Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

30 mins for a d/h is reasonable, by the time you check in, drop, hook, DO A PRE-TRIP, etc....it's reasonable.

I myself have nothing to hide. Some drivers are lazy...some don't want to work as hard. I could work harder than I do, but at 53, I don't care to any longer and really have no need to.

I've been out about 33 days. Today is the first day I've been off, as I'm waiting in KC for service, so I've been running off recap for weeks. Is 2900 miles slammin'? No, probably not. But at .46 a mile, it's not bad. I get hassled very little....about the only thing I fight with them about is running me on the OH/PA routine. My average miles at Schneider was 2400 on a seven-day week. Here at Crete, it's probably close to 2900 to 3000. I'll take it.

And what constitutes micro-managing? Some argue dictating fuel stops is. I say BS. The company has knowledge as to the best buys for fuel. It's their truck, their money. Some drivers just can't stand to be told anything because they consider it an affront to their intelligence. Poly doesn't allow brooms on the back of their tractors. If this were a Crete rule, some here would ##### and moan that that was micro-managing. But at Poly, it's all fine and dandy.

I've also spoken to several Poly drivers on the road, and have heard far, far less glowing reviews than those you read here. So believe what you will....we are all just words on a screen.

 

He was talking about making 47cpm at Crete. It is 48cpm at Poly.

 

Does Poly use the EZ Pass ?

Or are the drivers required to use cash and turn in the receipts to balance the books ?

 

2900 is a lot , I would faint if I saw that much on my paycheck .

 

I read this post and just had to respond so here goes...
I agree that .5 hours is a reasonable amount of time to log for a d/h. Poly wants to see that on the Logs as well. DOT also likes to see it.

You are most definitely running pretty good miles for Crete. You would be hard pressed to run anymore than what you listed even if you wanted to run harder. We both know they got to give you the loads to run miles and if we're both being honest we both know they start holding back when your miles get so high. Keeps you from drawing attention from DOT about why your miles are so high and so on. Now throw in the last point you kind of mentioned. It's called Forced dispatch so you run where they tell you for the most part. No need to mention more on this since we both know what forced dispatch means. You do sometimes get a small choice of loads but it's rare anymore.

I'm not crazy about diving into the whole fuel process by Crete. However, I will mention a couple of things you didn't. Crete does some homework on the fuel solution they give you but it is mostly limited to Price as you should know. It also limits your route choice for the load. I know you can request a route change and fuel solution but come on...really? Now throw in some of the micro managed parts like only get 50 gallons here at this tiny piece of crap fuel stop you really have no business going into so we save a penny a gallon. Forget it might take you an hour just to get in and out of this place as we both know happens quite often. Then stop again over here to fill up at another crap stop. They don't pay you to fuel and they are eating up a lot of your available driving time and so on. So as you can see...there is a lot more to it depending on how you look at it and what you choose to report. At the end of the day it just bothers some people. Others don't let it bother them. Some take it as micro managing and so on.

I've never had the desire to carry my broom on the back of any truck. I'm probably to picky about the crap from outside that might gather on it. Anyways, I don't recall anyone posting that it was fine and dandy to be told what to do with it at Poly. There are plenty of ridiculous rules that drivers don't care for here at Poly as well. Maybe we don't mention them enough on here for you to know it.

I respect your comments to believe what you want about Poly. I mean you're going to anyway so there's that. I like to think you get more insight here from us about Poly than some driver you talk to for a few minutes at a truck stop but WHATEVER! It's not all GLOWING on here as you mention. I'm guessing it might sound that way since many times we mention we are somewhat happy here. That just kills people to hear that crap. Let's just all be miserable so it makes others feel better about what they do for a living. Ok...there's more words on the screen for you to digest. I've worked at Crete as I've mentioned several times. IMO it's not nearly as good for me as Poly is. That doesn't mean it's a bad place to work. It just doesn't measure up for me. Maybe if you ever worked for Poly then you'd better know how it stacks up for you. I've always enjoyed reading your Posts and I respect your thoughts. I did kind of take your last few words negatively but it's all good. Nice to have some perspective from all sides on this thread. As always, take care out there.

 

30 min at some places is a reasonable time, like those Wally d/c's that assign you an empty, or one you have to check out in the receiving office before leaving...but unless you dawdle around, it shouldn't take that long, especially on e-log. Remember, you did a pretrip prior to arriving, so you are not re-pretripping, you are posttripping your drop trailer and pretripping your hook trailer...and the trailer is the easier of the 2 vehicles you inspect when doing a pre/posttrip. So, unless there is something amiss, 30 minutes is the max. I have done a drop and hook at a Wally in 15 (on e-log) with Crete, and the log department questioned it...until I pointed out that I was on line 3 just before and just after...and with the number of new trailers they had...problems during an inspection were easy to spot.

Enjoy the good times there while you can...in a few years, you'll be like I was getting 9000 miles a month if your lucky.

As far as the Poly drivers you talked to on the road that weren't happy...there are some, especially the ones that have been here quite a while...mainly because they haven't had deal with the majority of companies out there in what the trucking industry has become to see how much better they have it at Poly. They're comparing what they have now to what Poly use to be. Much like many did at Crete. In fact, a group left to lease trucks from Schneider thinking their John Deere would be mowing greener pastures...within a few months several were asking to return to Poly.

 

Hehe...come on MeV...it's time to read more of the thread. If you can read these posts then you can read the thread. Your guess at the answer to your question is correct. We don't have EZ Pass. You pay and then it's settled out on the trip you turn in. Now go do some reading when you get time. Hehe!

 

I've never talked to a Poly driver on the road , ive only seen 2 Poly trucks in the last few weeks, an actual Poly sighting out here is rare. I feel the folks here at the forum are shooting straight,So I'll just keep my fingers crossed they might need me.If not , then it won't be the end of the world.
I'll begin my search again should Poly fall through.

 

so im rollin along thinkn man i sure am gettn miserable, and everything is gettn on my nerves and im feelin like i did back in the day with jb hunt and i cant figure out why, when for the most part ive liked this job, so im thinkn and i realize that ive had 2 days at home in the last 7 wks and that was for a root canal! now lets not get crazy i couldv been home on a few trips and also i didnt ask for a trip home untill now and im pretty sure i burnt myself out an need a recharge so im headed home for 9 days thru mem day to get my sanity back, i cant imagine being out here as much as we are and not gettn a good break, if i had to come back out after a few days i would prob go monkeyhouse on everyone lol i been just rollin along trip after trip and im spent, but it sure flys by on thes long runs. this hometime policy is gonna b a lifesaver for me.
well everyone have a good holiday im gonna be rechargn the batts, and dont pay any attention to that man behind the curtain.

 

Im hearing there is a long line to get into Poly

like 200 people and 5 trucks or so .

This is good , but its also not good (for me)

Can one of you insiders ask and see how long the line is ?

is it like a Walmart stampede on the day after thanks giving ?

CCC is definitely a NO GO , i had a vision about them earlier today , No CCC ! >.<

.... don't do a mental burnout againstthewind