Dealing with brokers as a company driver

instead of trying to school me, maybe be a bit more upset with those bad apples that are giving your profession a bad name. My husband went above and beyond to try to work with these people and it could've led to an accident. It won't happen again.

 

Well, I can officially unsubscribe from this thread.

 

Currently don't deal with brokers at Swift, but I can tell you there are a lot of customers who track our trailers and have had CSR and DM and Planners breathing down my neck asking me why I am running late and the customer asking them why I'm not moving. A few weeks ago I screamed into my DM's ear over the phone "my truck doesn't do less than 60 unless I'm in a god #### school zone, and even then it's 59. I'll be there at the time I set my ETA. Quit calling me, I am in the sleeper as I know you can see." And then I hung up the phone. Haven't spoken to her since.

I haven't been late, my fault or otherwise, in a very long time. Normally if there is a window, I'm trying to deliver at the front end of it. Either way, I'm trying to work my clock with my next load in mind, not necessarily the current one. I know how Swift works at this point and so I want to make sure I'm not watching my 14 tick away as I sit waiting on a load. Or starting my clock to drive 4 hours and then park for 6 until a delivery when I already called ahead and can't get the load off early. I'll wait 5.5 hours and drive the 4 hours to deliver it, preserving my clock.

#### them man. Just deliver your load and block their calls. Swift has to call from private numbers and personal cell phones to reach me anymore. I even turn my Qualcomm off when I'm in the sleeper now.