Beginning a journey at Danny Herman Trucking

Appreciate it. Didn’t mean to come off as a crybaby, but figured I should include negative updates as well for a true review/experience with a company. The customer issues aren’t a big deal, but does suck being a CPM driver. I took lower CPM for good miles/lanes. If that’s a company’s pay structure, it better be a well-oiled machine (literally and figuratively lol)

And yeah, I try to pre trip and get things fixed within reason. I’ll turn a blind eye to some things like a slightly bent cross member on a trailer from a blowout or small air leak, but I won’t turn a blind eye to things that put my PSP and public safety at risk. The problem is that so many drivers don’t care, so it counter-intuitively makes the drivers reporting problems seem like they’re the ones breaking things.

 

Won’t be changing jobs soon for the sake of my work history and because I don’t feel like I’ve been truly ‘wronged’ yet, but I’ll definitely keep it in mind down the road. Plan is to stick it out here for a couple years until the market conditions and my confidence is ready to jump to O/O, but life happens, so we’ll see. Car hauling always seemed interesting, but figured my moving violation would screw the chances of that up. Evidently not since JC allows 3 in 3 years.

 

Well, apparently 4 of us got the fun of playing final mile drivers for these loads from CA to OH..

44,000lbs of steel coils in a dry van from Toledo to Grand Prairie, TX on recaps decent miles and better than not moving though. Only complaint is 30 minutes to spare for pickup and I’m now in line at the Pilot that’s 15 miles the wrong direction to get 50 gallons of fuel.. very smart fuel routing system. I reckon if you can pinch as many pennies as possible on fuel, actual driver efficiency isn’t a concern. At least dispatch will get a pat on the back for grabbing that good rate that no other company wanted for a reason.

Time to hope the broker is competent enough to know it’s getting loaded on a van and the shipper is competent enough to not load it like it’s a spread axle. Lesson learned to take New Year’s off if I’m here next year or else you get to be the clean up driver for everyone who stayed home.

 

3 hours from DFW, 30 minutes to spare on my 70, 6 hours of nothing but driving.... trailer tire blow out. Nothing like getting buzzed by every East TX Volvo on I-30.

Must’ve pissed off a native and gotten cursed for peeing on a South Dakota exit ramp a few months ago. I don’t know.