Maverick .... from a wife's perspective

True, but these places are getting slim to none. Some you can arrive 1 hour prior to and Lord help you if you need to do your log book before you roll, because some get their freight then they want you off the property. The older I get the less I like sleeping at a cons or shipper. I want to get up when I want and not have some fool banging on my door 4 hours before my 10 is up... we will unload you now.. your empty now; so leave our lot... and I like to have coffee and a rest room available when I wake up...

 

I am exactly the same way.
I will sleep at shippers/ receivers sometimes. But would much rather not.
Also it depends on who the shipper/ receiver is.
The places that have allot of trucks in and out, are the ones with the most rules about sleeping on there property. They get too many trucks in there for 10 hours they will run out of space to park ones that need to be there for load and unloading.
Smaller company's usually do not mind at all if drivers are there. It is the big boys moving the most freight (at the cheapest rates) that complain.

 

Agreed...I never sleep on site.

 

Thats 30 miles from my house...where he is headed is just past Arvin Meritor. He'll deliver to the little shop down in the holler on the left.

The guy that owns the trucking company across the street (East Tennessee Truck Lines) is an old friend of mine...I drove for him for a while.

The guys there at MCR where he'll deliver are great...very nice people.


The simple explanation for Ft. Smith is that they just can't keep up...not Maverick, I'm referring to MacSteel.

 

I'm wanting to get into flatbed.. But I'm woundering.. How many months of otr does maverick require? I heard six but that's hear-say as well. I live maybe two hours from little rock..

I know my dad worked here for a bit and really liked it. Said their a great company and their honest. Thanks for any info!

 

Appointment times i would say are made by the customer because they know approx how many trucks they can load/unload in lets say an hour so they try not to overbook to reduce or eliminate detention claims. In a perfect world, drivers stick to their appointment times and are not early or late, cranes dont break down, forklifts dont either, traffic jams and accidents dont make drivers late, etc. and frustrated steel workers dont mind working even though they make less money actually working rather than on unemployment and shop pay as was explained to me by an employee at Columbus coatings in columbus, ohio.

He was rather frustrated or appeared to be. I commented it must be really frustrating to be laid off then called back to work for a big order (i had heard him talking with another employee) He said it was because he made more money at home with his unemployment and shop pay from the union than he did actually working.

I've unfortunately had to sleep in some areas that I'd rather not. I have a sign I put in the window...." I dont want my rims polished. I dont want to buy anything you have to sell. I need sleep so please do not disturb. " Of course the guy that likes to idle in 65 degree weather hauling a reefer that'd wake the dead usually doesn't bother to read it before he parks beside me. lol.

 

Next time your there check out TMC. I used to load there all the time. Almost every TMC will toss straps there.

 

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