Gettin Tired Of The Lazy Don't Give a Crap Bums

no no no...you really need to read posts better, and not read into them what you want. If you need...i'm sure mommy can help you read 'em. LOL

I'm saying a driver should get paid the fine swift charges the driver who drops a trailer with a problem that would put the trailer Out of Service. Something like knowing there was a problem with the ABS valve for the trailer brakes, or if there was a hinge that was broke, or a leaky tire that the driver would KNOW would be flat by the time the trailer got unloaded, let alone picked up by another driver 2-3 days later. I mean something that would cause a fellow driver time and money to sit and wait around for, to get fixed. And maybe cost them a good paying load??? How would YOU like to be that driver.....get a preplan for a 1500 mi run that has to pick up in 90 min. Only to get directions for a proper trailer for said PP, only to find out the ONLY trailer available has a flat tire, off the bead, and you also notice there is a door seal missing? How happy would you be, that that trailer sat there (probably) for 2-3 days, and the previous driver could have sent in a macro to get on-road to come out and fix it?

sweeping out a trailer? thats part of your job of being a professional driver. All my trailers are swept out prior to showing up to a shipper, whether its a food load or not.

 

that sounds alot like these high schooler kids who think they should get some sort of cash 'bonus' for showing up to work on time for 3 or 6 months. If i was the manager, and some little twerp came up asking about a bonus for being ontime to work and never calling in sick....i'd say, "your bonus is you get to keep your job."

sweeping out a trailer, like i just said, is part of being a professional driver. Just get done with a live unload? spend 5 minutes and sweep the thing out. Will save you time down the road (if your next load is a live load) or will save the next driver time.

But oh no....we dont want to save another driver time, cause nobody does the same for me, to save ME time....right? its nice to grab an MT to see its been swept. Even if they've swept it into a little pile by the door cause they didnt have a 5 gal bucket of their own to put trailer debris into.....still a nice gesture, and shows professionalism.

 

thanks i got my mommy to read it to me and she told me i miss read your post so im sorry about that. By the way which terminal did you pick your l/O truck from? I swear i was at a terminal 3 months ago talking to a guy that was waiting to pick up his lease truck reminded of your attitude not being mean just curious

 

I hope not... that would require a Level 5 washout.

 

no--its not a high school thing--its actually a pretty big reefer co that does that---with very nice equipment that the drivers take pride in---they have all kinds of little perks like that
i guess maybe they realize that the driver is paid to drive--the"this falls under your job" crap has gone to far
do you know another job where you would be asked to perform a duty for free?
others get paid x amount to pretrip the trailer--or wash the truck the only one i havnt heard of is fuel the truck
now i suppose if you are getting drop pay--ok you could consider the sweeping as being paid for

 

i picked it up in Columbus. signed the paperwork on the 15th of Oct. And I dont even recall even talking to many people. See, i'm not one to sit out back smoking/shootin' the SHATner bad mouthin' a company, whining i'm not getting miles (when i've been turning down 250-300 mi runs), etc. Get the picture? Now if i'm a table listening to a conversation, and i KNOW one of the guys is giving out wrong information, or one of these 'student know it alls'.....yeah...i'm going to mention something to them.

otherwise, i just sit there, mind my own business, and listen to the free entertainment.

 

dont be silly---the body goes back to the office as a dispatcher trainee

 

sounds like if you had a job that punched a time clock, you want paid for all the time you spend walkin to and from your car in the company parking lot, too...huh?

is it not part of your job as a representitive of the company you drive for, to present a clean trailer available to load? The customer dont care if you just picked up this trailer. The customer dont care if YOU drove the truck....all they see is the 'company' name on the side of the trailer and/or the name on the paperwork.

Lets say you get to a shipper that requires clean trailers, and yours happens to be clean, but because of a policy at the shipper, they wont load a trailer with a nail sticking up because they slip sheet the load, or because they dont want it going thru a forklift tire. You want paid $50 to pull a nail?? come on......

 

like i said just curious but a short verison like columbus would have worked for me. but if your in decatur next week look me up i'll buy you a soda

 

no more soda for me....going back to drinking water.