Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

No you dont....and check out the weigh my truck app. You never have to go in the store to get your ticket.

 

I was told by my trainer and in orientation to scan all receipts for that load. I scan all scale receipts. It doesn't cost you anything so just scanned them if you have them.
I bet if you call accounting they'll tell you to scan them. That would be the correct answer notwhat some guy in the truckers lounge tells you.

I had somebody tell me this in the trucker lounge in coon Rapids the other day. They said that someone else told them they don't need to scan the weigh tickets and no one's ever said anything. They also said you don't need to write your freight bill and trip number and name on all the bills. Because nobody ever told them they were doing it wrong. But my trainer and in orientation said to do it that way. So that's the way I'm going to do it. It only takes a few minutes. To me the best way to not be micromanaged is to do our jobs correctly. If we start taking shortcuts that's wihen management is going to start micromanaging the job because were not doing it correctly.

 

For those of you who use the Transflo app, approximately how much data does it use?

 

I don't know for sure, but not enough to register on my monthly usage...

 

<0.01 GB so far this month. Might get up to 0.01 GB.

 

Hey all, please excuse my angry post earlier.

Let me be clear: I really like Magnum in general. Great equipment, no micromanagement, generally great corporate culture. I had a great talk with Chad yesterday and made some progress. I'm going to give this anothr couple months before I make any decisions. Sounds like good things are coming, I'll stick around to see if they really are.

I turned down my first load EVER. It was another 4-stop load over 2 days and I just said no, As Chad advised me to. Of course now I'm down sick as a dog and will have to drive like Heck to get me to my appointment Monday. But THAT is what I signed up for as a driver.

I'm not down on magnum, but wow, you DO need to say "no," on occasion or you'll be getting crap loads.

I'm used to not being "able" to say no.

Chad said the regional dispatch system had its weakness in that if you just took one for the team, the next dispatcher didn't know and would ask you to do it again. He said it's appropriate to say "no," in those instances. Which is a totally different ballgame than I'm used to. What I'm used to is that if you say "no," you'll be relegated to craptastic runs.

Anyway, hope that info is useful out there. Please excuse the intemperate nature of my laast post. I was REALLY pissed off and venting.

There are some issues, to be sure. But for the most part, it still seems like the right choice. The next couple of months will be the test of the pudding.

 

The whole sending in your scale receipt, I don't see the point in sending it in if we are authorized to pay for scales with our corporate card. We can pay for scales and fuel with the card, that's it. So the way I look at it is, if you are sending in you're scale receipt, you might as well send in a fuel receipt for the trip. I mean that is the same concept... I don't send them in and was only told that I needed too if I pay out of pocket and want to be reimbursed.

The whole trip # and fb # on each and every sheet, I don't do it. I used to. But I am not going to write that on 26 pages of a HAZMAT load. If I have a multi drop I will put which FB# it is on each load to show separation of each drop. I will write it on the first page of a bill and I will put it on receipts. They get a trip sheet with the number of pages being sent and when I send, I get a confirmation on all sheets and I make sure my count is correct. I don't turn in my hard copy of my bills in until I see "approved" on my driver drill down and it usually approves after a few hours of me sending it if it's during working hours. Not everyone may agree with this but I write neat, I send in my bills withing hours after a completed load, and I have yet to have an issue.

 

I will write down the trip# and FB# on every scanned piece as soon as they start paying me $30 to do a SCAN.

How many of those office people have to take their time cards home and fill them out on their own time, unpaid? That's right, NONE of them. They want me to do that ####, they can bloody well add $30 to every trip, 'cause we already do enough for free.

I scale, free.

I adjust my tandems free.

I sit at a shiiper/receiver for 2 hours free.

###### if I'm gonna fill out paperwork that if they just LOOKED at it they would already know it, for free too.

It might make sense if I was getting 3000+ miles per week. at Sub-2000 miles? Gimme a break. The offic staff can just get used to looking at one file at a time.

 

I don't know I'm sitting anyway so writing on the bills just isn't that big a deal to me and I always scan in my weigh ticket, when I weigh as I tend to use the suspension load gage and just audit it to keep myself honest.

Given the paperwork in my previous career this really ain't that bad...

 

Any one at Coon Rapids?