Keyboard Pounding Monkeys Stike Again!

No I meant same as the ones we had when it was Central .
Idk I am gonna have to get on someone about this planning cause they suck, my load drops in the morning and still don't have another load yet , so basically I will drop sit half a day burn my 14 and maybe have one for the next day . Guess I better get comfortable. Lol

 

O/O is paid on Monday and company drivers are paid on Tuesday.

 

What I think is going on, and Steve kinda mentioned is these are brokered loads. He is a L/O with Swift and Swift has given some of their O/O and L/O to work with Swift per normal and others are on the Command broker list. If you don't like what you are offered on Mac30 or whatever you send out every hour. Steve calls the broker and says what do you have in this area? Some areas are great some are junk. The South East being their heavy frieght area. Broker loads can be stacked to a certain point. But they are handled differently as they say this load pays $2000, and you have to figure out gas, MT miles, Loaded Miles and all your costs to see if it is profitable, Sometimes anything is better then deadheading, but other's don't pay enough, better to wait on Swift to eventually come up with something you will take or to stop being so picky about where you are going.

Steve has been feeling guilty leaving me at home lately with the move, since I have to do all the old house and all the new house and all we talk about on the phone is the long list of stuff to get done, with only me to do it. Him getting home was important even if only for 34 hours. He also loves seeing what insanity comes over the qualcomm next.

 

The Way I get it is MsJamie is right you are shifted to different planners depending on where you are. Steve swears certain areas have lists of drivers who may have made them angry at one time and who treat them badly. With the right DM you can call or message and say what can you get me? Steve has also been at a Terminal and asked what can you do for me? You can be proactive...

But I also thought that 10-12 hours before your drop you can start searching every hour for your next load so that you aren't sitting after dropping you know where you are going next.

Lastly though with the get there early and drop to go off on another load I think Swift looks down on drivers leaving those short mile loads and won't allow it. Anyone can help on that one?

 

Maybe there is a difference between company and O/O?? Why I have no idea, but maybe?? OK I'm trying... :/

 

Wait what ? 1st paragraph last sentence . I for one am not picky at all , I take anything I get . My only compliant sometime is I go a week with loads that r less then 300 miles each , so I ask for maybe a little longer loads for the next eeek . I don't consider that picky. I veiw that as not wanting to see my bank account go to zero. Lol
Never once have been rude about the low mileage weeks either . I take it cause hey its better then nothing .

 

Well this this thread has gone in two different directions ... first Steve. The Command loads do not involve any planners. They go right to the dedicated CSR who puts it on your truck and commits you to it. The reason the CSR commits you is to keep the planners out of it. We had some issues at one point where the planners were snatching Command loads and putting them on other trucks.

So someone, either the CSR or Command put the wrong truck in the system.

Now for Central's issues. I don't know who plans Central. But I suspect that it is the incumbent Central planners that you have always had. The problem is that they are now planning through the Swift planning system. And just like you drivers, they are confused, pissed off, haven't fully grasped the system and don't know for sure what they can and can not do.

 

Yeah but if your my husband... you don't go to Montana, you can't get out, you have to watch Oregon and New Mexico because of fuel taxes.... The South East right now with all the ice and bad weather nope won't go there, to many MT miles, horrible mountain passes, load is too heavy ruins the mpg, Hate that shipper-reciever, My wife is whining need to go through home, to long of a date won't sit for days with a load... so many reasons to be picky about what load to take or not take. A L/O O/O perogative? I love his freedom to choose where and when he goes. I think he likes the independence too.

 

Thus is the reason I will not rent a truck .. cause that is basically all ur doing when leasing.

 

Here's my keyboard pounding monkey story for today.

3:44 left on the 70. Go pick up this load in 2 hours from now, 13 miles away. Final is 147 miles, and the load is a critical high value load that needs to move 200 miles from the moment you pick it up at 1100 and deliver at 0001.

They didn't say, but I guess the solution was to pick it up and go to one of the terminals and camp on it in a secure environment.

My solution? Close enough to be home by morning..