Did anybody get inspected for ELD yet?

The point is the same as the rest of shippers that refused to get their #### together and have all said.
Screw it we're not changing anything.

 

No. No the plant isn't shutting down. You, the carrier is going to pay the penalty. And you'll get a team to run the next load, a smarter driver, or they'll find another carrier who'll get it done. It really just that simple.

 

I have had no issues with the shippers, my issue is with the brokerage. I know when my customers ship, it has not trickled down to the front office and or the folks at GM that set the appointments.

 

I had a guy tell me he hated that, and that he had to piss in his truck because he couldn't leave for 8 hours straight. (Wasn't a rookie either) I was incredulous and asked him, "is the trooper IN your truck? Then how does he know when you're out taking a dump?!?"

I swear, the way he looked at me and in however many years he'd been doing this, this had never occurred to him!

I said, "we're truckers, not convicts! It's not a prison."

 

Not necessarily. They will argue they're already paying "premium service rates"

 

Most guys out here were jerked up, dumber than a post. And you can thank a tax payer funded teacher and a single mother that laid it down... Other than that, No comment.

 

Nope, you penalize us? We'll just move onto a less troublesome vendor/client. It makes no sense to brag that you're making $200 more per load if every load you're taking a $1,000 haircut, (Or risking it) because they can't get THEIR act together.

So far (and I've always been very conservative about my time compensation) I'm not doing REAL pre-trips anymore, because it takes 20-40 minutes in the morning just getting the tablet & ELD to sync without a crash, reboot, etc.

I could write up two whole days on paper and pre-fill a 3rd in the space of a cup of coffee. Now it's open, login, enter, crash, reboot, open, freeze, reboot, login, etc. etc. etc.

 

#bagcrapping, lmao.