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Does anyone know what will happen if we (who don't have them) don't get elogs installed by Jan 1?

It's the best way for me to put up an 11
+ hour day. Using this technique I racked up 755 miles in a 24 hour period once, my record. I've read that another guy put up 903 miles doing it.

One of the very few things I learned from my mentor was to let a preplan "cook". Read it, trip plan it, but don't respond to it right away. Loads like you're describing, I call them "blown loads". A planner screwed up or something, trying to get some driver to commit on it and the blame gets transferred. If you let it sit there, yes you can lose the load or your can respond N with updated time, but chances are, they only see the N and remove it right away.
Here's a good story of one that worked out great for me. Waited around all dang day for a preplan, finally went to bed. About 5AM, beep. Go 45 miles east to get this tcalled trailer, then 230 miles west to deliver by 11AM. Totally doable if I wasn't snug in my bed, not had my coffee yet and have to jump up and go from 0-60 like THAT. I was sitting bobtail in a Walmart DC, this particular place will not let you leave without an empty trailer. So all this is going through my mind and how much stress this load would be if I accept it. I got my empty trailer, bounced out to the local truck stop for coffee and breakfast, beep, "are you going to go pick up that load you committed to?" I never committed to it. Soon the planner is calling practically begging me to take the load, no service failure etc. Nice to feel needed lol.

LOL I started doing that too. I go 1 more and set it 12 hours out to give me some dang breathing room. They schedule this stuff so tight you almost don't have time for a 15 minute pretrip -- it's like "your 10 is up start rolling fool!"

 

A planner screwed up or something, trying to get some driver to commit on it and the blame gets transferred.

My current load is like that.
Unfortunately I accepted it while on a very tight run.

The past 2 weeks have been spent mostly in the shop. I only had 150 miles in almost 2 weeks, and after almost 4 days sitting (after getting it out of the shop) I accepted a load that was very tight on time.

430 miles, and after scaling the load I only had about 30 minutes to spare for any kind of breaks. Didn't even have time to fuel before delivery, so just had to hope I had enough to get there.
While driving I got my 'next load assignment'. Took a quick look at it while eating a quick sandwich and accepted it.
Failed to notice it was a live load.

It picked up at 1500 and delivered at 0930 the next morning (supposed to be this morning), 400 miles away.
Well, the loading ended up taking 2.5 hours. My GPS gave an ETA of 0030, but I had to take a 10 before I could deliver so I knew I would never make it.

Sent a Mac22 last night (after calling my DM and explaining what happened), saying the appointment times gave no allowance for the live load.

Get a message around 0730 this morning stating the load could not be delivered late and they were working on a t-call. ?

Then at 0930 I get a new appointment for tomorrow at 0930.
So I have to sit on it for a day.
Now I'll see if I get a service failure over it, too.


From now on, especially with this new system, I'll not rush in. I'll wait until I can properly assess the load, even if it takes an extra 6 hours.
And even if I am hurting for miles and money.

 

Can not believe todays PPLAN. PU in the afternoon, and when I saw the pplan, 1051 mile, back up to Marcy, NY, Wally World. It had delievery time 0001 on 11/20 to 2359 on the 21st. I was thinking, wow, a 48 hour window. Thought, this will change when dispatched, and lo and behold, got mt tonight, got the disp and it did not change. I will say, I will be dragging my feet some. I could get it there Sunday if push and use lots of hours, but then deal with night dispatch and planners in Syracuse again. Decided, will just arrive Monday morning with lots of heads up with MAC 34. Also, the only place to park is 18 miles away, and $15/night. Also, does not load until 1500 so I do not think that I will get that far after loading. Nice thing, 9K lbs. Wrangler.

 

Ewww don't like Marcy NY. No place to park without driving 60 miles or running up to the service plaza and hoping there is a spot to park. There is a little small parking area if you go west on 90 after you get back on 90.

 

Any one on the post that's a member of the swift advisory board? These are the things you need to be discussing at the board meetings.

I saw a few company trucks with "ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER" written on both sides of the hood, who are they and what do they do?

 

Advisory Board members are specific drivers hand picked by terminal managers who are tasked with blowing smoke up drivers' butts and sunshine up corporate butts.

 

The last high security load that I had, before I even hooked up to the trailer, I had to have a one on one meeting with Loss Prevention there in Phoenix, and then have security meet me at my trailer so that they could unlock and make sure that I was hooked. It was a bait or sting trailer going from one State Police to another. I am just waiting until tomorrow afternoon when I start to hit that MAC 30 constantly. I just hate dealing with the planners out of Syracuse, them and their little games.

 

HiVal loads require 200 miles before stopping.

That is hard enough - and dangerous enough. By that time, I am starting to go cross-eyed.

If I was told to drive nearly 400 miles before stopping I'd say - up your's!

No load of I-phones is worth either my life, or the lives of others.
Driving that long is stupid.

I lose my edge, my concentration, my alertness.
Everything startys too gu fuzzzyyy..//??


I'd take a service failure before I would even hook to a load like that.