Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

No harm in trying I guess. The reason why I am sceptical is that I was 29hrs early for the drop time. The live unload only really comes into play because the consignee said they would try to work me in. Its been 13hrs since they told me that though. I would not have entered the gates if I thought it would be so long.

 

I just put in for detention whenever I pick up a load off the yard that needs to be reworked. I've done that a few times for Gatorade loads in reefers I've picked up off the Wytheville yard.

My rationale is that if it *had* been a live load, I would have gotten it re-worked then and there, and the whole thing would've taken more than two hours and I would've earned detention anyways. Plus, if it's supposed to be a hook-and-roll, the clock starts ticking immediately as far as I'm concerned, not two hours later. Spending two hours in a dock for a re-work is cutting into the time I have available for my next load, which costs me money.

 

You have made my point, the driver is not going to waste his/her time if they aren't getting paid, they company doesn't care because it's not costing them anything.

 

Whoever loaded that should be canned

 

What I was saying is that ensuring loads are legal is part of the job that we are paid for. Some drivers choose not to fully do their job because they feel they should receive additional pay for certain job functions.

Washing the truck is not part of my job therefore I cannot expect to get paid for doing so if I wash the truck myself. Ensuring my load is legal is part of my job and is therefore a function I am paid for when I accepted the rate of pay to work here.

 

And whoever picked it up and dropped it on the yard should be fined or canned.

 

So is it the guy that does the p/u without pay job, or the driver that gets assigned to the load and gets paid for the load job? You can certainly understand that wasting 2-3 hrs for free is not very palatable so that somebody else can hook and go. There is no "right" answer, just my opinion.

 

The driver may have been out of hours. If I pick up something and drop it in the yard my day is usually done.
The driver could have told someone and it never got past on. It could explain some of the instances. To be honest if I pick up near the yard and am dropping in the yard I'm not going to scale it. I will only scale if I'm crossing a scale.

 

If you are the 1 loading it and know its being passed onto another driver its a bs move to not scale it before dropping it for him.