Trip Planning / Time Management..

They really want the load to be delivered in the shape it was when loaded, the JIT that they do they know sometimes something happens and it might be late so do not worry to much about that, concentrate on safety and it will all fall into place.

 

And here is the bad thing about worrying and fighting to make some of them schedules they have. You work and worry yourself sick, deliver the load in perfect shape on time, you are getting sick from that stress, the load is perfect, you are way sick and what you did is forgotten in seconds, Take care of your health.

 

is that the yellow tint night glasses ? i find that it is extremely useful for driving at night on a busy two lanes hwy, busy city traffic, and such but otherwise will reduce the brightness and reduce your vision. im glad that i have the clip on and clip it to my glasses, when i dont want to use it, i simply just flip it up

 

Yes, but go to a sporting goods store, them cheap glasses they sell at the stands at truck stops get scratched real easy.

 

i had to shorten you posting, because once you mentioned his 34 reset was at 3PM, then he was ready to get on with HIS JOB.

to refuse, or put up a squawk about night driving cuz "he ain't used to it", can only incite dispatch to really hammer him. it's a job, pure, plain and simple.

if he cannot handle or not willing to drive at night, then he needs to come off the road and get a daytime job.

i haven't heard of ANY company, that FROWNS on night time driving....(i think he lied to you) i never heard of such a thing, in my now OVER 40+ years in this industry

good luck to him.

but i do see him either being suspended or fired for what nearly amounts to "refusing to work", and THAT will make things difficult for him to get another job.

 

She said he is new and just really uncomfortable with it and is trying to be safe, nothing wrong with that. We all had to have our learning scares and mistakes and sounds like they are starting to work with dispatch. I find it better to work on the side of caution and learn how to do it safely and not play the super trucker right out of the gate. Some have given some good advice which takes time to set in place, trucking is a hard hard job that keeps changing so learning is a ongoing process.

 

i can recall, many jobs i had, orientation, that day, out on the road by 6 PM, either with a trainer, or on my own.

this is what headlights are for, to light up the darkened road.

 

I) I am assuming you work for Schneider. If I am wrong then much of my response is not germane.

2) When you come in for home time, and you set your NAT - that is the time you are supposed to be ready to release the brakes and go. That is the time Schneider will use. You do NOT need to report earlier. If it doesn't impact my plans, and will make the load easier I will show up an hour early, but nuts to trying starting a half day early.

3) You will be assigned many "B.A.D loads" - Best Available Driver. These loads are impossible to begin with, and Schneider does not expect miracles. They do expect for the driver to do the best they can - SAFELY AND LEGALLY - but recognize that impossible is impossible.

4) When you get an impossible dispatch, do your trip plan and send in S/L. Then also send a quick free form message with why it's impossible, then get to getting. If you are at home you can log into Compass and send a message to support shift, indicating that no call back is needed. This just an FYI message, as support shift has very few planners and by the time you've done your trip plan and alerted them, most other drivers have been assigned. Chances are that by the time the planners found someone else, that new driver is going to be just as late as you would have been.

5) If you start at 8, you'd be at the customer by 10:30, out by 12:30 with 8 hours to run (with a buffer). That would leave you with 450 odd miles to go on day 2, an easy day of driving. However once you got to the shipper and found it was going to be a 4 hour live load, push out the eta's and nat. Send a free form with what is going on. It is now on the shipper why they load is late. If that pushes delivery onto day 3, so be it. Just communicate with Schneider.

6) Please note that I have not said "call in". For this scenario you don't need an instant response, you are just communicating what is happening. Messages work better - faster for you and your dbl.

7) There is no "counting against him". If he is constantly having issues delivering loads they will bring him in to talk about trip planning theory and review why he is having trouble. They will then set him to "slow run" (dispatched off a 45 mph average). Miles will suck, but he will have plenty of time. Once he show's some skill, they will return him to "normal". It takes a lot of work to get fired from Schneider, and it certainly won't happen over a couple of missed appointment times. Unless you stopped at the casino for a few hours, or decided to route through Memphis on a Chicago to Atlanta run to "avoid the mountains"

 

Really, dark driving is the way to make the most miles when you are throttled down so low. Traffic in cities is down except for when the bars lets out and the views of the cities is spectacular.