Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

The more they fix them,the worse they get.

 

Just so you know I’ve worked for several small carriers. around 100 to 200 trucks and some of those have been worse than this company… And worse than some of the megas

 

You guys make bank on your mileage rate but it’s a shame that every weekend either you or Snack dude is dealing with the same issues with team members.

 

First of all it’s very rare that I deal with these issues so don’t sit there and say that I deal with it every weekend because I don’t once in a blue moon I have these issues

 

On the Crete side they always wanna give that short haul unproductive loads I've been turning some of those down if they don't back it up with a good load... usually I get a better load if I just push back and ask for it ...don't know if Shaffer is the same way but if you can get me out of doing some crappy loads I'd say try it.....

 

It’s the luck of the draw I guess.

 

From what i have seen is that it appears to happen more on crete side..being they have way more drivers than we do on shaffer side too..

 

Does which side of the company you are on really matter? I ask only because I worked for Crete for a short period of time in 2009 but was dispatched on almost as many Shaffer refrigerated loads as I was on dry van for Crete. I was based out of Mechanicsburg, which is a Shaffer terminal but I was a Crete driver, supposedly hired for OTR all 48 but rarely made it out of the northeast, only made it far west as Lincoln once and that was to deliver a tractor from a body shop where it had been poorly repaired to the Lincoln shop.

The old guy in Mechanicsburg, who had been there since before Acklie bought Shaffer, insisted we were cross trained on refers before we left orientation. Do they still do that?

My most common load was to pick up a preloaded refer from Hersey and run it up to Mass, then bounce over to a cold storage place outside Albany, NY and down to a grocery warehouse in North East, MD, deadhead to Newark, DE, then load a backhaul of empty containers back to Mechanicsburg for a local driver to deliver to a dairy. The few times I pulled a dry van was for loads of insulation out of upstate NY going down to North Carolina and for the run out to Lincoln, which ironically was my first load for Crete.

They assigned me a tractor, 2009 Prostar, to pick up from a body shop where it had just had the fiberglass roof replaced after it caught fire. Very poor repair, wasn't even lettered (they gave me temporary stickers to put on the doors) and I was expected to load in Ohio somewhere (forget where) and run out to Lincoln to swap into a new truck. I couldn't even close the windows as the burnt smell was so bad. That said, one phone call and they were cool about it, paying for hotels for the trip out.

Ironically, that Prostar, and my replacement, were both Shaffer blue, so I fit right in hauling the refer trailers.

 

No..not that i know of.. occasionally although I’ve only done it on one occasion well they had me pull a Crete trailer… But other than that, we have our own separate operations department and everything