"Boxcar Billy" Bolt Goat rides the rail with JB Hunt again.

True. The Goat is awful feisty. I always watch my mouth as far as avoiding verbal battles but they denied me the $120 I would have been paid for mechanical delays because of this.
$120 is a lot of money to a lowly jbhunt lackey.

 

Believe me, those thoughts are floating through my mind as well.

 

Supposed to meet with my manager his helper and their boss and listen to this recording. Unless I was talking over the helper and missed it, the recording should reveal that he did not offer me a loaner for the day.

I'm angry either way. If helper were offering loaner and I missed it he could have repeated offer. If manager denied my breakdown pay he could have sent me a message instead of waiting for me to discover it and have to call to ask why.

It's not just that my first good manager quit and I got stuck with Heckle and Jeckle, there seems to have been a real shift in atmosphere in our office. It has become adversarial between drivers and managers. Coincidentally they no longer leave the doors unlocked they started requiring us to use our code to get into the office. Guess they are expecting to tick us off.

 

Can it possibly be that a dispatcher fibbed? Perish the thought. I ended up talking only to the managers manager about this loaner truck business and when I told him I was sure the recorded conversation would verify my version of events, he blushed and stammered and said he had never actually had to retrieve one. Then said he would look at it and let me know. Yeah...right. 20 minutes later I got the following on the OBC