You want me to do WHAT?!?!?

You sir/ma'am, could not be more correct. It is complete junk, the tandems constantly shift back & forth whenever I'm backing & even touch the brakes. It's a real joy to slide into tight spots.

If it makes ya feel any better, I pull for a local outfit and NEVER take any of their junk on the big road...always back roads...no excuse, I know, but I liked the idea of being home every night as a newbie (just under a year now).

I'm now thinking it would be nice to actually make some money & maybe drive some equipment that isn't complete junk.

Already begun, I've been struggling to even come close to 40 hrs lately, this last week was the worst to date, I have literally had better weeks delivering pizza.

I think you're right about him starving me out and I have been looking, too bad USXpress seems to have fallen through...ohh well, they're a BFI anyway.

I guess I should start throwing some serious applications around.



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Update:

Well well well, whaddya know? I was sooo right, once the mechanic finally got the right Side pins to disengage, we slid the tandems back & found the carriage was indeed tweaked, might have something to do with all the broken welds, but what do I know? I'm just a stupid driver.

I guess that throws the probably safe idea right out the window, huh?

I wonder if the boss man will even acknowledge the fact that he was wrong, maybe even apologize...I won't hold my breath.

Thanks for the feedback guys & gals, I didn't think I was being a big baby, but it's nice to hear it from my peers as well.


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I would hope hauling coils would pay better than delivering pizza!

...funny side note, I applied to a pizza joint recently so I could put some extra scratch in ma pocket & they told me I didn't have enough recent, delivery experience!

I said "I beg to differ, I deliver anywhere from 40,000 to 120,000 pounds of steel a day, I think I can handle a few pizzas." He says: " that's not relevant to pizza delivery"...You little sunuva...whatever, I tucked my tail between my legs & left. My pizzas had better be perfect and on time from now on, that's all I have to say about that.

As for hauling coils locally, I don't think I have enough experience to land a gig like that yet, although I did haul coils OTR for 3 months, then landed this local gig 7 months ago on the premise that I could clear 35-40k (with bonuses) my first year. I have yet to see a bonus (not one driver has), even though I have not one service failure, have never missed a day or been late and Ido my job cheerily & get along well with even the most difficult customers (not even so much as a complaint).

As of this week, I have cleared just over 13k...WTF?

Boss man has never talked to me like that before, some of the other guys yes, but me never.

At any rate, I am on the hunt, I have put in my application with my top choice companies (Heyl, Cheeseman and Trimac). We'll see if that pans out, if not I'll start applying to some less desirable companies.

I have clean MVR, DAC and CVSR reports, good work history and have never failed a drug or alcohol test. The only negative thing is a minor misdemeanor from 8 years ago, so it shouldn't be too hard to find employment, I just don't like change and don't want to be perceived as a job-hopper but I have got to get away from this train wreck of a company.

I wish that was an option but we are a small outfit with only 11 drivers & boss man likes to micro-manage. So everything, and I mean everything, goes through him. He calls each of us at least three times a day to see where we are & gets an attitude if we don't answer right away...never mind that we're piloting an 80,000 pound beast, better answer that phone.



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