The BS level of this career is unbelievable!

Last night I ran out of hours at a truck stop 40 miles from our terminal. I had to be in sleeper by 8:30pm to adjust my sleep for my new preplan. After my post trip inspection, I changed to Off Duty status for about an hour and a half, before logging sleeper berth. After sleeping for an hour, someone starts knocking on our truck, waking up both myself and my passenger. I told my passenger to keep quiet and the stranger will leave. Two minutes later, more knocking. The knocking turns aggressive and becomes a pounding. So, I decide to call 911, the police show up about 15-20min later. Meanwhile the knocking and hitting of the outside of the truck and windows stayed consistent. They also were jumping on the steps and shaking the truck.


The police caught the guy in the act. When the police flashed their lights, I spoke with them and found out that the banging was from a team driver from my company that was “sent to swap my load.”


Problem is no one spoke with me first to state this was the plan, so my passenger and I figured it was some psycho outside. This team was sitting since noon that day, but yet no one told me of this plan. After dealing with the police, I realized I had a voicemail from an after hours dispatcher from a half hour after I logged sleeper berth. They tried to let me know, but I was already asleep with my phone off. Why they were too dumb to read their computer screen properly to see that I was out of hours and in the middle of my sleeper berth 8 hours is beyond me.


They expected me to jump out of bed and go outside after only sleeping for an hour to drop my trailer and drive clear from it. I told them “no, that’s illegal. I can’t legally operate the vehicle right now.” The team driver was all fussy, saying he was just trying to do his job, so I told him I was trying to do my job too. By them sleep depriving me or causing me to have to restart my 10 hour break, then it would affect my ability to deliver my next load on time, and seriously impair my ability to do my job. So I told them off and made them wait until the end of my 10 hour break.


Also, turns out these team drivers didn’t even bring me the trailer I was supposed to get out of the swap, so I later had to drive 40 miles in the opposite direction to go pick up the load, wasting 80 miles worth of fuel.


When I finally picked up the load, the tandems were slid all the way to the back, because the load from 1500 miles away wasn’t balanced properly, and these idiot drivers were willing to make it someone else’s problem. I scaled it, and there was no way I could follow the kingpin to rear axle distance rule for the multiple states I had to drive it through.


Sliding the tandems to their proper length put the weight at almost 38,000lbs. This is a standard dry van, so no split tandems.


After dealing with these team drivers, police and after hours dispatchers, I told everyone “good night” and went back to bed. Problem is I just couldn’t sleep after all the excitement. Literally six hours went by before I fell back asleep. I got another hour of sleep before the APU A/C died for the 11th time in two months. This woke me back up, so I just decided to start my day with only 2 hours of sleep, since I’m not much of a daytime sleeper anyway. Of course, then I ran into the issues of the improperly loaded sealed load.


So, another day of life wasted. That overweight trailer was supposed to be the load to get me home, for an extremely important government appointment, but I’m not running illegal loads especially for companies that try to rudely yank me out of bed after only an hour of sleep.


So now I’m just renting a car to drive 430 miles to home.