Quality Carriers (bulk tank)

Who is getting paid to load the trailers. I agree if I could hook preloaded trailers all or even most of the time I could cut my wasted time in half. Heck, one of our major recievers takes up to 8 hours to unload us and then we have to go washout. Oh and we have to move that trailer at least once from the staging area to the unloading area and then wake up again to drive a short distance to the washout. No wonder I am always tired.

Who is being paid to load your trailers? Do you have extra trailers and shag drivers at the shippers? And who is paid to babysit the trailers for washouts.

Can you fool an auditor if he/she has access to a GPS trail of your whereabouts. I agree you cannot. But where in the FMCSA rules is it stated that a company has to have GPS in their trucks let alone provide the history to an auditor? Thus, w/o the GPS what protects the driver from having to choose between whistle blower status or unemployment? It is my guess that auditors are not very in depth or they are looking the other way. During Senate hearings some commentators called our log books comic books and I understand why.

I have been mobile DOT stopped once in three years of driving. He had 7 days of logs to look at in 20 minutes during which time he also had to inspect my truck, not get run over, and write me a ticket. The rest of the time you can choose to a greater or lessor degree how often you want to visit the scales. When the government levels the playing field by making all companies put little black boxes in all trucks I will believe the government is trying do do something except pull the wool over the eyes of the public that they are serious about uniform enforcement of HOS rules.

BRI

 

How heavy are those loads that get dropped and hooked? Its seems to me that you'd have to have all your trucks and trailers be identical to axle out. My company put me in a newer truck and I had to have them move the kingpin back on my trailer just to get my axle weights even. Just sliding the fithwheel didn't do it. Our trucks and trailers are all so different, we'd never get away with the drop and hook thing.

 

do you know about the baltimore md term

 

i just washed out at the qualawash in richmond CA. it wash the slowest and worst place i have ever been too!! i'll go to stockton ca. before i ever go back to those jerks! rant over! i have met some great people that drive for QC.

 

All the QC drivers that I run into seem happy other than the usuall complaints.
As far as running tanker legally and still making money I completly agree with you that you can.
The run I'm doing right now is decanted oil from bp refinery in toledo to kinder morgan in Argo,Ill. It pays about 1,050 to 1,150 to go 262 miles and deadhead back.
Because of the possible delays at shipper or receiver they are preloading my trailer for me at night so their are no HOS issues.
I work for advantage tank lines,a division of Kenan advantage group and they treat the HOS the same and equipment inspection.
Tanker companies are realizing that doing things legally and safe will save them millions,and forcing recievers to understand the way we run.
On the other hand I've never drove for anyone else that did things right.

 

just to clarify the money, thats revenue to the truck not to me. I am a company driver that get paid hourly.