Company won't let me go home for off time.

Kinda the same thing.......just spelled different

 

Ask your dispatch if he enjoyed dinner last night with his family. Does he have any plans for the up coming weekend/days off. Did he watch the Olympics at all. Starting to see where I'm going with this. How's his wife.

 

Not bad. A little less exuberant than I would have liked, but perhaps that's my fault

 

Y'all don't want to offend. Ease into it. Keeps them guessing.

 

The expectation will far exceed the actual event........

 

Roehl did this to me somewhat regularly, I remember a time I was supposed to go home and park at the Appleton Wisconsin terminal and instead they forced me to take a 34 at the crappy TA north of Madison Wisconsin less than 2 hours away. After my 34 was done they just put me right back on the road, I guess they just said oh well with my home time.

 

I just recently posted a thread about my company trying to do this, or at least robbing me of earned home time that we agreed to. After my recruiter sent emails to the new head boss and apparently possibly even the company owner that shes tight with, they gave me back all my earned home time and things have returned to pretty much normal.

But what I've learned, is companies will play you like a fish on a line as long as you let them. I made it clear from day 1 I will go anywhere, haul anything, but you better have my ### home on time, every time. I have and will leave the truck at a truck stop if you don't. They've deadheaded me home almost 300 miles to make sure I got home on time. Apparently a perfect driving record, perfect on time delivery and pickup record and 7 years of driving experience is enough for them to know I'm worth keeping.

Maybe.

 

I got seriously lucky when I applied for my first trucking job with J Rayl. I go out on Sunday afternoon or evening, and am home on Friday, usually in time for dinner with my family. I’m semi-regional driving out of Dallas, some weeks it’s mostly in Texas, other weeks I go as far as Ohio or California. It’s one of the reasons I’m still with them almost six years later.

 

Remember that you have the right to reject a load, OP. You can reject a load for any reason whatsoever, but of course, you can't do that constantly or they'll let you go reject loads elsewhere. If you're a good driver, though, who picks up and delivers on time and doesn't have incidents, preventables, or tickets, you absolutely should be able to get away with standing your ground on home-time, i.e., if you're overdue for home-time and they pre-plan you on a load that's STILL not going the right direction, you should be able to reject it, give the actual reason - that you're overdue for home-time - and insist they respect that, and you should be able to keep your job and get that home-time load. Or possibly even a deadhead straight home, rental car, or a plane ticket, if they absolutely can't find the right load for you. All depends on the company of course, but if PAM doesn't respect home-time and home-time is important to you, there are like 10,000 other trucking companies, dig?