Too much time on load

It is to much time for a load like that, one thing I would do when I drove OTR and received a load with to much time on it, I'd call the receiver and ask if I could possible deliver early and give them a ETA when I'd be there, most time they would take the load early

 

Take the time an shine the bright work. I always wondered why Some drivers take up two parking spots. One for the truck other to get out of truck . Lol

 

If you work at a mega you can usually get away with dropping it at a yard and having a local guy take the load. I always asked for this when I was stuck with a 3 day 500 mile load.

Once you prove yourself to your dispatcher and take a few crap loads while always mentioning you really want to pull some miles since you're away from home and all, they can usually be talked into giving those loads to the guy that only wants to run 2.5k. There are plenty of those drivers although I don't understand why anyone under 40 would want that much down time.

 

Yup, very common this time of year.

Swift and the other megas run a seasonal business. This time of the year they have more drivers then freight. So the desk jockeys pick loads with large delivery windows. This helps spread freight during the slow season as they reduce fleet size with firings for 'safety' reasons. As long as a truck is 'on a load' the planner has less work to do in finding a load for the truck. More time for office socials and face book.

"Once you prove yourself" or "how you run" crap is the biggest load of BS in the industry. While it is true some driver cannot figure out how to find their a--hole in a snow storm, most are not that dumb. The office controls the freight and therefore the productivity. They just shine you on with corn-pone philosophy of trucking.

 

Geezus, you just make crap up ... He tcalled the loads ... Swift will not sit you on a load unless you want to. It's rare that a long time frame load won't will tcalled.

 

Better too much time than not enough. Take the opportunity to relax and reset your hours.

 

Take it on to the reciever. If they balk, just tell them that if you leave, you can't come back till your 34 is done.

Just point blank tell them take it now or you are taking it back to where you picked up at, it don't make a #### to you.

Open the doors and tell them you will brake dump it in front of their docks.

Or just show up, be nice, ask if you can unload it yourself and stack the stuff in a corner.


If all the above fails, call your company and tell them where the trailer is and you are bringing the tractor back to them.

Never have had any of the above fail me.

 

Next week is spring break too, many customers might be working skeleton crews.

Also sounds like they put a solo run on a team or super solo truck. As soon as you see a load like that when you go solo send messages right away asking where to tcall it before you accept it. As soon as you accept it, they forget about you, and I have even had them set up a tcall in Lathrop so I could go home on hometime and enroute to Lathrop they send a message to deliver the next day way down in Fresno or whereever it was going and I live in Stockton. It was one of those critical hometimes too we had to spend big money on babysitters and it really screwed things up because my wife was going out of town that day.

 

I did that once at the Des Moines loves.
But with the trash cans.

XD
I was bored!!!!!


Matter of fact is was around Easter time. Freight was dead for like two weeks.

What I like to do is stand around the corner of a building and throw firecrackers at ppl.

####s hilarious I do it all the time everywhere.


But op you can ethier try and deliver early or try and get it relayed to someone going home or at a nearby drop yard (latter is the advatange of megas)

Or say screw it and actually go out and be a tourist. Rental cars 20 bucks. Big whoop.
Ubers are even cheaper.

Hell are you on tinder? Who needs lot lizards nowadays?

Heyyy baby....ever drove a semi?
I'll teach ya come on over and we can potato & chill. (If you are into red heads like I am)