Quick question on who is screwing me or not

I can believe that. Its going to take time to get back to a prosperous economy. Not to get political, but the last 8 years have really stunk. Hopefully with new leadership we can correct that downward slide.

 

Amen !

 

That's ridiculous and a guy will sit there steaming and fuming over crazy conspiracy theories driving himself nuts over nothing. Have you ever worked in operations? A company with lots of trucks and customer freight to cover are concerned with one thing, covering loads. Driver pay is a fixed cost that averages out over an entire fleet. I got the same 3,000 mile weeks at the top of the payscale as I did at the bottom of it whenever the freight was there.

 

Customers set appointment times to their own needs. Not yours or your carrier's. Do you really think if they could utilize your available hours to the max they wouldn't?

 

Have you tried contacting the receiver and seeing if they can get you in sooner? I do that all the time and about 6 times out of 10 it works

 

This is a really good post. I'm convinced that talking your way into early deliveries frequently as a reefer driver is worth 1-2 WEEKS of work a year. Grocery stores in particular have a habit of eating tons and tons of your time... Being good at manipulating them into emptying you out early is money in the bank.

 

Your assuming that they have enough freight for all their drivers. What if they don't.
Just because your the closest doesn't mean you get the load. Thats just what they tell you, and you have no way
Of proving them right or wrong.
They can do whatever they want.
They can give the loads to whoever they want.

You actually believe these trucking companies do
Everything they tell you they do. They lie about everything.
They lied to get you in the door.

It's why they took the loads away from dispatchers and
Gave them to load planners, who the drivers are not
Allowed to talk too.
The dispatcher just gives you what the load planner gave him.
He's got no say in it unless you need to be home or
Something out of the ordinary has come up.

Who do you think is running more miles over the
Course of a year at these big companies.
The 6 year guy at .45cpm or the 1 year guy at .30cpm.
They didn't get rich being stupid.

Your the boss,it's your company.
If you got 2 drivers waiting on a load and only 1 load
To give. One makes .35cpm and the other makes .45cpm
And it's a 1000 mile load.
The driver at .35cpm is 20 miles farther away from
The shipper that the other guy.
Who you gonna give the load too.

We'll be cheap and say the load pays a buck a mile.
Let's see:
Driver A: .45cpm x 1000 miles= 450 bucks to
The driver and 550 to the company.

Driver B .35cpm x 1020 miles= 357 bucks to
The driver and 643 to the company.
That's 93 dollars more for the company on 1 load.
Now do that just 25 times a day at a company
With 3000 trucks. That's 2325 per day.

And you don't think they pay any attention too
To what each driver makes and where they are
Located when they dish out the loads.
Closest driver be dammed. That only matters
When everybody is paid the samething.

Again that's business 101: maximizing profits.
They don't care about being fair to the driver
Who is closer to the load.
The driver wouldn't know any of this anyway.

If you don't think this happens then you can
Walk into any mega carriers office tomorrow
Morning and be set for life by increasing their
Profits by 20 percent.

Your the boss,it's your company:
Who you gonna give that load too.

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Well that is one way to look at it.

 

Curious who do you drive for