Hours?!?!

If you're right. Then it's his problem for not being ready to go after his 34 was over. Anyone in this business should know that loads can be ready anytime of the day. Thus when your 34 is up. If they need you. They are going to dispatch you.

 

No.
If OP didn't have an agreement before hand sure. It's still foolish to break up a set routine simply because they can.

It's a classic example of office workers not giving a ####. It's really not hard to keep a guy a consistent schedule, most places are just too lazy to put in the effort.

If I always got dispatched after 4pm I'd stay up so I could sleep during the day and be ready to run at the usual time. Like any sane person would assume.

If I always got dispatched at 6am, I would make sure to sleep the night before.

 

You're right I wouldn't lose my temper over it, but I would sleep till I felt good enough to get rolling.

I don't like the idea of guys running around bleary eyed trying to stay awake. It's just bad juju.

Ain't no freight on the planet worth someone's life.

 

So, from what the OP stated, and the responses, the OP was not ready to go when his reset was completed?

 

Clearly you should’ve leased on with BYOB&CBD instead. Lesson learned.

 

Leave out when you’re darn good and ready and not one second before! Right?

Meh, sure, why not?

 

Set hours, and trucking, the two are seperate things.
As are cars and fireplaces.

 

Nature of the business and other jobs as well.

 

Yeah, many, many moons ago when I was in my early twenties. I worked for a water damage/ mold remediation company. We were on call all week and every other weekend any time of day or night. We were called in to work at crazy hours all the time so having to go in a little early doesn't seem all that bad to me.