Is there old school slang for waiting at the shipping window?

Soup line. By the time you spend all of your hours waiting around, soup is all you can afford.

 

ExpedishSHAWN!!!!

Keep calling that out in a French accent while pointing around all over.
Gets you the best service. Learned it from a frenchy lady driver

 

It’s always funny when truckers think detention pay just falls from the sky while you’re standing around waiting for a load.

 

We are going to make it the new standard vs just sitting around for free. Maybe the first 2 hour are free then time to get paid to sit. Since we are not on paper logs anymore. Can't even move more then 5MPH without showing something. So no reason to sit for free.

 

When I was a driver trainer, I always utilized that time to refresh the trainee's memory about the necessity of thoroughly and completely filling out the detention slip while standing over his shoulder as he started to write one out so the company could get paid for our wait....worked a number of times.

 

I know right. I guess doing flatbed I hardly ever wait more than an hour. I'm so removed from being detained( I meant detention). I almost went crazy the other day I had to wait.

 

That’s great, but what happens when the shipper/broker tells you to go pound sand? Of course you’ll leave, and go find another load. What if there isn’t another load? What if you’re in Seeley Lake, MT, and the only load within 250 miles is the one you’re waiting for? What if the rates are so low you’re barely getting by as it is thanks to Ivan Muhammad Johnson from everywhere else in America who’s fine running for $1.30/mile because he lives in his 2004 Volvo? You have to put up with #### in some circumstances. There a zero percent chance you’ll get all the trucking companies to band together to set a standard for detention pay let alone be able to enforce it upon the shippers. Sometimes you eat them, sometimes they eat you.

Running flatbed it’s fairly uncommon to be at a shipper more than two hours. After that I’ll start making phone calls to get more money for sitting. Works half the time.

 

Then we just have to wait for free. Like the old days. Detention pay is possible some today. Back on paper logs nobody would pay or under the old HOS.