All Carriers Steal from their Drivers

It is funny watching some of these guys fly up two feet off my 65 mph bumper because a car is in the left lane preventing them from passing. It's gotten to the point now I just flip em off as they come crawling by. This scenario always takes place at the bottom of a grade.

You have to be a real miserable to let something like that ruin your already dismal pathetic day.

 

The worst thing a company can do to a driver is require that he drives 11hrs a/day to make appointments.

That only runs you out of hrs at the end of the week.
Otr companies have come up with a formula that makes drivers drive like they're being paid by the hour.

Yes split/logging is the best; but if they push you on tight deliveries you can't split log or you'll be late for the appointment; in this case the driver should be paid by the hour not by the mile!!!

There should be two different dispatches that the driver can commit too; an hourly load or a mileage load!!!

It may be a company truck but the CDL/and safety points belong to the driver!!!!

 

I've gone 32 straight days without a 34 hour reset because of how my loads were setup. Still averaged 2400 miles a week. That was a dang good paycheck each week for the month I was out

Ethan

 

good thing you're not his boss. He's paid to get loads there on time. If he has the time to slow it down if he wants to he can. Unless he has a preplan with an appointment his next load is based on the hours he has available after he drops. Paid to be productive for a minimum of 11 hours??? He's paid by the mile. Anyone who runs their driving 11 hours consistently each day is just burning up their 70. I only chimed in here because your snarky comment was annoying and Ethan does his job and runs good.

 

you'd be fired too....

 

Their 70 is not all they burn up. Do enough days of that, and you burn yourself out, both mentally and physically.

 

So your boss is ok with you dinking around 1/2 hour or more each day collecting time for a paycheck basically doing nothing?

 

Yeah! So there!

 

Your not doing nothing. Your driving. We don't get paid by the hour.

Ill put it this way, my last load delivered this morning at 8am. It was an appointment. No overnight parking. I'm not gonna park on the side of the street across from them. We are assigned a load and a time frame of when to get it there. We get it there, and roehls happy. There is no boss over your shoulder. I barely talk to my dispatcher. He sends me a load. I do it. Done.

I've been sent on loads that were say, 1200 miles. Ill have three days to get it there with a 5pm appt. On the 3rd day. So ill usually do 500 miles on the first day, sleep in a little on the second then run another 500. On the last day ill start about 10am that way i can run and relax. I can take my time, and my dispatcher knows I do that. I get consistent loads. I usually have a pre plan before I'm empty. He wants me to get at least 500 miles in a day, but if I don't have to then don't worry about it.

What you fail to understand is we are given loads and we do them. Most of the time it won't matter if we get there early or not.

My current load delivers anytime tomorrow. So I'm no rush to get there early in the morning. I'm gonna take my time, sleep in, and when i drop off I know where I'm going to pick up my next run. They have an appt set and you can't be more than 15 minutes early.

I LOVE what I do, I love this job. If i have to run 5,000 miles a week just to make a decent paycheck then where's the fun in that? So far this trip out I've averaged 2300 miles/week. That's $736 gross pay plus reimbursements, extra pay like detention. I get by but I'm also living a good life and enjoying what I do. I take time to enjoy my work, not rush through it.

Ethan

 

I will say, our o/O's run different. If i was an o/o then I would do exactly how you are describing, but being a company driver i can relax.

If i was an o/o id run hard and try to get many miles because I know i have to pay for my truck and everything else. Plus I can save up quicker for a new truck or something of the like.

Ethan