Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

Grasias!!

 

Well, I talked to a friend who works here, and by the way it sounds, the Wylieization has started. He said that they are now enforcing the Wylie hometime policy...1 day off for every 7 out. They are insisting drivers do not spend excess time at home because they have so much freight. Which is kinda funny, the guy that told me that just spent 3 days at home last week, without wanting time off, all because they wouldn't put him on a load before they went home last Friday...and he is sitting in Spring Hill with 11 other Moore drivers and a couple Central Oregon drivers with no freight...it is starting to feel like Moore is gonna be the abused red head step child who gets all the crap leftover loads the Wylie kids didn't want to haul.

 

$486.31 (U.S.) without a sleeping berth, each direction. And this is with a 45' trailer. They charge by the length not by the weight.

 

I have decided that this is my one and only trip to Newfoundland. This customer does only crate glass, so no return racks going back to the plants. Without racks, Moore doesn't break this load down into two trips (or at least they didn't for me this trip). I have had empty trailer moves put on a seperate trip number before, not sure why they didn't on this load. But that means a 2 week 5700 mile trip will be paid once I get back to Spring Hill...if that's where I am headed. I still haven't heard where I am returning. My DM told me to sit tight at the customer until we found out where they wanted me...that was before noon yesterday and I still haven't heard... thankfully I didn't listen and told him no matter which plant I head to, I have only 1 route to follow here on the NF island, so I am headed out. It was so late when I told him this, I couldn't make the port before dark, so I pulled up short at the closest real truckstop (with almost 3 hours yet to travel) and will make a final hop to the port. On top of a crap check this week, then having to go without a check next week because there no way I can arrive before payroll cutoff...it has put a serious ''''don't give a ####" chip on my shoulder. That, along with all the no-change changes starting to happen, it's looking like Moore is turning out to be another huge mistake in my career choice. Which is sad because, until Daseke took over ownership, this was a fun place to work. Now, almost everyone but the newly hired are walking around p/o'd most of the time.

 

Going back to the mainland on a smaller ferry this time...






If ''There can be only one" then why is it plural?

 

I guess my truck grew while I was here. According to the ferry company, I came over driving a 66 foot vehicle, I am leaving in a 72 foot...price difference is $58...same truck, same trailer, same 5th wheel location.