From Company driver to L/P

I just sat at a shipper for 4 hours after on time arrival. Load instructions said if I missed my appt I would be charged $25 for every hour late. Guess the shipper owes me $100. I'll hold my breath. Besides the lost time that 4 hrs will mean I won't have enough time on tomorrow' log to deliver and pick up next load which means I won't get enough miles in by cutoff to meet my obligations. So I got doubled forked. Once by shipper twice by hours of service. Phphpthttt.

 

That's always happened, during EVERY snowstorm in the South. It has nothing to do with ELD.

 

It’s pretty clear that you’re going to come up with tons of excuses about ELD’s. The fact of the matter is that they are here like it or not. So I’d suggest either going along with it, or getting out of the business. It doesn’t sound like it’s been that profitable to you guys anyways.

 

The ELD is a pain in the neck. It interferes with productivity. It makes me shut down when I don't want to and causes me to take less (or no) 10 to 15 minute stretch breaks. I think it probably does protect company drivers from being abused out of sleep time but that's the only positive to it I can think of.

 

Well if you have a day of nothing but driving, you can take plenty of stretch breaks.

 

Everyone wants to be you.

 

That’s not what I’m saying. But unless you’re unloading and reloading every single day of the week, then I don’t see a problem