or reefer. You will see a lot more of it from brokers because they are the garbage loads direct carriers don't want because of whiney baby drivers. For an o/o it is opportunity or a time to be taken advantage up, that's up to the individual.

When freight is slow a big company with lots of trucks will put loads like this on their guys because a bad load is better than no load at all. Would you rather do nothing?

What does the personal life of your dispatcher the drama queen have to do with anything? Any dispatcher I ever had I was all business with them. I didn't know or care about their life outside of work or any of the office politics. That's one of the great things about driving a truck - you don't have to listen to any of that nonsense ever if you choose not to.

 

This is the mantra of guys perpetually stuck at the bottom of the payscale because they have a work history that'll print off on 50 pages. Trucking is what it is. The grass isn't really greener on the other side. Freight has ups and downs. Now a mismanaged company is a mismanaged company but a LOT of that falls on the nut in the mirror who didn't do their homework before signing on.

This kid is at the top of the payscale at his company. Throw that away for what? They were good enough for that long now they are bad? Another company gig with the exact same issues, problems, and conspiracy theories as what he has now? Not very smart imo. If you're going to make a move in this industry make sure you make a step up. Because most guys when they change jobs are just stepping sideways into the same ol pile of dog ####.

If he had a teamster job lined up i'd say go for it. Or if he had his #### together and seemed business minded get his own truck and do that. But most guys never move up in the industry. Just part of a revloving door. In that case you are just as well to stay put. I know company drivers that would think $1,000 a week was kick ###. There's a LOT of them out here makin half that. Sad, but true.

 

Is it unusual? Not at all -- this is part of the reason Knight has 2.5 times as many trailers as tractors:

 

I think it is time to step up to the big leagues and sign a lease truck deal. The companies make so much money off lease ops you will be drowing in the miles you want.

 

I occasionally get a 800-1200 mi run ... that is scheduled out to deliver in 6-7 days!

Having a dispatcher, and places (yards/terminals) to drop it, and either go back and deliver it, or get another driver to deliver it ... helps ...rarely do I have to drag my feet or sit more than 1.5 days ... if my company sees I have a reset, and plenty of hours they will find me something to do, even if it is booking a CH Robinson load!

If you own your own rig, you don't usually have the option to just drop it somewhere ... but then again, you probably wouldn't choose that load in the first place, unless you got to swing by your house!

 

Conspiracy theory 101 ...

 

It is winter now. Freight is Slow during winter. could that e part of the problem O P?