Written up for refusing to drive tired

Exactly.
The OP took on a job he wasn’t suited for..
OP handled it completely wrong since his main reason for shutting down was “Probably” didn’t have the hours to complete the next run. Should have called dispatch and asked what they recommend him do if short on hours.

JB Hunt wouldn’t for one second expected him to violate his log..or drive tired.

Just another inexperienced driver sniveling about his shortcomings and wanting to blame the carrier.

 

OH Look, my stalker is trying to bait me into his silliness!

Still butt-hurt over a previous thread I suspect

 

For cryin' out loud. Sometimes ya'll make it sound like it's a freekin brain transplant or something.
Being tardy with a 53 foot trailer delivering to a 53 gazillion square foot warehouse is not the end of the world.
LTL can be a different story, but van load stuff is completely inconsequential.

 

It very much is an issue with jit loads. Just because it's a full truck load doesn't mean it's not time critical.
Look at plants that receive components that immediately go to the production line.

 

Local log hauling..
You accidentally drank decaf coffee this morning?

 

The JIT phenomenon is ridiculous. Lets run a multi billion dollar business but be too cheap to have any parts/material storage on site, just make it the truckers responsibility to get it there maxing clocks out with 2 hours to spare, blame him if we have to shut down.

If something is truely "critical" you should be planning better. What happened to "a failure to plan on your part doesnt make it an emergency for me?" Do the people live with an empty refrigerator at home? Probably not.

 

No no the planning better part does not apply to warehouse supply chain specialists. Only truck drivers. Remember #### only rolls downhill not the other way around.

 

“TIRED but got it done“
You refused their next demands before committing to it as you should have.

My reply to the OP was only to advise quitting the nanny company and find a job better suited for him. No sense in playing silly games with JB.
He took a on a job that he couldn’t physically handle. Personally I’d have run the load and just taken a Power Nap when my eyelids got heavy. That said, in no way did I advise the op to run tired..He’s relatively new and inexperienced and didn’t communicate properly with JB.

Just replying to you because I suspect that you had taken my reply not as I intended it.

Safe travels, brother!

 

When I was in LTL, I had an angry customer call me all PO'd that his 55 gallon drum of peroxide was going to be a day late and shut down his entire chicken processing plant.
I was thinking, "dude, if my entire plant depends on a 55 gallon drum of peroxide, I'd probably keep more than 1."
People are idiots

 

Exactly. Everyone these days complaining about "supply chain issues" when its just incompetence.

I was working at a place doing plastic extrusion. Their "supply chain issues" were that they would only order 2 weeks worth of raw pellets at a time when the producer was only running that product once a month. Theyd come close to running out then try to order more. Producer didnt keep stock, they produced enough to fill the orders before switching to another product. The "logistics" person told me about this, "then why dont you order a month at a time?" The next month they started getting 2 truckloads instead just the 1. No more supply chain issue, was that really that hard?