Dedicated Accounts

Run hard, never late, ive saved them service failors by rescueing loads from other drivers that screwed up orbrokedown came in xmas night to help them out when i just went home day before for hometime but im not special I am willing to do more than some of these lazy drivers out here

My almost 2yrs out here ive ran into drivers just exspecting to make $$$ with no effort they wanna take weekends off or sit in terminals and complain thats why I stand out from a lot I dont have a load im asking for 1 or I call and complain my time away from my wife n kids is to make money not sit and it isnt worth it vBulletin if I am not making at least $900 a wk and I Always make more unless I take my 5days off a month

 

He's a surge driver for them. Surge means excess loads that the DC drivers can not handle. He is not assigned to the dedicated fleet so he makes what he would doing OTR. He use's his OTR truck assigned by his home terminal, not the DC, so he can take it home. The drivers that are driving the DC company trucks have to leave them at the DC. He's not special, just using the rules to his advantage, and I don't blame him. His DL doesn't mind, one less driver that he/she has to worry about. If you like the work, long term surge is a good gig.

 

oh ok, do you just have to ask the DL's about surge work then? and does it also require so many months driving before they will do it or any company driver?

 

Agreed I just put in mentor app so I run there a few wks wjth students then go otr a few wks and go back after student is off truck Im going to try it and see how it goes once and drcide if I wanna keep doing it or not.

Not sure if I can handle someone in my truck for 6wks guess we will see I

 

I go both ways on the team subject, when I was with a mentor I hated not having privacy or enough space, while solo it just seems a little more boring at times. If I didnt have a baby at home I would take my wife along with me for a week or 2 at a time.

 

Oh cool I never knew what that term ment. So I'm guessing I'm a surge driver? Because costco has their own trucks but I'd say 90% of my loads are to and from there.

 

If u wanna be a surge driver DL cant help you have to ask the DC or some willl send u a message and say w e need yor help thats how I started and decided to stayon and been here 10months

 

That's how it works, you get a special invite buy virtue of being in the DC's spiderweb, in other words they see

A. you're empty within about 100 or so miles of them
B. they need extra trucks to help out with loads
C. you have a decent enough on time and safety record

They send you a very cheery message asking how are you doing, would you like to come over and run some (insert big box store name here) loads for us? You'll think you died and gone to heaven, the atmosphere is totally different. Planners have desks right out in the open, total open door policy, treat drivers like gold.

I did it for a short time out of Grandview WA but had to go hometime and never got back in their spiderweb area or they didn't need surge drivers anymore.

 

Ya got invited in Alanta Walmart DC asked to con e back didnt need me so I called the one im at then the bobtailed me in and bring me back everytime now even go home for restarts and hometime they give me a load I deliver then run home or on home time I drop trailer in ESTL and run.home and pu trlr on way back or bobtail in.

I love the way rhey treat u its n ice compared to otr and incourage u to call in if u need to and I rarely stay at truck stops unless on a backhual and a nice average paychecks

 

You don't know what I'd do for a dedicated account close to home for my man. OTR is gone to long for me.