I just can't win.

Wow. All this to get on at Prime and they'll think nothing of sending you home from orientation for some ########.

Good luck.
Just know where their loyalty lies, they aren't worth it if you need to be home with your family after a tornado.

 

Lol, thanks Casanova - this is the long version of what I meant by 'God saying 'no''.

 

I posted that with good intentions. The point was simply that Prime, or any other business, will dispose of you as soon as you're no longer a good investment so leaving your family when you aren't ready would be stupid as the favor would never be returned. Thanks though.

You're remarkably good at typing like a 12 year old btw.

 

Aunty Em Aunty Em it's a twister!

 

Don't read too much into it man. It's the time of the year for twisters and there was nothing that you can do. Be glad you are safe.
As far as Enterprise goes, #### happens.

Move on and make sure if you are renting a car that there is no "one way" drop fee. Many rental places have it.

Just chock it up to being a "twist" of fate.......

 

You just experienced a small taste of normal on nights/weekends.

Get used to night/weekend frustrations if you end up driving here, might as well be a completely different company with the people that run those shifts.

Example from just yesterday:
Get preplanned by weekend dispatch on a 600 mi load picking up 17mi from our drop/hook delivery at an appt time 5hrs from our ETA I sent in.
Almost perfect, right? 5hrs to drop loaded, hook empty, get washout/fuel/minor fixes we might need on trailer, food, shower, ect; only downer is that its a short run.

Not an hour later we get the dreaded "preplan changing" message.
Now we are picking up & delivering at/to same places, but on a different load with pu appointment 19 1/2hrs after our ETA I sent in. These loads are generally not ready more than 2hrs early, nor later than appt time & have tight deadlines once loaded.

Asked to get put back on original load & was told would try - 8hrs later no response.

So someone decided to sit a team with hours all day waiting on a solo load, as well as adding insult by having us hitting delivery in Oakland,CA riiiiight at afternoon rush hour traffic on Monday instead of cruising in & out of same place on Sunday night.

The topper is that at our drop & hook, receiver had no empties available & product was floor loaded hundreds of boxes that takes hours to fingerprint unload.
Told night dispatch this & me knowing we have a dropyard not 5mi away, got ready to head there to snag an empty.

Night dispatch tells us to stay at reciever until they unload an empty...our trailer...which we had just dropped & per receiver, workers would not be in til Sunday afternoon to begin unloading.
Explanation fails to penetrate thick skull so give up & go to sleep - we have until tomorrow evening anyway for our ####ty solo reload anyway right?

Wake up 0900PST local team sitting time Sunday morning & our normal weekday fleet manager happened to be working that day.
Like actual freaking magic, without us saying a word, we had been taken off the unholy solo sitting disease & dispatched on a 714mi deadhead to a pickup going 2400 loaded miles at 0711CST local Prime time.

11 minutes after a competent FM walks in the door on a Sunday, rookie mistakes are immediately being remedied.

Best part:
he asked if receiver we were still parked at had any empties, replied no, asked if they would have ours unloaded soon, replied unlikely; "ok go to our dropyard around the corner & grab an empty. Thanks!"

Notable night/weekend exceptions: Doug, Sarah, Ty & most of all, King Nate.

 

Well it is Prime, save yourself before going and do some research.

 

We got another outbreak expected for roughly wed three days from now. I expect to be on here documenting the tornados as they happen during that time. Ive already had 5 tornados pass within a few miles this year in the last three outbreaks. Small ones to be sure, but still...