might just depend where your at, you normally stick to the east dont you moose? I heard its a lot slower out west right now. I know its slowed down for the DC for us too but im still moving.
couple days ago,my dl said theres more freight in the east than the west. cool....but i have hometime in five days lol so need to stay close to so. calif.
Another little update, this morning I woke up to go talked to the DM's here to figure out my situation. When I got to the window they didn't know I was here for the class. Typical.. anyways I told the DM when do I tranfer to my new one and get into the truck. He told me to hold on and that they were blindsided by my arrival. Then he asks me if I talked to anybody down here and does my current DM know what I'm planning to do. So I said yeah, the terminal manager deadheaded me here from sumner. The look on the guys face "they deadheaded you 1500 miles for this class?!" 10 minutes later after they had to see if I qualified to tranfer in flatbed. I got the green light and start class tomorrow morning at 7. Minor inconvenience, I don't see where these people are complaing about this company. Everybody I've ever delt with have been good and helpful. Maybe because I'm just a very patient, and relaxed person.
some people are just haters. i've had issues too, but all companies will have the same. good luck with the class and your new adventure
I don't 'stick' to the east, but I do seem to end up there a lot. Tonight I'm at the Loves on I-76 just outside Denver. I have a 0700 live unload in the morning. I'm hoping to get something to Salt Lake City after this load. I'm out of tobacco and I need to get to I-80 x3 to get some more.
I haven't seen that either. I'm always running into my 70; 500 mile days are the norm with the occasional short day due to the load not being ready. (OK, so I'm usually early...) The people I see griping about no miles are the ones that routinely turn down the local T-call delivery runs, not realizing that those runs will likely get you closer to where the freight is. Make life easier for your DM. Take what they give you, and maintain a 100% on-time rating. Even when it's the "impossible" delivery deadline; the 8/2 split sleeper has saved my bacon more than once. And if it is truly impossible, send in a macro 22 even if it is obvious that you can't make it. (Like when the delivery window closes in 30 minutes, and the 90 is 100 miles away.)
That's because the majority of the freight is east of I-35 and north of I-40... A week or so ago, my DM told me that the Northeast was overbooked. More loads than available trucks.
Yeah, I've always turned down loads that I know I wouldn't make it on time. So far in the 9 months I've been here I'm 100% on time with 560 deliveries. Hope I can keep it up.
if you get preplans with times you cant make, mac 9 it with times you can. you be suprise when you get it resent with your times. swift doesnt put in the time windows normally
