An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

They pay us $100 to tarp, and use to pay $15-$20 extra per stop(on top of the stop pay) to pull and retarp on multi-stop loads.

 

If they install ANY driver facing camera, I will invite them to do a colonoscopy on themselves with it (as in, they can shove it up their ###), and that goes for any company I work for, not just SPD

 

I stand corrected. I though they use to pay for retarping on multi-stop loads, but according to Travis they never have. Not sure why I thought they did...it's not like it's more work to untarp then retarp, multiple times...why on earth would they have to pay us extra for doing more work than when we originally tarped the #### load to begin with. Silly me...going back to pulling a reefer trailer is starting to be more appealing every day.

 

Ok, now this is totally ridiculous. Just got a fleet message that they are now doing drive thru inspections on inbound equipment. The ridiculous part is, according to the forum replay the other day, they only have 2 mechanics right now, and they are super busy doing truck decommissioning and new truck ready/prep... they're so busy that they push us to have services done on the road instead of our shop. So, now all of a sudden, they have enough time to stop what they're doing and do an inbound inspection? What if they find a problem, are they gonna have time to fix it, or will the equipment just be red tagged until they do have time. Don't get me wrong, with the adequate manpower, it's a great idea to do this, but when you can't get #### fixed as it is, why add to your understaffed workload.

 

Plus they don't have room for a drive thru bay, all the trailers brought in to have work done have to be backed in from the lot. So now what, we have to back in to have an inspection? Sounds to me like a Wylie protocol.

 

I don't get paid tarping on proaded loads, unless I tarp it. And if they didn't pay extra for multiple stops, then I would throw a royal fit. There isn't a company out there that doesn't pay for extra stops. The longer I stay here, the less I like their b.s. I mean, I have never worked for a company that takes workers comp out of my check, workers comp insurance is a business requirement. Only worked for few that makes me pay for my own physical. I don't like forced per diem. I am surprised they don't make us keep an escrow account like some companies do for accident deductibles. And most flatbed companies provide at least short term disability at no cost to the driver, with the option of adding long term at the drivers expense...not here, if I want any disability thru Daseke, it costs and arm and a leg. I can make this kind of money pulling a refrigerated trailer, why in the #### would I want to risk blowing out my back or my knees or getting a bungee to the face for no better pay.