2 hrs away could of had someone from home pick you up at the truck stop for couple of days at home.
Company won't let me go home for off time.
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Alanslayer, Aug 7, 2024.
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This topic is why you must talk to current drivers at a company before deciding to work for them.
Drive to the company yard and start asking drivers questions. The majority of new drivers do nothing but read a web site and sign a contract. If you don't care about enough to ask questions take your abuse like the victim you've become.Gearjammin' Penguin, Iceman1643, hope not dumb twucker and 1 other person Thank this. -
Can not grasp an idea what is all the fuss about. Working = making money. Why go home if money is pouring in like crazy every day away from it? Should be happy and thank the company for keeping the rolling going, especially now days.
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Same thing with getting home from the terminal, park it and go, tell it's my time, I'll be back when my time off is off. If load is taken while have to go do home time, why complain? Nobody forces nobody, it is usually agreed upon. -
Some drivers get crapped on, yelled at, threatened, and called names by the dispatcher and can’t figure out why. Here’s why: We teach people how to treat us. Don’t be nice. Nice people want you to like them. When someone craps on a nice guy, nice guy thinks if he is nicer, the person crapping on him will become nicer…so, basically nice guy rewards crappy behavior with good behavior. When you reward crappy behavior with good behavior, crappy behavior always gets worse. If you give a dog a reward for chewing on the furniture, do you think the dog is goingto stop chewing on the furniture?
Nice guy, stop being nice. Do not apologize for anything that you did not do wrong.
Ever see one of those drivers who get into yelling, screaming matches every time they have to talk to any office jockey? You can always tell. Everyone’s blood pressure is through the roof. A Hole truck driver. Everyone hates him. Cops give him every ticket they can ever stop. Every waitress spits in his food. Ralph Kramden reincarnated. Same problem. Says he doesn’t want to argue, BUT argues with everyone every hour of every day. Some dispatchers are this way too.
Dispatch: Are you loaded yet?
AH Dispatch: Why are you still sitting there? You have an appointment tomorrow, have you been in the office. Get up and go inside and find out what’s going on! Do I have to do all the thinking for you?
Nice Guy to Dispatch: I don’t know. I’m not sure. Do you think I should go inside and ask?
Nice Guy to AH Dispatch: Sorry! I will go inside and talk to someone.
AH Driver to Dispatch: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!! Of course I am not loaded! Is everyone stupid today?
(Of course we know that AH Driver and AH Dispatch are going to bang heads like big horn sheep. And there’s a good possibility that AH Driver has already pissed off everyone in the shipping office. And at the fuel desk. So, if you are not an AH Driver or a Nice Guy, how do you deal with the A Hole Dispatch?88 Alpha, Gearjammin' Penguin, Iceman1643 and 1 other person Thank this.
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