Your company throw local work on you when you get back from a run?

Sometimes, but not very often. Usually its across town to a Uline to pick up some supplies I need before I can leave again anyway. I do not complain about it. Usually when I do favors a good run will all of the sudden come my way.

 

When I did loc add l for $18 strait time, 70+ hour weeks were not uncommon.

Just always enjoyed working.

If I wouldn't have had Dad to take care of, probably just would have moved into a 5th wheel at the yard.

 

Lets look at this issue from another perspective. Said load planner needs to get a load picked up before a business closes. The local drivers are otherwise tied up and the driver assigned won't get back in time to pick the load up. I know for a fact during my career I benefited greatly by having a load sitting there waiting for me, OR was able to drop one off. Just about every time I got home I was asked to go pick up or drop off a local load. It's part of the job sometime. If you don't have the hours or are so tired you can't then communicate this to the company. Drivers that choose to otherwise get snarky with a load planner might think they are getting something over on that planner by refusing to do this only to discover all they really did was get on said load planners crap list. Get on this list with most carriers and it will be you coming in here complaining about your lack of miles. Drivers are always wanting "favors" done for them, but forget that these things work both ways! I don't know the full truth here and to be honest don't give a dang. I'm just saying sometime a driver has to eat some rotten fruit to better appreciate the good stuff!

 

dispatch is like that emotional black hole of a girlfriend we all had at one point

Never satisfied (and god forbid you tell them no)

seriously. all dispatch at all new companies will work you to death, you have to learn to say no.

And any time they need a favor?????? yeah, make sure you get in writing, what the return is for that favor.

 

I dont believe in this , i just dont feel like being taken advantage of by the dispatchers, but thats just my opinion, if ive been on the road for 3 months and im at the yard getting my stuff together or if im on hometime that is not the time to ask me to do some local bs, i dont let them dispatchers walk over me and take advantage, u let them do that #### to u one time and next thign u know everytime u get back to the yard ur now their local delivery boy, dispatchers can be leeches like that , i dont let them suck my blood, but that is just my opinion , i have never been taken miles away from me because of that because i bust my ### and do my job , but im not working when im on my time off, i used to be like that with other jobs and i got nothing but taken advantage of , i dont put up with it no more, to each their own

 

Honestly if it’s once every once in awhile kind of thing I’d be okay with it especially if it’s to wait for a good miles load coming up. But if they’re using me to do local LA loads to try to cheap out on a local driver then heck no.

 

I'm not physically up to getting deep into this subject. Primarily for 2 reasons. First we are not seeing both sides and last I learned a long time ago the only substance harder than a diamond is a truck drivers head. Some of you based on your comments I would not want working for me. Not because I am a slave driver or wanting free local work. I would not want you working for me because I can't count on you in an emergency! I'm done with this garbage!