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

I can only speak from experience however it all really depends on what type of company it is.

There are all types of variables that happen on a dispatchers end. You only know that X load needs picked up when you get back. Not why.

For two years i ran whatever dispatch threw at me. I pulled flats mainly but they’d need me to cover van work on occasion. Deliver or pickup local stuff. Until i got into oversize loads. Flash forward to now and its paid off.

My significant other changed careers and now drives truck. Here’s a shocker came on board at the company im with.

I took a 2 month hiatus to work for a different carrier and upon returning my life had shifted. We have a 10 year old at the house so with limited daycare options. I decided i had to keep working the night shift and couldn't go back to the life demands of regional. They eventually came up with a plan that catered to my needs because they wanted me to come back after the 2 month seasonal gig.

Earned pretty much a 4 day a week dedicated night relay and if theirs some odds and ends pickups i take care of those when i get back.

Hell just recently there was a driver out of hours due to the flooding in western iowa even though i was slated for a 3 day weekend i went in late Friday so that way the driver could make it to the safety meeting the next morning and not mess with his HOS/ demands for the load starting on Sunday.

You have to think of an employment contract as a mutually beneficial relationship otherwise it will end up toxic. You'll either get fired or quit.

 

I want to know what the op thinks about this.


I had a driver who was on a deticated route, this route took him from central pa to central Iowa and back. He did well on it, made good coin and with two other drivers, they kept the consigned very happy.

The company in Iowa had to shut down for some building work for three weeks, so I offered him and the other two drivers other work to keep money rolling in his pocket. It was local work, it didn't pay well like the deticated but it kept them all local and enjoy nights off and no weekend work. The other two took the work, but this driver refused, he wanted otr because of the pay and I explained to him several times this is just for three weeks and he will be back on the job, the only thing I can give him is that local work which is guaranteed work but no way would he take it.

He was so pissed off that I could not get him otr work he quit.

Now he was replaced within those three weeks, but no reason for him quitting. He new employer called me for a reference and I know he was going to make a third of what he was going to make locally.

Now my position is this, if you are working for me, you are there to service the customer first. If you don't like the work but the need is there, you need to do your job and be patient.