Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services

I personally stay out 4-6 weeks. Some drivers go home every month for regular hometime, and pass thru the house occasionally thru the month. They only hire drivers that live within their regular freight lanes so hometime isn't an issue. They pretty much run everywhere except the extreme west coast.

They pay detention after 3 hours, $50 holiday pay after 90 days, $100 layover after 24 hours and on the occasion that you have to live load, they pay you a $30 load fee. Short haul pay is $150 for loads under 200 miles (plus $.55/mile for the empty miles to return to the plant). Loads between 200-300 miles pay $200 (plus the $.55/mile for empty miles back to the plant)

The empty miles are paid different here. You are paid for the empty miles you run after delivery instead of before. And...are paid before you run them. Deliver the afternoon of payroll cutoff, and you are paid for the load and return miles even if it will be days later before you get to the plant.

 

Thankfully we don't do things like Maverick does with their tarps and A-frames. The way this company's equipment is set up, the tarps are mounted to the trailer so, you are out of harms way when you are pulling them out of the way. The real danger comes when you are unstrapping. If it's broke, it still has to come off and you have to stand in front of the glass to release the straps and remove hardware.

Six months for what, me getting hurt or #####ing? If it's the latter, don't count on it. I haven't had this positive of an attitude and outlook about a company and my future for decades.

As for the danger, as @drvrtech77 pointed out, you have to work around the glass to unsecure it...if it's broke (and everyone who hauls glass will have some breakage at some point), you still have to get it unloaded, and to do that you have to unsecure it, which means you have to put yourself next to the broken load to release it. Plus, every edge of the glass is razor sharp. The advice from the experienced drivers I have spoken to is "you're gonna get cut, it's not an 'if' but a 'when', keep some of those small tubes of superglue with you. It's cheaper than a container of 'newskin' and works just as good". One of my unloads in PA doesn't use gloves because he likes to go by feel when picking up the glass off the trailer. He was 1/2 thru unloading me when he bumped his knuckle on an edge...he dropped the remote for the crane and quickly trotted to the 1st aid kit. He had sliced about 3" of his knuckle, from just a bump...and he has been working around glass 30 years... He said the same thing, cuts are gonna happen, even when you have your safety gear on. When that customer I mentioned dropped that pack of glass, if a driver had been near it, they could have been seriously hurt or killed.

 

When I was a Creten, we would haul automotive glass from the PPG plant in Mercer PA. Fortunately we weren't on hot loads that went directly to the plant, but they still didn't give us a lot of extra time on the load. Thankfully, Moore doesn't do automotive, only glass for buildings, so the schedules, many times, are the more laid back fcfs deliveries. I've heard stories about how much companies get charged for late automotive glass loads. With todays traffic and temperamental epa approved trucks, it would make one think twice about contracting such loads.