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Thanks smokr for the good advise. I will keep it all in mind so I can get as much out of my training as possible.

 

Maybe your trainer has been to Pueblo, and knows you will sit for 24 hours waiting for an empty trailer too. It is supposed to be drop and hook, but we do not have enough trailers there, so many times you will sit for 24 hours, until they unload some more trailers. Target sucks!!!!

Good luck, and your comments about the trainers are so appropriate.

 

Any of you get to deal with the NEW policy on meat loads, since this year we have been having too many late deliveries?

Where your DM calls you after your dispatched, and asks to go over your trip plan, and can you make it on time? A little hard to answer when I am sitting at Tyson, and have no idea when I will be loaded. Then the daily QC message of are you on time?

Knee jerk reaction to try and solve a communication problem, that will not work.

Maybe if they would address the actual problem of drivers be detained at the shipper, and then still expected to make the original appointment that was set before the load was ever ready, they could solve the late deliveries. And the weather on the runs to the east coast has been a lot more difficult to deal with this year, than over the last 10.

JO alverez refuses to set appointments for produce until it has actually crossed the boarder. They were having way too many late deliveries last summer trying to predict when the product would be ready to leave. So he was smart, and Identified the actual problem, and corrected it.

The DLD was supposed to correct this problem with meat, but Stevens is afraid to enforce the repercussions for when Tyson goes past the DLD. So the DLD means nothing any more.

My rant for the night.

 

There's not a new policy that i'm aware of, but I'm sure that someone at stevens is watching tyson and other meat loads. The meat industry like others is suffering cutbacks and fewer people are processing meat.

One thing to know though is that the dld number is not some magic agreed upon number. It's the latest time a solo driver with enough hours available can make it to the receiver at an average speed of 50 MPH.

Your best bet is as soon as the dld has passed, send the running late message withoug the repower request. This way they won't bother you. If they do call you, tell them that information is at the shipper since only the shipper knows when the cows come home, they are the ones to ask.;.

 

just got hired with stevens for orenitation on the 28th do they still offer tuition remibursment

 

what kind of road test does stevens have after OTR training