Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Too late , see you tomorrow ...

 

You and I had similar weeks I see.

 

3 days in a row of blind routes. Today was a true blind route.15 stops 102 miles 697 cases. Out at our sub drop yard today.

None of the stops I really knew. All of them with some hard learning curve. The guy who normally does the route gets done with it way early of course he's twice my size and one of his steps his like 3 of mine. Also he knows the stops I don't. The area I was familiar with thT was not the problem, but the stops not so much pretty much winged it at every stop.

Most customers were okay a little annoyed but accepting because they can be as mad as they want isn't going to change things.

You know though these customers don't realize this, but I'm not the one who wronged them. I'm not the one who called off. There regular guy is the one who called it quits for the day not me. I'm out here trying to make fire rubbing two sticks together, working blind.

I'm towing the line for the others at the yard and also helping management which they do appreciate management was thinking thank god it's covered.

That is the life of a swing driver it's totally thankless, but the beauty of it is, you don't see those customers again usually for a while so what they think and if there happy or not with your service doesn't matter. All that matters is you got the route done.

 

I always have to laugh when they say "we don't want this." I'm like, look I'm not going door to door selling this stuff, this is your product that you ordered. Another quote i like is "poor planning on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine".

The nice thing about LTL is that most drivers are so scared to go anywhere they've never been before, especially guys that run terminal to terminal, that I get to make more money on less miles. i started my career hauling furniture for Ashley Distribution OTR running up to 15 stops, so these 4-6 drops are a piece of cake.

 

I had 17 stops yesterday and 15 today all blind routes. I don't like running blind but I've now done 3 days in a row blind.