Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Yeah, that probably would have been a wiser move.

 

I’ve got a day codriver who claims to be a “pastor” who leaves trash in the truck, doesn’t refuel or clean the windows and who breaks #### on the regular without saying a word about it. If you don’t live out the “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you” when no one is looking then you are just a fraud and doing Christian cosplay IMO.

 

Next run is a McDonalds load. I'm (not) Lovin it!

 

Opit idle nazis... got a peoplenet msg to call home terminal immediately... so apparently if you idle too much you now have to do training to improve your bad habits that idle our trucks... company is going to be doing phone one on one training with people that idle too much and was told and asked if your charging too many things while opti idle is on... umm yea I charge my smartphone... it's getting crazy over here at crete...

 

If companies who refuse to install apu’s then ##### about idle times don’t give a #### about drivers.

Unfortunately it might start trending that way here at SPD. We are currently being rolled under Road Master Group companies. Our new maintenance program is awesome! We went from 30k oil changes and 10k mile lubes to 30-50k mile oil changes with a full dot inspection and no lubes in between. That will save them roughly $1500-2000 on lubes in the lifetime of the truck. The problem is we don’t run sealed drive lines like some companies. I see a lot of u joints, king pins, and slack adjusters in their future.

 

Downgraded to Romper Room. Sad.

 

I don't think I mentioned this. But I met a Leonard's driver at the Flying J in Ogden. He had just left Shaffer and was waiting a couple hours to pick up his first load for Leonard's in Ogden going to Texas.

He signed up for the Idaho dedicated runs to Texas where they get their 3,000+ miles out and back and reset in Caldwell, Idaho. They usually pick up most of their loads off the Caldwell yard and often drop at the Caldwell yard. We've got PNW regional drivers that do most of the pickup and delivery in the PNW and drop and pickup at Caldwell.

That veteran driver said he was tired of the short and inconsistent miles at Shaffer. He had worked for Mr Holman in the past.