Broker bad scheduling?

So i've never started a topic in this particular category, seeing as how I drive someone else's truck and I don't call brokers, but have to ask about this.

The carrier has these automotive runs, the one in particular I've been on from their terminal by Detroit going to south Texas and back. They change the route every now and then, with varying pick-ups, and recently they've changed it yet again - and this time I don't think it will be possible.

Pickup in Brownsville, then Los Indios, then McAllen (2 different docks), then Laredo. And then expect to get back Saturday night. I don't think this is going to happen.

So who is at fault for this inept load scheduling? The broker? or the carrier? I'm pretty sure they get the loads through Ryder brokerage. It's GM freight.

It's looking like I won't get back until Sunday, seeing as how I need to make it 5 hours out of Laredo in order to get back to MI in 2 more shifts after that. Which means I 1) won't have any days off at all, and 2) no 34 hr restart, 3) will probably not be able to do 2 weeks back to back without running out of 70-rule hours.

Time to look for another gig? There seem to be plenty around my area, going to Laredo and back.

 

lol well I'm about to tell them it's not going to work. Thanks for the reply.

 

Yeah GM seems pretty ornery when it comes to their time sensitive freight.

But I just don't see how this schedule they recently came out with is going to work. So far, it hasn't, and now at my 3rd pickup out of 5, and I'm already 2hr 20min behind schedule, and I haven't even stopped to grab something to eat yet.

Here is the schedule and let's see if one of yous do the math and what you come up with.


9:30am Brownsville (slept at customer, took 1.5hours to load)
11:00am Los Indios (22miles, 45min drive, got here at 11:30am, took 1.5 hours to load)
1:00pm McAllen 1 (45miles, 70minute drive, still here loading, got here at 2:20pm)
2:00pm McAllen 2 (.5 miles down the road)
6:00pm Laredo (175 miles, 3hr 45min drive. ETA 8:30pm)

I don't think they realize that you can't get in and out of every place in half an hour, and I don't think that they realize that you can't go 22 miles in 22 minutes when half of the route is 40mph and stop lights, and the other half goes from 45-60 with a couple of stop lights.

I bet some new schlup in the office is feeling good about himself, from making the route more productive. Little does he know...