Refusing to bring home, answers?

Well, i will take the side of the driver.
I tell my company i have a scheduled event, say in 3-4 weeks and need to be home. It is the companies responsibility to see that i am home at the appointed date. I am not your slave. If you have to book a load that just barely covers costs, so be it.
If i am clear across country and you need the truck to keep running, get another driver on a plane and we will meet and swap out.
We all joke about how can someone not control their life because they are one lost paycheck from poverty, but they have made their choices. However, just because the company thinks they have a driver over a barrel is no reason to treat them like a slave.
And don't they think the driver will be looking for a "NEW JOB ONCE HE GETS HOME". Then they have the truck sitting until they can find a new driver to screw.

 

Distressed Freight: | Ally Logistics

Never mind. Found it.

 

X1 explained the situation but the load I mentioned was separate from the first load. I may not have made that clear - sorry.

A distressed load is a load needs to be delivered but can't be by the carrier. It could be that there was a problem with the truck or that there was an accident on route or a number of things. some are just sitting there on the dock without any one to pick them up, which doesn't seem to happen much.

A lot of carriers have back channels to other carriers for these types of loads and many brokers have access to the loads. Doesn't happen often but it happens enough.

Hope that answers your question.

 

Quit that job and get out of there. Its probably one of the big uglies , Werner , Kinight , England ,Swift etc. They dont care. They dont care at all. Join a better company like Transport America , Interstate , Dart etc. One way i have handled that is NOT asking for home time but telling the company i will be home on this date its up to you people to figure out how to handle this. I quit Werner and quit Werner and kept on quiting Werner and they would not let me leave. kept running further and further away. Finally went to one of there terminals and got a rental car , cleaned out the truck and went home.

 

So? If the company is hiring so far out of their lanes they should expect to pay for it. Or, you know, hire within one's service area.

 

We all know westbound sucks. We also know eastbound pays better. We also know that notice was given. Therefore, the plan should have been put in motion for decent paying freight.

So is it teh companies fault for slacking or the drivers fault. Because last i checked. Drivers don't care about rates. It's none of their business. All they care about, is getting home when requested. If the company can't find the freight when it's needed. That's not the drivers problem.

Trucks make money when the wheels turn. Not sitting. Find a load home. Don't park the truck and hope it doesn't get stolen while the driver flies home on the company dime.

Parking the truck is loss of income. Flying the driver home adds to the loss. Get him a load home. WHO CARES if the only rate available just covers the cost. Besides the company.

Who cares about $1.52 going home when he'll probably get over $2 when he leaves?

 

$2 isn't even a good rate.

I got $3.53/mile for ALL hub miles that my truck moved last week. 850 empty miles, 1050 loaded miles, and I slept in the truck only one night - because I needed the split sleeper to make a delivery appointment. That's why the company doesn't want to bring their truck west.

 

Oh yeah......they are going to pay you some serious. Your driver won't even miss a beat on his paycheck

 

Man I hate to point out the obvious here no point in complaining to the boss about the dispatch..

The dispatcher is probably sleeping with the boss just saying

 

Wow I just learned something new. I think my old boss specialized in (distressed) loads always waited until the last min of everyday to dispatch me. Than I showed up to get load and I was always told I was late, or asked where have I been. I'm guessing he made good money while paying me as little as possible. I am glad I learned some valuable information. Also learned more about the dark side.