changes In The Works For Schneider's company Drivers

They are also doing this in the Van Division now. Talk to many van drivers that are otr, and the most of them are avg 1800-2000/wk, lots of short runs, especially if out of Gary, Obetz and Carlisle. I have ran into van drivers from Houston in PA, and they tell me that when they get in that area, they normally stay for about 1 week until start to get routed back to their OC. Their idea of the MidWest Regional is now actually the Northeast.

From what I have been hearing as far as van, as far os OTR, pretty much forget it. The long hauls are either Team, IC or rail. The only real long hauls as far as OTR, dallas, houston and Charlotte. Case in point, I am now on a real nice 400 mile run, from time of dispatch to deliver, 2.5 days. This is after for the last 5 months being told that averaging 2600 miles per week is not a problem. In 5 months, seen 2 weeks over 2000 miles.

 

On the other talking point..... there is a strong push to not pay the driver from company funds but instead from collected receivables hence the completion factor.

I'm not with pumpkin however my guy does this too. It requires clear printing on the bill , lots of copies for me and a good business sense. I take two hours a week examining my current payroll to find out what's missing, copy it and resubmit it to payroll. I almost feel there's intent here to string this out with perhaps the goal being a driver may lose or forget something. Generally my pay runs 2 - 4 weeks behind the actual move for that move..... and I'm company !! I also end up with wild swings in my check.

I have been left with a strong taste of mistrust. I can't honestly tell you that I have gotten ALL my money. I had a bill show up on my Thanksgiving check that I pulled in July. The scary part is that I didn't catch it missing in July.......

What else have I missed ??????

 

Sound like life in Bulk is rough I run dedicated avg 2500k per run I have a back haul usually a day or two before I finish my current run and only twice in the last 6 month have I had to wait overnight to pick it up. I avg 8 stops on my way out so I get paid for 6 of them (not the first or last) Currently they are talking about changing to paying us after they have received proof of delivery (transflo paperwork) Why because to many drivers are to dang lazy and not transfloing in there paper work since there getting paid anyways. Was told we lost 10 million last year due to paper work not being turned in. My DBL has told us were missing 11k in paper work already on are account this year. My reply was fire the ones who are f*^king up.

 

I think there's a little fluff there frog...... even mega carriers can't stand to lose 10 mil, they would fold. There's just not that kind of revenue in trucks where one could lose 10 mil and keep operating.

In my fleet there are many checks and balances in the dispatch / billing system to alert mgmt. of freight pulled but not billed / collected starting with the driver not getting paid.

JMO