FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Are they going to be able to find you something that fits you better than a Cascadia? That’s a long commitment for a truck that is suboptimal for your physique.
If you raid the 401k the taxes really, really suck.
I hope it goes great for you.

 

Dang, that’s impressive.

I would like to find a good “Service Only” plan that doesn’t build in a “free device” every 2-3 years into the Prices. They supposedly did away with those plans a few years back and now they all come back.

 

While I do certainly agree about not getting fired over it, I do think at times the PC policy is way too limiting. I’m not talking about any inappropriate use of PC. Actual personal use of a CMV.

Literally “going home” use.
(but I have other examples)

Actual example here… last trip to SC I was heading back to see and play with my 95# Pit one last day before putting him down due to cancer tumors that I found the last time I was in SC.

Long story short, I was in NJ and thought I could just get a Broker Load south and then another one to get back up here to run Dedicated. But instead they needed me to run a load all the way back to Omaha/Lincoln to get a load to Savannah before heading to SC. Ok, trying to be flexible and I don’t see all the pieces, etc.

It looked like I might have an hour left on my 70 after delivery, a couple days out. But it’s 3 hours home. 3 less 1 on my 70 less 1 on PC and I’m coming up short by an hour. I call in ahead to see about getting PC limit turned off or extended and was told “no but they would ask. If you dont hear back it was a no.” … I never heard back so I guess that’s a no. (Or a ball got dropped)

Now turns out this is a moot point as I actually came up 2 hours short of getting to SAV without my next day recap so I had to roll over and drop next day then head to SC on my recap hours and didn’t touch PC. (I was a good boy staying within the HOS Rules)

BUT, ya… seems some “company policy” would have had this Driver stop an hour short of where I was trying to get to … legally, using PC.

So ya, I too came pretty darn close to a “f company policy” moment/decision myself. Now maybe another call with more of the sob story would have changed the decision, but a “company policy” keeping a driver from “going home” after a delivery, with an empty trailer…

{insert eye roll here}

just the story. Not #####ing. But ya, I think we could lighten up a bit at times. For legit reasons.

just my $0.02

 

When I brought it up I was a little grumpy already and knew there was weather coming in. A lot of times I’ll bounce home from the Omaha area if there’s no paper to shuttle to Lincoln. So I was trying to guess about stuff a couple days out. I was already on my way to Clayton when they sent my reload, and given the kind of day I was already having the “it is what it is” response kinda bugged me.

After I dropped in Bellevue I grabbed one out of CB going to Crete, so I knew at the very least I could PC home from there if I had to. But I ended up not needing to, although I should’ve PC’d from where I drop my trailer because my clock read exactly 70 hours when I parked.

I will admit I was already grumpy from being in the wind for days on end and wondering how bad the blizzard was going to be. But everything worked out.

 

Well, the day did not go to plan. I was a few miles from my delivery in Lincoln when a young man made an unfortunate decision. Thank God no one was hurt but I am probably doing a truck swap tomorrow's as mine is looking a bit rough and isn’t a candidate for going to California without some TLC.

 

Glad no one was hurt. That does suck though. He run a light? Stop sign? Hopefully no trouble for you.

 

i hope they do but i may have a better chance of winning the lottery

 

Let me guess, someone decided to turn left directly in front of you? That's what happened to me

 

Ya, the type of day certainly impacts us all for sure. And as good as this place is, it’s still trucking and sometimes “it just is what it is”… not sure there is a fix for that aspect.