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

The downside to that is if I get a Hanahan load that I can deliver to the only Saturday customer I have been to, then I sit until Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. So sales comes in on Monday (west coast time) by the time they find something, it's a Tuesday or Wednesday pickup...which means I most likely won't deliver by the following Saturday, so 0 miles for the week after a good week. This weekly pay crap will probably put an end to my hard pushing and 700 mile days. This whole change has demoralized my whole outlook to working here.

 

If I deliver in Hanahan on a Saturday, it is still normally Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning before I am sent a load which would mean that the only miles I would get paid for on that week would be the deadhead miles to my pickup. I wouldn't even get paid any layover pay until I delivered whatever I picked up the following week, so I would get a big fat $0 paycheck. Then by the time I get that load delivered there wouldn't be sufficient time to get another load picked up and delivered before the end of the payroll deadline so I wouldn't make up any extra pay for the 1st weeks $0. This whole weekly pay b.s. doesn't hurt you because you're on salary pay, so all it does is cut your paycheck pie into smaller slices as long as you turn in paperwork for 9900 miles by the end of the month. They won't let anyone who isn't already on that package switch over. And according to my dispatcher, I am not the only driver who is pissed off enough to consider moving on because of this new weekly pay ########. How many of them that actually leave is another thing, but a lot of the per mile guys are going thru the same crap as I am. The only remedy for it is changing the system to something like COTC uses where it pays you based on your physical location at the end of the pay period rather than paying after delivery. But then they would be insisting we follow their assigned routing and fuel stops.

 

I also just noticed on this weeks pay, they are still taking out the bi-monthly amount for additional withholding(every week) instead of the new weekly amount on the new W4 I sent in last month. Plus, they switched my tax bracket to 'head of household' instead of "married filing jointly". I have never selected anything but the married on my W4 since my very 1st job after I got married 39 yrs ago...my god, what else are they gonna #### up on my pay. They #### well better not #### up my W2 when they process it, I am counting on that tax refund to cover the cost of moving to a competent company that can get their #### together. These Canadians are retarded morons. I think we would be better off if Daseke would have sold out to Swift rather than the Canadian idiots.

 

I already sent an email. I don't trust just talking to them, as often as they screw things up, I need a digital paper trail that can be verified.

 

That schedule would work for flatbed since most flatbed customers aren't open on the weekend.

 

With the long deadhead from Pueblo to Wichita, I will have around 1900. This load is 1367 and delivers Tuesday, and unless Rancho finds a short run, that's probably it for next week. My 1st 2 paychecks the start of the year were 1200 mile and the carryover from Christmas week that was just under 700 miles. So far, my total GROSS for the 1st 3 checks of 2025 is right around $3k