The Millis Journey

Sofirst day out with my trainer wasn't the funnest. We d/h to keens brockway to drop our empty. Then we bobtail to some other place in atl for a 12p.m. pick up. We arrived at 11a.m. and we finally left at 5p.m. Yeh that sucked so then we had to drop that load off in jonesville sc for a 12a.m. delivery... had a preplan for nxt load so we got an empty and now we are sitting in newberry sc waiting for our 10 to b up which is in an hr. Then off to columbia for a drop and hook going to Calhoun ga.hope every one is running hard. These updates will b short and prolly some mis spelling cuz im on my phone and it sucks... so srry folks! Stay safe!

 

Well... I just deleted a very long post. Let me break it down. A weekend dispatcher overrode our weekend preplan so his driver didn't have to sit for a day waiting on a place to open Monday. Made us swap loads with him so we would have to sit and not his driver. Now I wont have a check for 3 weeks cuz I wont have my 7 days that I need before my trainer goes home for thanksgiving... I would have had 6 days if I sat all day today but... that defeats the purpose of me not waiting to leave out until after thanksgiving. I needed the money real bad man. So my trainer told me I could either sit for a day and lose my day and not get check anyways or just go home until next Monday... so im sitting at home now. There's way more to the story. But im calling mike Monday cuz this is wrong. And the dispatcher Cussed out my trainer for no reason.

 

Well we actually get paid on Mondays... and my trainer has to send in my paper work before Wednesday for me to get paid the following Monday. But yes everything else you stated is correct. But im VERY upset at this point. That dispatcher really did us wrong. Its trucking man his driver should've been the one waiting. Its not our problem his dispatcher couldn't look out for him. But we got shafted in the end. Something really needs to be done about this.

 

Thursday to Wednesday is 7 days... but they screwed us and the truck didn't move all day Sunday so I didn't get my 4 hrs drive time in for the day to count. I would have got a check next Monday but that dispatcher screwed us and now I wont get a check until like second week in december. We had a pre plan and everything was going to work out but that dispatcher took our load from us and made us drop it with his driver so we would be the ones sitting all day Sunday instead of his driver. His exact words to ed was "I either want to keep him rolling or get him home to sit for the day and he's to far from his home to get home." Basically he didn't want his driver to have 24hrs of down time he would rather us have that down time. Actually 36hrs... and we had it planned to keep moving and I get my 7 days... its hard to explain.