Trip Planning / Time Management..

I live in the country where it is dark, I can see the neighbors lights for miles, some folks are scared of the dark. They may have good reason because they saw the bears and big cats out there.

 

You will have to reschedule for 10/11 unless there is a large delivery window. If the company says you can't drive at night, it's going to be tough to consistently make money. Nonetheless, you already know you can't make it on time. Send a Qualcomm message, call dispatch, communicate this somehow so it don't count against him.

 

i'd be in on THAT job...!!!!!!

bears, schmears.....big cats....pfftt.....

we are hiring a new class of drivers, ones that are nothing more than steering wheel holders, and day time ones at that.

maybe the days of automated trucking and robots should happen SOONER rather than LATER. and get rid of these pansies.

 

So what you're saying is that if you are at home and dispatch tells you to come to work 12 hours early, you would do it if you were inside the hours of service?

Or if you had parked at the truckstop at noon, waiting for your pickup at 0800 the next morning and dispatch calls at 2200 saying we need to to roll on a different load right now, you'd release the breaks and go regardless of how much sleep you had?

If a driver knows that he cannot get good rest during the day, why would he set himself up to run nights? Especially on no notice? I get real tired and cranky between 0300 and 0400. Doesn't matter what happened before it, but that hour is brutal for me. Thus I plan and communicate with dispatch so that I don't, as a rule, get loads that NEED to run during that time. If drivers don't stand up for themselves, who will ?

 

when my time was done, as far as resting, sleeping, gaining hours or WHATEVER, i hit the bricks... i was NEVER LATE, and ALWAYS early. that what a driver does..

todays "truckers" are no more than pansies. not driving in SEVERE weather (to me) is an exception, over NOT driving in the dark

 

Back in my time if you wanted to stay employed when they said jump you did that not asking anything. Of course we have many new regulations now because of that, but most of us did it with no problems.

 

yes, but even with new regs, when the 10 is up, or the 34, you drive.

trucking is 24 hrs, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (366 on leap year)..

there just isn't any rhyme nor reason not to want to drive when it's dark.

(severe weather) yes.

one has to adjust to the job, and sleep when one should be eating or eating when one should be driving, or driving when one should be sleeping..it's a 24 hour clock.

otherwise, seriously, get a dedicated job, or a regular daytime job, both with standard hours of operational times.

many of us started out as long haul drivers, these newbies seem to be way to much coddled by their routines, before they became wanna be truckers.

 

That was the big thing, you got in the drivers seat and went. No arguing, debating, asking stupid questions etc. It was something else in those days.

At least with McKesson it was much more orderly and supportive of long term trucking.

 

I had to run the hills of the west, you went when you could, stopping would be insane because then you would be in the storm, no messing around, trip planning was how to get by the weigh stations for us.

 

Again - will you leave hometime early?

Do you or do you not try and arrange your drive time based on what is best for you provided it still meets the customer needs?