PTL - Fleet Managers who won't let you sleep and expect you to run unsafe tractors and trailers

Those are my understandings as well. Thanks much, and after the thunderstorms I hit coming through N Georgia, (###### thing nearly veered me left off a couple of mountainsides) I wasn't taking that tractor through any weather of any kind.

 

Thanks muchly, do you have a recomendation on a company who operate *decently*?

 

Pal, I was the guy who was always early. Paid the price for it a couple of times too. A pick up deadline four hours before I can legally - or safely - move the truck isn't a challenge, it's just plain stupidity on the part of dispatch. I did ask if they could adjust the time to let me get and run that load legally. It would have taken me back in the right direction at least. The tractor was slated to be decomissioned and its last two drivers had parked and abandoned it. I know exactly why. At least I brought the ###### thing back.

 

Builders Transportation outta Memphis, TN. Fair warning, though, we are 100% flatbed. No sissy pants doorswingers here. But, on the upside, we'll train ya how to be a REAL trucker! Lesson #1, don't take no crap from dispatch or load planners!

 

I will not negotiate on hometime, I work for you 3 weeks you will get me home ontime

 

Good post. If you bust your tail and you have given your best , there is absolutely no reason at all the company you drive for should not work to get you home on time !

 

knowing how alot of otr companies operate i wouldnt be surprised if he wasnt paid at all or was paid VERY LITTLE for all of the stuff he had to do. glorified slave ships, only thing worse is being in a rental slave ship and paying for your own fuel.

 

Lesson two, stay the #### in your cab along US79 and have a Ka-Bar with you.

Lesson three, stay the #### out of the memphis truckstops at night the trans, ####### and hookers will eat you up. Maybe damage your rig when you say no.

Lesson 4. Refer to Lesson one. Understand that you are the agent of your company on the road in the truck, YOU get to decide compliance or failure to abide by the laws under which you are license and trained to operate.

 

Sitting all day can be worse than sleeping. They snap there fingers. Run boy run. Not knowing the day is over. With e logs, they see you off duty. So here is the truth, you were working off duty to save hos, when you should have logged as on duty. Dot rules, not mine. The load planners only put you on when available. So you have to be ready after a 10 hr break .sitting in the driver's lounge at a truck stop is considered off duty. Unless you truck is in the shop and you are required to move it. That breaks your ten. So technically you have violated the 10 or split sleeper rule. Suggestion, put the truck out of service. Do not drive until legal to do so.