Worrying about having to slow down in winter

what i always did was call dispatch and inform them the weather is bad, and i am trying my best, and i might be late. always communicate with your company. many times my dispatcher would say, "stay safe, be careful".....some times, i would call to say it's so bad, i have to pull over and stop, and i never got any flack from the company. your dispatcher will in most instances call the customer, maybe to also change the delivery day and time.

then you drive at the speed YOU FEEL comfortable with. i will reduce my speed to as slow as 35 mph's, stay in the RIGHT lane,and NEVER got my chops busted from other drivers, as they can always pass me if they are so much a hurry. in fact, you would be surprised at the "convoy" that happens in that right lane in bad weather.

you will do fine, but frankly, you haven't even started school yet, have you.....?????? by the time you do start Lupe....?? it'll be spring time again....

 

Your LIFE and the LIVES of others are the most important part of the TRIP , weather conditions play a big part in it and driving to suit conditions is the thing tyo do.

 

I loaded in a blizzard and told dispatch that the load could not be delivered on time.

Dispatch said I should not have agreed to it. I told them I had not.

Load failure issued to me on the delivery.

 

sorry to hear that....i hadn't had that problem myself. after all, they sent you there...???

 

Even called them after rolling to load. 15 miles took 2 hours. Loaded and to go from Minneapolis to Hudson WI to 3 hours.

Night dispatch said that the load had to be there. Weather is not a reason.

Used my entire 14 hour day and only 80 miles driven for the day.

 

Sounds like something similar when I was in CT with a load of steel. The weather was calling for 10" of that great white stuff that night and my delivery was for 8am the next morning. I stopped early that day for my ten hours and I picked back up at 11pm to go 80 miles that night. The storm was just kicking in. Glad I planned it right. I woke up the next morning, snowing like a banshee and only two trucks of ten made it. I was one of them.

I sent in my empty macro, only for them to get me loaded 50 miles down the road. I called them and flat out refused to do it. The snowstorm had taken it's toll on the roads and traffic. It maybe their truck but it's my CDL that's on the line.

 

It was one of the last loads with that outfit.

 

Ferletto Steel by some chance....??? (Bridgeport area)

 

You drive the conditions and never overestimate your abilities. I have never had a service failure. That's because I have always kept the company informed of what was going on. That's the key. Do your best at all times of year and establish a track record.

If you are running for a company that gives no exception for poor conditions and road closures, find a different company. There is no load worth your or somebody else's life. Or, as Prime's Don Lacy likes to say, "There is no freight so hot that it can't cool off in a ditch somewhere."

Be careful out there.