I don't mind working the holidays. Its when i'm sitting 1000 miles from home with no or very low miles.. I'm neither at home nor making money....
So its memorial day weekend. Everyone else goes home and: Spent yesterday sitting, 150 miles for today, 150 miles for Monday. Are there...
Holy cow. I'm trapped here for 2 days. Driver facilities have all been stripped out. No showers, no toilets. Drivers dropping deuces between...
Thats just it, they wouldn't scream and yell. They probably wouldn't say anything. I would just quietly lose my fuel bonus and would have no...
In the case I describe I didn't have the load yet, I was pre-cooling; it was working on the drive to the shipper, but started failing as I was...
I would have missed my assigned fuel stop. I could have just taken the other route without too much blowback, but I would have certainly lost my...
I work for a mega, and one of my pet peaves is how long it takes to get someone on the phone. About 50% of the time I have to call in, I end up...
I had an incident last winter due to lack of sleep. I got dispatched on a load that was already late(planners fault, not mine), got to the...
How does one deal with this when it comes to detention/layover? In my company, and I suspect most others. I have to arrive on-time in order to...
I've been with Knight 1.5 years, no experience prior to that. I have no idea how widespread this practice is in the industry due to my lack of...
Except it was the trailer tandems overloaded, 1000 over at the California max position, with a load going to CA. Some have suggested my fine...
This weekend sucked. Picked up a load of produce from a farm saturday. Nearest cat scale was 100 miles on route, there was a closer one 50 miles...
I've been with my company for over a year and have been on per diem since day one, and I have never indicated that I wanted to switch. This week...
Rudy's Country store, about a mile walk from TA Albequerque. Worth the walk.
I think they will reschedule, which unfortunately means 24 hours later, and a day wasted sitting away from home. This is the real reason I'm...
Got assigned a load tomorrow, that I can;t figure out how to do this legally, not many people in the office over the weekend to talk to. Going to...
Uphill?? So its worse after Knight? That can't be right.
Knight is my first company and first experience in the trucking industy, so I don't know what its like elsewhere. So my truck was scheduled for...
Last Spring I hit a mother duck with about 6 ducklings on i-15 in salt lake city. I saw em, but couldnt move out of the way due to traffic. I...
Thank you. My cld is in AZ. I will look into the companies you suggested
