Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

Yeah we have new dispatchers that call you after 2 weeks. My old dispatcher who quit never bothered about the truck wash as long as you got it done once a month. I don't get paid a single cent to wash their truck so I only do it if I happen to pass one, on my route, on the weekend when there is no line. If there's a line I don't stop.

The new dispatcher told me that now they don't pay for the miles going home, any of them, even though its really part of the deadhead going somewhere like Laurinburg or Church Hill after home time, and tried telling me that has always been the policy, yet the 5 years of weekly paychecks on my phone prove otherwise. But they spend 100 dollars a month washing a truck that is instantly dirty 5 minutes after leaving the truck wash, and I only go home 4-5 times a year.

I guess the day is coming...

 

It used to be that before hometime I'd get a load to Ohio, NJ, etc, then get sent home empty on a DH back to Laurinburg but not paid for going home, just the DH back to Laurinburg, which makes sense because I'm going to get sent back there anyway. I live in between so I don't expect to get paid for the miles home, just for the DH back to where I will always be sent after going home anyway.

Now I might get a DH from Maine or Alabama 500+ miles back home, totally unpaid, then paid for the short 100 miles from home to Laurinburg. So they've turned it into a free DH for the company but explain to me that it was always supposed to be that way and nothing has changed. I could see their point if I was going home every weekend or 3 but I stay out for months and get sent from Florida to California, Maine to Utah, etc because they know I'm not going home. Most drivers don't stay out and don't leave their region for long because they are going to be going back home and sending them home every 2-3 weeks is probably expensive.

 

The loaders in Church Hill wanted me to drop my trailer so they could close the door last month when I was delivering them a load from Spring Hill and it was 50 degrees outside and they had that giant space heater going full blast right next to the trailer.

Except they sat right there and watched me untarp and unstrap everything before telling me to move the truck outside as if I should have known that it was too cold to do their jobs.

When I told them that I had to restrap everything before moving the truck (they don't know that?) they just unloaded it with the doors open. As if they were going to freeze to death. ####ing idiots.

 

Yeah it sounds like they loaded all of the stoces about a foot or more too far to the front since you are still under gross weight but just barely.

Their double drops are way heavier than ours though. We can get Max 45500 on ours but then gross weight is like 78000 and once I picked up 46500 and was still OK.