Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Yeah, though probably a wash withheld extra distance taking the toll road. You're also assuming there's a human doing the routing and not just a computer looking at point a to b. That's just what we get paid for, they don't care what actual route we take as long as it's not ridiculous and can make the fuel stops.

 

No this is being done as an attempt to punish me.

Been under the weather for last 3 or 4 days. Stomach bug or something.

Picked up a load friday in Boise going to cheyenne for 24h drop. Took a light work day on Friday to work this bug out. Felt pretty good and drove from Boise to Rawlins on Saturday. They gave me a ld offer Saturday morning going from Greeley to northern michigan. which I thought I could do ok. P/u Sunday morning 0500 after Cheyenne drop and dlv 1136 miles on Tuesday 1700.

I park at Rawlins and whatever I had just roared to life. I was up and down all during my 10h break. Got no sleep. Decided, with no sleep, wasn't gonna drop, head to Greeley, do a live load and try to get 300 miles on no sleep, feeling like crap.

Notified dispatch at 2200 that the Greeley pickup wasn't gonna happen. They took me off it and said no problem, feel better soon. I get back to the bunk and get a few good hours of sleep but not great.

At 0730, I get a ld offer for p/u at a different customer in Greeley. Picks up 0800 on Monday and dlvs near Cincinnati at 1400 on Wednesday. 1236 miles. This works perfect as I'm still not feeling my best today. I accepted the ld offer. They dispatch me then 20m later, I'm taken off it and ORDERED to pick the 1st Greeley load even though it's already past the appt time. I tell them, no way that's going to happen as I'm not feeling well. Just put me back on the 1200 mile run for Monday pickup as planned due to my feeling like crap.

Captain ####### in dispatch sends me "fine, we'll take you off the 1100 mile run, here's a 400 mile run with 3 days on it."

Of course, I refuse it. Unproductive

At this point,, I'm feeling marginally better,, not 100% but good enough to finish the Cheyenne ld. I pretrip the truck and fuel and finish the last 150 miles to cheyenne, drop and go park at the Cheyenne terminal.

2h go by with no comms from dispatch. I ask why I'm not on the Cincinnati load 3 times. I get no answer. Then they ask me why I haven't accepted the 400 mile run.. told them flat out. I'm not accepting a 400 mile run when a 1200 mile run was offered and accepted and dispatched and then taken away from me with no reason then dispatch tries to force me to do a hard tight run while I'm sick? Not gonna happen. Can't force me to drive while sick

Dispatch didn't like that.

I asked them one more time why wasn't I dispatched on the ld I accepted then added "this and all further communications on the matter are being documented"

About 30m later. I get another ld offer. Greeley to Missouri. 890 miles. I m in middle of accepting and the ld offer is pulled and replaced with the 1700 mile 2 drop offer with no dlv times, just dates.

Accepted that offer.

Get dispatched and find that little "slap in the face" good miles but punishment by 450 miles of local roads paralleling the toll road.

We got some seriously childish punk #####es in our weekend crew anymore.

 

Wow. There are few things worse than being out on the road sick like that with a stomach ailment, and then having to put up with that kinda stuff on top of it really is a bummer.

 

Those loads with dates but no times can bite you hard too. Been there. They tend to be too early to be comfortable or too late.

 

Sad thing is, prior to 2017 and Mr. Acklies passing this WOULDNT have happened. When he passed, his SIL took over and within 90 days, almost ALL the office personnel either quit, retired or "were retired" Those that were on his best buddy list got moved to to upper mgmt and a bunch of corporate shill/drones were brought in to replace everyone else.

It's these corporate know nothing sociopath corporate schills that are the problem. They don't know how to associate or empathize with anyone not within 3 feet of them. To them, us drivers are nothing but a problem set on a computer screen. I know most major companies are like that but they aren't "family" or "privately-owned" hence understably (not acceptably) sociopathic in their practices. It's just frustrating to watch the company get disgustingly trashy by copying other "successful" companies.

 

It didn't happen all that much on the Shaffer side until recently. It's only been in the last few years that Shaffer has begun its SERIOUS downward slide. I think that even after Mr. Acklie retired, he still had a grip on T's neck and did right til the end. It's only AFTER he passed that the ####tyness of the creffer family started getting worse like a #### ball rolling downhill.

 

*in his best Mr. Roger's voice*
Can you say Nepotism?
(Big creepy smile)
I knew you could!

 

I almost sent SSB a message a couple days ago to see if he needed a ride to Florida on my Clackamas, Oregon to Boca Raton, FL multi-stopper. I was going to pass through Cheyenne about 03:00 and decided it best not to interrupt his beauty sleep.

Anyhow, turns out, that I ended up having to limp into the Freightliner shop in Mt Vernon, Illinois this morning.