Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Folks with multiple years of experience should be able to understand that

 

Miles up overall or miles up per driver? Miles up overall could mean more trucks on the road and less parked in the yard.

The 10 years I was a company driver pulling flatbed I’d get between 105k and 115k miles a year like clockwork depending on how much time I took off. Had weekends at the house. At the job I have now I’ve put 41k on the truck I got brand new on May 15. Different strokes for different folks.

 

Tomorrow's Tuesday... i think you'll be ok

 

I had just over 10k miles for September, but took a week off

 

For a guy that is willing and wants to stay out for months at a time 9-10k miles a month is not very productive in my mind.

 

Well looking at this:

That tells me they're throttling Snackbar's miles if other drivers are taking a week off but getting the same amount of miles as Snackbar gets when he stays out 2 months (or however long he usually stays out for).

I don't think they're specifically throttling JUST Snackbar's miles though. It's probably a company procedure to get everyone to the quarterly bonus, which means getting everyone to their 10,000 miles per month (or something like that I don't know the specific miles required to achieve bonus).

So when Snackbar runs hard the first half of the month and gets 7,000 miles for the first 15 days of the month, dispatch throttles his miles for the last half of the month because they know he's not going home. So they'll give him the short runs which are probably more profitable for the company and give the long miles to the drivers who aren't as close to the bonus as Snackbar is. Dispatch doesn't care if Snackbar only runs 350 miles a day on average, they're not paying him extra to sit on loads for long periods of time. It doesn't cost them anything for Snackbar to be a free babysitter and security guard for their freight.

That's my guess as to how it all works there, I could be wrong though. But it's clear to me that Snackbar's miles always get throttled, this happens to him every quarter without fail despite him never going home. It seems to be Crete's business model.

I hope you get the job at that company you're looking at Snackbar, you deserve a good home.

 

You are correct. Years ago, I average 2500 miles a week, in a daycab, pulling a flatbed. They were some long days, but home every one of them.