Rookie loads and dealing with dispatch

Suck it up butter cup.

It's pretty much the same BS at every starter company. Dig in, get you're year in, then life is good.

Don't jump around to different companies, it will only hurt you.

 

Yeah, like Dave said the first year is pretty much going to be slow. They'll throw every crappy job they can at you and you can either take it or get pissed off and quit. I left my first company after 6 months when my weekly paychecks were averaging around $500. My second job paid a little better but ran me into the ground, and my third job was great. There is definitely an adjustment period in this business before you find a good fit. You'll find a lot of people here who don't think you should move around a lot, but from what I've seen, some companies treat drivers so bad and pay them so little, you'd be nuts to stay. Changing jobs in the first year didn't hurt me a bit.

 

You've had sound advice here, bite your tongue a bit, you really dont want the reputation of a moaner.
You will be able to teach your dispatcher how to run you but it will take time to do that and maybe they just dont have exactly what you want available right now, possibly they just dont book the sort of loads and timings like you want.
You do show an unusually well developed grasp of trip planning for a new driver and I'm quite certain they wont be expecting that, most first years really dont grasp that and have to be helped a lot more than you obviously do, and you're not going to be able to reinvent the wheel here.

 

Dont overthink it. Mega companies have 5 billion drivers to look after im sure ur request fell on deaf ears. Yes i know u want miles but u have to understand sometimes freight just isnt there especially if u were in a bad area in terms of freight. Being new u have no leverage in terms of negotiating better runs until u got some grease under ur finger nails. Whether u make the run in time or not it doesnt matter . dont kill urself just to get it there on time. If its gonna be late just communicate with ur company its very simple. But i would recommomend not barking orders at dispatch until u have proved urself or u will find urself without a job

 

Well harsh reality ... you need to stop thinking it is all about miles, the company doesn't care as long as you are not late or piss off a customer. Most likely you will be flagged as a complainer so learn how to manage your time, learn how to route properly and don't make waves, you are just a driver.

 

You can live on 500 miles a week if you knew what your net was and how to eat and drink a minimum cost for 7 days. And set the rest aside as savings.

Don't be making that kind of noise to dispatch, they will just lay a rope out on a mission impossible that you cannot do and fire you for cause just to eliminate the noise. They don't wanna hear it.

I hate to be blunt but that's trucking. Get what you get and be happy. Someday for you you will find something fulfilling and maybe profitable. But you have to take the bad with the good.

Ive had loads with the spouse as a team between Avenel NJ to Los Angeles inside of two complete days with about 10 minutes time on dispatch concern if it will be on time. We were there with 4 minutes to spare. And that was in a 63 mph truck skipping a fuel stop. No problem. Next load please.

Trust me, we have had loads that I could just basically burn the truck and trailer an stomp off in disgust at the shipper. But no we are past that.