Systems Transport

The company gets you home every Saturday. You got a new Pete upon request and you are allowed to take 2 weeks off at a time.

Your issue here isn't the company. It's your DM that's pissing you off and that's unlikely to change. I set a new record weekly gross avg of $1204 during my 2 1/2 weeks with him, but everything is a struggle with him and he took constant micromanagement and lots of hardball to make things work as well as they did.

What's your window looking like according to your trip plan?

I got about a 3 hour window on this 2000 mile run which annoys me to no end. They give us tight deadlines like this then tie our hands with E-logs with GPS tracking plugged into the ECM so you can't even spare a second. Then a 65mph truck to boot.

It's like telling a carpenter you want a house built in 4 days, but he can only use a handsaw for the construction.

No way around it sometimes though. Few flatbed shippers/receivers open on weekends.

 

If anyone can appreciate a good vent its me . I'd be careful about playing too nice though especially with your current DM. After all this is a for profit company. It only makes sense that we make a profit to. These are my #'s with your dispatcher with careful management and some hardball mixed in.

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[TD="class: xl67, width: 462, colspan: 4"]Dispatched by ____ 1-07-14/1-21-14
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[TD="class: xl69, colspan: 2"]Weekly avg gross pay
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[TD="class: xl66"] $1,204.55
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[TD="class: xl68, colspan: 2"]Avg paid miles per week
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[TD="class: xl64"]2,696.89[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl68, colspan: 2"]Pay per mile
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[TD="class: xl65"]$0.45 [/TD]
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[TD="class: xl68, colspan: 2"]Calculated Gross income
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[TD="class: xl63"] $54,385.46 [/TD]
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[TD="class: xl68, colspan: 2"]# of weeks paid
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[TD="class: xl63"]2.57[/TD]
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I'm conducting a study on my latest DM that is somewhat comparable to your method of not complaining to dispatchers. At this point I've worked with every single DM on the OTR fleet and the one I'm currently with is the most senior in the company. If i can't make it work with him I'll probably just leave at my 1yr anniversary in a couple months. Anyways my study is I am completely leaving him to his own devices. I'm asking for absolutely nothing and letting him operate however he wishes. No hardball and no management by me whatsoever. I've minimized contact between us to as little as possible to minimize my impact on the experiment. If he fails or succeeds it will be completely of his own Accord.

The results of the study thus far as shown below
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[TD="class: xl69, width: 466, colspan: 5"]______ Individual Performance Evaluation 3-26-14/Current
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[TD="class: xl72"]weekly avg gross pay[/TD]
[TD="class: xl68"] $ 869.88
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[TD="class: xl70"]Avg paid miles per week[/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]2032.00[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl70"]Pay per mile[/TD]
[TD="class: xl67"]$0.428[/TD]
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[TD="class: xl70"]Calculated Gross income[/TD]
[TD="class: xl66"] $ 39,275.23 [/TD]
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[TD="class: xl70"]# of weeks paid [/TD]
[TD="class: xl65"]3.00[/TD]
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The results are poor thus far, but I'm going to continue it until my 1yr anniversary and make decisions then.

 

Why?

Edited: got rid of long rambling pointless rant