Low Miles/bills/running illegal

Hey truckers I truley understand the fact freight may be slow and you get a run and you want to run illegal, however please PRETTY PLEASE, keep in mind if you are running illegal you are taking that chance of not going home again. Either your life can be lost or someone else's (I hope it's not my child and in this situation you won't be home to pay any BILLS. I know it's tough lately, really I understand . I am the queen of understanding money/bills/being broke and stressed out. I live this daily and gosh how I would love to do something illegal (hell legal would be great) to get that extra money to get my life back on track due to a set back, however I can't. Why? Well I ponder sometimes "what if I can get by with it" then I ponder if I take that one chance will I get caught and my kids will suffer due to that one chance worse than what they would if I was just doing what I could.

I can't say enough when my almost 18 year old says to me "mom I am glad you don't give me everything I want" Her boyfriends mom gives him everything such as this: He is negative 1.27 in the bank account so she deposits $50.00. Well he of course is not learning to manage his money and I have been a firm believer I want my kids to learn not to rely on me (heck I can't afford it). I did however tell her be glad you have someone to rely on when you need help (she knows I would do what I can to help her REGARDLESS). But do you understand the kids will understand and actually relate better later if they have to do without the nike's. You just have to stick and get them to understand you are trying to do what you can and if it's not good enough sorry but I love you and I want to be home if daddy does something bad I might not be around to give you just the meal you eat .

Some kids do adjust to this situation and some just rebel. I am no pro but all I really want to get acrossed is that I don't want to hear you are in prison due to them nasty log books or I don't want to hear your daughter,son, grandkid coming on here saying my daddy, grandpa ran illegal and is now in prison and we are going to be homeless or how much we miss them

I can't stress it enough, winter is really bad time to be running illegal because the winter brings black ice etc and accidents are more likely to happen so PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE I BEG YOU, try to be as legal as possible and don't listen to the speed you may be taking (meaning caffeine, speed, caffein pills etc).

I hope you understand where I am coming from guys/ladies I am only once again trying to get you to see my point as I have been seeing WAY WAY WAY to many drivers running illegal lately Oh should I add you are giving me much more work to do

Oh let me add I don't mean make them logs look legal, remember if in an accident that is a DOT reportable accident they will probably be investigating you as you just shot someone (it's pretty much the same). So please make sure the logs reflect what you really did (understand what lines 1,2,3 & 4 means) and not just make them legal. I had a driver today it is logged legal, key word "logged legal" but it's not what he did and he ran over his 11,14 & 70 hour. So if he was in an accident I could talk to him from prison if he killed someone.

 

I know

 

I am not sure if you noticed a previous post I made about having to terminate drivers due to logs prior to Christmas and how bummed I felt because they wouldn't listen to me.

So yeah them letters I agree read them if you want and trash them if you want, I really don't care. What will happen at my company is I will call you when you are having issues and you will be put on a Corrective Action and don't scan your logs and you will sit until you do!


And since you are being pretty harsh I must say "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it". I complain about my job just like you and wish I could be you sometimes. The freedom of no one over my shoulder, smoking my cigarrette when I want. Stopping at the beach if I want, umm not to mention the other oppurtunities drivers have that I never will probably in my life experience.

My concern is for the drivers and you want to bash me
Sounds like one of the drivers we just let go that everyone else was to blame for the problems , but didn't realize he was causing his own problems.

I have helped many drivers understand the regulations after years of losing money they could of had and have been very gratefull and I never had a driver that I termed to say you did your job you tried to get me to understand them and I just need to try harder.

Now go to some other company and maybe they don't react on what they say. WE DO! So hopefully you don't ever driver one of our piecees of #### trucks one day


Also we demand can you pick it up on time? (Y OR N) can you deliver on time (Y or N) Yes I can pick up on time but no I can't deliver on time. Why can't you. I couldn't get there until 10:00 pm instead of 8:00 pm. Ok let me see if I can adjust that time. Yes we can move it to 12:00 am instead. Hmmm sounds simple to me. Now do you lose a load if you can't do it legally sometimes, yeap! Guess what you may never know if you "would" of been in an accident running illegal and BE GLAD you would never know.

Sorry you have such a bad attitude towards us office people, I hope I never went out of my way to help you like I do daily for drivers

Bash me I bash back, but a tad nicer

 

I know and this is the problem I have is I UNDERSTAND what you are saying totally and it's hard to do what I have to do when this happens to one of my drivers. I guess that's why I get frustrated and just wish drivers would do it legal and in doing so I wonder how freight just might spread out to make those drivers getting low miles get a little more.

I know we had a dedicated run and some of the drivers miles was low and others was "HIGH" Well they was running illegal and the others wasn't. When we got the others to run legal it spread out to be better for all. Minus the few that just couldn't live on 3500 miles a week (needed 7,000 a week he said, I said u will be gone in 3 months). He quit. I hope he is still alive and free Drivers on that run was complaining I could of done it legal but he took it.

That's not all directed to you TruckerJo by any means, just something to maybe help others understand. It won't work I am beating a dead horse aren't I. Or should I say dead truck?

 

DO YOU L.O.L.