Riddle me this...

I agree with you to a point. There have been times in my career where I was only offered junk for too long. I expect a reward load after doing a bad load or two. When it gets to 4-5 bad loads in a row, I put my foot down and say enough. I will not allow my willingness and patience to be taken advantage of.

There has also been an occasion or two where I had hours to run a load, but didn't have the energy. I get exhausted easily, and the constant overtime wears on me. That will probably be the thing that makes me change careers. As I get older, I won't be able to work the hours that are required of us anymore.

I very rarely turn down a load for a reason other than HOS or hometime, but I reserve the right to do so. I am not unreasonable about it, like the guy our OP mentioned. They must not mind, cause I'm still here in a Swift truck.

 

I guess I just still so wet behind the ears that I don't know the difference between a good load and a bad load. I've also got these freakin' blinders on that make me see every load as just something that needs to be done and that I am the driver who just happens to be positioned right (by location and timing) to do it. Regardless of the type of load or its' origin/destination, it's a load that a Swiftie (either me or someone else) has to do.

 

I'd rather be on the office end. Let him sit. He'll quit when he gets hungry.
That's one battle a driver can't win. Besides he can be fired for wasting fuel. You have to be fired because of no fault of your own to draw.

 

I am getting fussier with experience, or maybe it's just age Early on, I would do anything, go anywhere, and be excited and happy about it. Now I've had my bad experiences, and remember them. Not saying I won't do it, but I will do a little grumbling about it while I'm doing it!

Women can and will grumble. It's our right.

 

Guaranteed the company will fight it, especially Swift. I agree, I do believe most states have a disclaimer that if one is fired for just cause, one is not eligible for unemployment benefits.

 

Last night, I was preplanned on a JIT load for a very finicky customer in the Denver area. Delivered near midnight to a different finicky customer that refused to give me one of the gazillion empties sitting around in exchange for my loaded one. After being directed to two locations on The Great Trailer Chase, I pulled myself off the preplan so someone with a trailer could go pick it up, I could go to bed and ECT had time to put someone on it.

The empty I pulled from the yard earlier had a kingpin lock on it that the shop removed for me...after the dispatch window lady confirmed it was available, not attached to a truck and hooked it to me. Someone is going to think their kingpin lock is gone forever and might do a more convincing job of hoarding a trailer next time.

 

Hey, we men have rights too, ######. For instance, we have the right to....well, uh, to remain silent!

 

Oh, honey, you do a very lousy job of exercising that right!

 

Actually he is doing a fantastic job of it.......







LISTEN!>>>>>>>>>>>








Don't hear anything do you?


Men...we know when to be quiet!

 

So a little off topic here, but every darn time I see the title of this thread, I recall the phrase my hubby uses sometimes . . . 'So, riddle me this, bat girl.'

OK, back to your regular discussion, had to get that out of my system!