What do you do when you can's stay where you're at but have no hors left to move

Boy...I have so much to learn!! I haven't started school yet so it all seems so confusing right now. I will be team driving with my husband; does team driving make this sort of thing less likely?

 

You still run into it.

One team member has to stay in the bunk for the same amount of time a solo does.

 

I've worked with drivers that feel the need to report every detail about a dispatch or customer to the dispatcher and ask the company to make all of the decisions. This invariably puts that driver in more impossible situations than if the experienced drivers sizes up what's going on and then informs the company after it's done.

One trick is to keep my temper in check, come off as a slightly scatter brain driver about little details, and just so darn happy to be working here. If the dipatcher doesn's suspect a driver is a loose cannon trying to change the company to fit him that driver can have a lot more leeway in some situations. My first reaction is to wnat to tell the dispatcher and the company how things are going to be, because I'm on the scene and have the detailed information. Once I get over that I may forget to tell them something until later and do what had to be done. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than get permission." Use confusion and being away from the boss to your advantage, but don't do anything you can't reasonably explain at a later date.

I got out of a trip to upstate NY in the dead of winter because my truck had some outstanding repair. I "misunderstood" the company was going to dispatch another truck on the load and went home and called them bright and early Mon am just looking for my first load of the week. In my mind I was telling that company what they could do with their broken down hulk and NY's frozen "tundra". If I had blurted out any of what I was thinking the company would have seen my misunderstanding in a far more serious light. I would have lost my job for sure.

 

Its much easier to just run loose leaf logs and avoid
such drama.
The less dispatch knows the better my life is personally.
Doing logs is just like driving,you always need to have a "way out",getting boxed in is the drivers fault.

Always leave yourself and out!

 

I like to become scatterbrained with my boss too. Especially when I am going from Atlanta to Jacksonville. He says I thought I told you on the note to take I-16 instead of 75. My response: Oh I am sorry traffic was bad, and I was paying attention to your gps...It told me to take 75...I forgot. (The way he wants me to go is 45 minutes and miles longer.) I run loose leaf also, in case I need to fix something. Not to cheat, sometimes I might accidently flag the wrong city or accidently go to line 3, when I meant to be on line 4.

 

just wait till Rep. Oberstar and his cronies mandate EOBRs in every truck!!!
what are shippers and r'cvrs going to do? if the little black box says we are out of hours and therefore "to tired to drive"(cuz u know that computers are way more efficient and know better than any human how tired we really are!)
this industry is so screwd up! frankly I'm getting sick of it!

 

The main thing to remember is it takes at least 8 hrs in the sleeper to stop the 14 hr clock. Your getting it.