JCT

All I have to say if you can't drive 700 miles a day you shouldn't be a lease driver or owner op. You should stay with a company driver.

 

Driving 600 or 700 miles a day is not the issue. Staying up all day getting loaded, then driving all night to make delivery is. Like I said before, I am here to work. I will not jeapordize my freedom, & my family's existence, trying to deliver a load that was dispatched with not enough time on it. I have 2 friends who were involved in fatality accidents, through no fault of theirs. Anybody know what that is like? Their logs & paperwork were in order, or they would be sitting in a jail cell.

 

This isn't so much a JCT problem as it is an industry problem. There is NO reason on earth it should take an entire day to load a trailer. Until shippers and receivers get on the ball and start loading and unloading truckers in a timely manner, and as long as we are stuck in this fantasy land the DOT calls HOS, we are going to get screwed.

 

red wolf i agree with ya

im jus talking off the top of my head here but since no one gonna budge on the hos ... i wouldnt mind them put some rules on the shippers n recivers if you there on time anything more than 1hour of your appointment time is to much

 

a 1000 mile a day load??? what da hell! Yea they wanna see if your gonna run illegal for the company, and if not your gone,or back to 60 miles per day.dont do it call DOT and file a law suite and get all that lease money back from them and more driver.If its one thing I cant stand is for people to get on here and bragg about how good thier co. is, and than find out they are corrupt they have to break the law, and they feel so good about it.and the co. is the one doing it to these drivers.my my my

 

Now you can run 910 miles in one day 715 miles in a 11 hr shift and take a 10 hr break then run 195 all in one day if that's what your talking about honestly if you can't run this type of load every once in a while then maybe JCT or being a owner op is not for you. It's not a slam on you or anyone else it's just whats needed sometimes. I don't know your background but many company drivers getting into a program like JCT is tough when they come from 350 to 500 mile a day dispatches. I know you may get dispatched on a 1000 mile load that has to go straight there again this is where proper communication between you and your DM is very important. The legal way to handle this is to say, I have enough hours to run this load 715 miles before I need a break if you need me to I can hand this off to another driver so it can make the remaining 285 by the appointment, how do you want me to handle this? Try that next time.

 

i tried that once and my f m told me he was iin t he trucking business and he didnt care about n e thing but getting that load there safely n if i need help i might need to talk to a vet driver about logs lol......if it was easy they wouldnt "doing what can be dont" ..........
vulcan hows the trip to oh going

 

When Alan says they push you to see how you handle it he is not saying illegal, but how you handle it. Read my post above. You can handle it like most drivers would by throwing a fit before stepping back weighing out the options and figuring out a game plan. A load leaving a shipper can realistically travel 1320 miles a day if properly repowered easily. Two drivers running 660 miles each, they explained this VERY CLEARLY in our orientation. JCT does this all the time repowering loads.