A New Fleet Manager

I can get behind a truck on the highway and tell if he is a professional or a wanna be.

 

LMAO! And pesto bismal

 

Guy I worked with had a gallon jar of Rolaids on his desk and ate em like candy all day long, along with his coffee and cigarettes.

 

Here's a thought... set a standard for ALL customers. Enough of this "we don't pay detention for them" b.s. Even if the customer doesn't pay it, you make WAY more than enough on that $3/mi load the driver gets 28¢ of to fork out $10/hr for however long it takes! If a driver is still stuck after 8 hours, send them to a hotel room or give them a decent layover pay. $50/day = $1500/mo. Nobody with a family can live on that. How about $200/day. It wouldn't take many of those to get the bean counters down the necks of these sorry shippers/receivers to get us out of there. I spent almost 3 hours waiting on an empty trailer at a drop and hook yesterday, and still bobtailed 50 miles to get one. That should have been detention from the first minute. We are contracted to drop and hook, with specific instructions to NOT enter the building. There should be empty trailers awaiting our arrival and if not, automatic detention from the arrival call until we do get one. When I left there was still an O/O who was there first waiting for a trailer and none in the doors getting unloaded.