Stevens Transport - Dallas, Tx.

I honetly have never felt "punished" by the office folks. Sometimes the freight just isn't there. You need to be a "can do" driver and always be part of a solution. Keep in mind also that in Alliance, miles is no the only way to make money. For a three stop load in New York, you've hit the jackpot. First, for two of those stops, there's a $35 stop pay plus NY City pay if you're dropping in The city or the boroughs which is $75. You may with some convincing get $75 per stop, plus the $35 if you're persuasive enough. Just write it on your trip sheet before you scan it.

As for getting stuck at the ontario TA in California, save the receipt for parking and scan it with your trip. On your sheet, there is a parking category where you will be reimbursed.

 

I've been told Alliance doesn't reimburse parking fees. Besides, I've spent enough for idleaire not to pay parking.

I think Stevens SHOULD reimburse idleaire at least in states which don't allow idling though.

 

wgcarver, It is a one time payment of $75 for crossing the GW bRidge to make a deliver in the burroughs. And $35 per additional stop. The problem was, I did NOT have the hours to do it legally, and I will not falsify my log book to satisfy a desk jockey that does not know how to schedule multistop loads.

Talked with the driver that did do the 3 drops in NYC. Took him 2 days, total miles paid, 105, actual miles drove, 212. $75 dollars, and $70 dollars. In those same 2 days, I drove 1180 paid miles. NYC loads are not a jackpot, unless they are scheduled correctly, so that I can get in and out, before and after the grid lock traffic happens. An 8am appt for manhattan and an 11 am appt for long island is plain stupid.

Alliance drivers are NOT reimbursed for parking, for Idleair, no matter what we right down on the sheet we scan in. We have to pay all of our expenses out of our own pockets.

Stanko, I sure hope that that was not counted as a load refusal when you were waiting for your reset to finish. If you have read your contract, when you refuse a load, you will not be paid the deadhead miles to the next load, and I would bet that is what Stevens is doing, since your deadhead is so far. There is freight in the LA area, just you pissed off produce, and are now being punished. Produce and meat do not like being told no I can not do that, and here is the reason. They will come up with a way to show that you can do it, instead of working with the driver, they want us to be robots for them.

I think Stevens should stop charging Alliance drivers $50 per week more for an APU, now that they are not an option, but are on all newer trucks.

Yes I honestly feel that at times they try and punish a driver by making them set, or by giving them the crap load, with too much time on it. Sometimes that is the only load in the area, but not that often.

Talked with some of the veteran drivers, and they have told me that yes, when I will not be pushed, that I will suffer for a few days, until the next driver comes along that won't be pushed. And a driver that complaigns constantly, will get to set in the meat patch for days, or pick up produce, only to be repowered after a few hundred miles.

I have had a ruff week, but have got my miles, worked my DM to death, and have a load for the weekend, so I don't have to deal with the weekend crew. I deliver on Tuesday morning 0700, 1200 miles away.

 

I surely hope so too. I'm calling my DM first thing monday morning.
I did read my contract but this I don't remember.

 

All three drops were in NYC though, not different cities?

 

Addendum 2 current payment schedule

I (a) ... Exception, no compensation will be made for empty dispatched miles to the next loading point if (1) YOU were late in delivering the previous shipment which WE, in good faith, determined was without good cause or (2) YOU declined one load tendered to YOU prior to the load accepted.

One of those things they really do not tell us about. We may turn down a load, but we pay for it.

 

Hunts point 5am appt, An 8am appt for manhattan and an 11 am appt for long island is plain stupid. The long island receiver stops receiving at 1pm, and the other driver had to wait until 7am the next day to get unloaded.

 

Lea: They didn't mark it as refused ld. Lucky me.

 

If you could not legally deliver it, the load will never show as refused.

 

wgcarver, it had nothing to do with delivery it had to do with Stanko wanting to complete his 34 hour reset, and not take that load.

Stanko I am glad they did not count it as a refusal. Did they send the load to you on the QC or just call and ask if you could do the load? Just the phone will not count as a refusal, once set on the QC is a different story.

wgcarver, Stevens could care less if any driver can make the delivery on time, they are looking to get the load picked up, and they also think they can save it by repowering the load down the road. So refusing a load assignment that you can not deliver is considered a refusal, and can cost the alliance driver the dead head pay on the next load. I know from personal experience!!!!!

wgcarver, i do not know if you are just misinformed, or talking as a company driver.