Stevens Transport aviary

Aardvark, thanks for your help the other night. I really appreciated it.
Now go enjoy your time off.

 

God bless the roach coach lady and her delicious home style sandwiches at affordable prices but 8.50 for a pack of smokes makes TA look like good will

 

Try a "big burrito"... Those are good! The Thursday BBQ is really good to and you may even recognize the BBQ guy (Brett) from the WalMart commercials on TV.

 

The thing I really enjoy about the Northeast is when you are backed into the dock, and your tractor is in the street
Hello Newark NJ, please don't hit me.

 

What's an "emergency repower"? Is it one that they actually pay you for, seeing as it had only5 miles on it?

I've been screwed twice doing "Favor-Repowers". You know those kind."XXXX please call me, we need your help on a repower". Then they lie about how many miles are left and how many drops. The driver can make OTD just fine but he's an Alliance driver, so he's a Trucker celebrity and thinks he's entitled to someone elses' load after he burns his down.

We all know that's what it is half the time, that's why I don't do repowers unless my load will be late. I've spoken with many l/o
s who have admitted that this is what they do. This is what they are TOLD to do. Go out and take food off of others driver's tables. Feel free...if they're dumb enough to do the repower. You take their 110 mile load and they take your freshly cleaned trailer to go pick up a 1800 mile load with fresh 14 they just got from sitting there.

If they're feeling really smooth, they'll have YOU go pick up the load for them before you repower it, so they can just hook up and roll.

Keep in mind, these are only the 5% of Alliance drivers that don't get screwed over.

Won't do them anymore. Got lied to twice, so I'm done.

 

I have done repowers with company drivers also. Anymore I usually refuse, but I did one last week, I was on a Hershey Drop and hook to Edwardsville and parked in Effingham. I got a call asking me to repower a produce load that delivered in Lebanon IL, same miles and it is his last drop. i said sure, delivered it, one skid, 1200lbs, then got the next dispatch and rollled. No harm, No.foul. The other driver was company and out of hours.

I'll listen to a repower request, and if it makes sense, I'll do it. If it does not, I won't.

 

Any time Emu. I owe ya one.

 

So far I have been well taken care of on repowers, They have done what they said they would do and the miles have always been pretty darn close. I also look at it this way, not every time will it happen, but you get your truck number out there as someone that is a go to guy or gal and even if it comes up a few shorter miles wise, its whats on the back end that counts. I try to go by the addage that what goes around comes around and hopefully one day when I might need a favor I might be able to call one in if its workable. Its kind of banking for a rainy day type thing. I have really mellowed out since going L/O I take the good with the bad and am not stressing as much as I used to. A few hours extra netted me some extra cash in my pocket Ya take what you can get. Sounds like you are company side and I dont wanna get into this company vs OO debate but from what I see miles/loads etc its pretty fairly balanced out. Repower is always the drivers choice unless OTD is jeapordized. I ask all the important stuff prior to telling them on the phone yeah ill take it. If the QC comes up way off the figure, one still has the option calling in to get either the miles adjusted if its that far out of whack or saying thanks but no thanks. Remember the company will always do whats in the best interest of the company financial and comittment wise. Sometimes it works in the drivers favor others not. But you can always count on a few good people like emulsified and several others in dispatch to take care of you down the road or on the back end of the load.

 

Ive won on some and lost on others. Ive learned to ask lots of questions and get all the details before accepting.

Sitting in Iowa after a doing a repower to keep rolling only to get stuck with a 17th DLD. Did I mention that we got here last night?

There goes my week, pfft. Maybe load will be done early and we can run the 1000 miles to Laredo and drop there early? And get 2 more runs before the DLD hits on this one? Hmmm...

Might be hopes of saving the week after all!

 

Only question you should be asking the voice on the other end of the phone when listening to a repower request: "May I please have the other driver's name and telephone number?". Then explain to them that you will need about 5 minutes to call the other driver and determine if you will be able to help out.

If the voice on the other end of the phone says something like "Well I don't have 5 minutes to wait I need an answer now" you politely say "I am not interested in taking your repower. But hopefully I can help you on the future."

If they give you the other driver's name and number, call them up and get the details from them.

If you're the first driver to the repower location, don't disconnect so you're ready to go when the other driver arrives. Stay connected to your current load until the other driver arrives, you get their bills in hand, and you're able to verify that what that driver told you is true. If anything doesn't add up and you were told a low, just hop back in your truck and continue on with your load.

People that feel the need to lie to drivers to get the to accept a repower are the bottom of the barrel on my book. And I don't feel one ioda of guilt about doing what I described above because I was lied to. I am helping you out with a late load. My current load is in time and will be delivered safely and legally so I have no problem keeping it.

And I also have no problem helping out on a repower...even if it means I give up a few miles...as long as I'm told up front what I'm accepting. I have taken quite a few repowers that most drivers would turn down because I knew I would be taken care of afterwards. 99.9% of the time I was dispatched on a great load and made up what I gave up on the repower.

So please don't give up completely on the prospect of helping in a repower situation. Once you get a method down to where you're not getting burned all the time it can be a win/win.

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