Micro Management has grown 200%

Gonna fix that for ya Mack

 

Well the DOT did get involved, but not in the way you predicted. Instead of hitting the shippers and receivers with fines, etc, they are now allowing drivers to use personal conveyance to get from a shipper/receiver to the nearest truck stop or other parking area.

Shippers and receivers will NEVER be held accountable for delaying a truck or driver.

 

Thats one reason I drive local now. I get 1 text with my 3 loads & then I send a text with the trailer I delivered & the mty trailer I pu. On friday I turn in my time sheets for the week & pay is direct deposited every other week. I talk with a company rep maybe 2 or 3 times a week if at all.
My job is so easy I almost feel quilty for how much they pay me to do it.

 

When I was with FFE, I get all the forms out of the room at Lancaster Texas once or twice a year when I finally show up.

I do anything and everything I can that at all possible keeps me far away from ANY company yard with company people able to tell me what to do. That is why I value extreme long hauls. Yakima Wa to Boston Market downtown over 6 days. Don't bother me. lol. I'll call you.

Long ago before that on Sunday I would be issued 25 drops in the North east. And then get told not to call unless I have a problem. Friday evening I am back at the yard with a empty truck and a stack of signed bills. (This is with a reefer no less)

I did not know it then but it was sometimes the best of times for me. No boss, no muss, no hassle, no frivilous make work bs and so on. Nothing. I was a true captian of the ship so to speak.

The North East is probably the worst part of the entire USA to work in with a 18 wheeler bar none. But I made it work because I never knew that little truth.

 

I am going on my 40th year. 38 of those as my own company. No ELD older truck, as my own boss I don't have to answer to some college clown in a cubicle telling me what to do
Established a route from Wi to SW Mo and back to WI. Been doing this route for 30 years now.

 

Unfortunately a lot of them are the companies that once required 5 years of experience with a spotless record and were everyones goal to work for someday. Someone usually had to retire in order to get in there. Now I see them advertising for drivers and offering sign on bonuses

 

Micromanaged! sounds like someone worked for (Blue Bird) Marten. Got to love theses collage kids so called driver managers and or planners. Ever worst at SRT! bye bye Charlie!