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

Yep next week will be doing it for many drivers, unfortunately I will be back at it right after Christmas this year…

 

i’ll be home on the 23rd but going back out on the 28th

 

Haven’t decided 100% maybe the 21or 23 home. Then back out the second. Haven’t decided would like to take the extra time off but bills gotta get paid donehow

 

i took my long time off over Thanksgiving and New Year’s isn’t important to me so

 

I didn’t. Plus it’s about to be slow time in reefer world. Debating about it. Would like to watch 2 steeler games the 21st and Christmas Day.

 

Yeah I tried your schedule this time @supersnackbar and have also been out since the 1st of October, I head home on the 24th and I’m back out the 27th, and will be for Jan…hopefully back to monthly hometime starting in Feb.

Sorry to hear you are leaving open deck, I’m still not tarpping which I don’t miss all that much, but I love the variety of freight and the overall customer base. Maybe if I could do solely drop and hooks, I’d change, but no way do I want to deal with the stupid appointments ever again.

 

SSB, I understand how you feel about the change only mine was the opposite. For 20 or so years, we were paid weekly. My wife had the bills set up to be paid on the 1st and 15th of every month. Then about 10 years ago, the company wanted to switch to biweekly pay. As part of our union contract, it was excepted by the majority of our driver's since the company agreed to give us another paid floating holiday in exchange for the biweekly pay. Maybe payroll had a difficult time with the weekly pay schedule? I worked Monday through Friday being home every afternoon with weekends off. I mean, how hard could it be for payroll? Morons?

What I don't understand in your situation is having a $0 paycheck or a minus paycheck when deductions are taken out if you take 2 weeks off? It seems to me that if you are going to take that much time off, you would use your vacation pay or sick pay to cover the time not working? Before I retired, I was receiving 5 weeks of paid vacation and 12 days of sick pay each year. I guess I'm going to plead ignorant because I don't understand.

 

I think it’s probably more of a budget issue than a weekly paycheck. For as long as he stays out and eating in the truck all the time he should have a better handle on the finances.