Please Define "Micromanage" in trucking.
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by insipidtoast, Jan 28, 2023.
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I'm guessing a lot of it can be customer-driven from past bad experiences or results hauling their freight and the company simply forces all drivers to comply rather than the "bad apples".
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I am a company driver, it is their truck and they are paying for the fuel.
Their fuel program figures out the best (probably the cheapest) places to fuel along my route.
It is never less than 60 gallons. And I might have a 60 gallon stop early in my run with a fill up later in a state that is cheaper.
And while it may be an assigned fuel stop, I do have some latitude.
Sometimes I will skip a fuel stop to save some time, and call for fuel when it is more to my liking. Sometimes they don't like me doing that, but there have been no real repercussions over it. I call in, the fuel route is re optimized with a new stop of their choosing. Simple.
It is usually the after-hours people that give me a hard time about it, not my own DM.
And in your scenario of being in WY with a winter storm coming in and I have 1/2 tank of fuel and might be sitting for a couple days, I could probably arrange for a fill up.
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