When I read your posts all I can think about is all the wasted time! Breakdowns, relays, swapping trailers and equipment, 2 days to deliver? Holy crap! Get with a real flat bed company. Percentage pay, keep the same trailer, home every weekend. Everyone I know makes 1000 a week give or take without anywhere near the crap you go through. TMC, Maverick, Grayson Mitchell, what about Tennesee Steel Haulers? I dont know anything about them but anything is better than what you're doing. You say you cant afford to quit? You cant afford to stay!

 

Can't remember how much experience you have Nova but Mitchell needs age 25 with 2 years experience(doesn't say it has to be OTR) with a good driving record. They also seem to only hire along the eastern seaboard, mainly the mid-Atlantic states. Only in special cases do they hire outside of their area. Can try them if you want and see what they have. Their site looks like it might be a little out of date.

 

Novacain, carbon monoxide is odorless, and diesels give of nitrious inhibiters that are odorless, they also are not detectable by blue lips and finger tips.
At your rate of neglect and lack of understanding safety, your going to end up dead or killing some one.
You need to go back to school and do it over and this time take it seriously.
I don't want to insult you but workers like you are the reason wages are kept low. Look at how low an amount of wages you are willing to work for.
People who do this contribute to keeping wages lower, as long as companies can get suckers like you, they will keep trying.
If companies couldn't get drivers who work for so little they would pay more to start out.
Do us all a favor and change careers to some thing else or not drive for any one unless you can get at least a k a week.

I guess if all else you are one good example of what not to do.
Seriously, rethink your approach and start carring about your self and others.
May god have mercy on your soul because truck companies don't.

 

Damn dude...harsh!

 

I didn't mean to be so harsh, sorry Novacaine.
The reason I said what I said is because I DO care about her.
Sounds like what she is saying she is headed for disaster and that is always good to avoid.

 

Find a new company Novacane. No company is perfect but this is ridiculas.

 

Aren't you severely limiting yourself by only driving during the day and not after 6 pm? It's certainly none of my business at to why but I would think that if a longer run is available, someone who can drive anytime would have first dibs on that run as well as better equipment. I'm probably way wrong but just wondering.

 

Tuffy, the load I think you talking about was a beacon load? Those are oversized, overweight loads and they are only allowed to run during daylight hours. So, it's possible she only ran 7 hours that day, sunset hits they are suppose to be off the road.

 

Whoops, my bad. I was thinking the daylight hours were prior to the beacon loads. Thanks for pointing that out. Sorry for the mistake.

 

Gee... Novacane. I wouldn't know WHERE to start to catch up to all of this. I've been reading, but I can't find the time to answer every problem you're having. You just can't fight City Hall, girl.

I agree with just about everyone else here. Your 'equipment' issues are bordering on being fatal. I read your posts with a certain "apprehension" that they would end, suddenly.... because you woke up dead! Exphixiated! (is that how that's spelled? :lol: )

IF you are logging all this "crap" time... repairs, relays and otherwise waiting for crap from the office... You have no hours left for driving. You decry these short hauls, but if you made them... one right after the other... without all the downtime for relay and maintenance... let alone swapping equipment and doing "inventory"; you'd be getting the same miles as someone like me who drives 700 miles, sleeps 10, and gets up and drives another 700 miles.

If my truck breaks... and it has, I call dispatch/breakdown and they get it fixed - pronto. Of course, we don't have a bunch of "terminals" that we have to be routed through to get things done. The company pays the money to keep the trucks rolling and the freight delivered. People on here cry about fuel mileage savings.... B.S. The company considers that a drop in the bucket compared to adding ONE MORE load to a "powerplant" for the week.

Your Power Unit, and yourself, are being mismanaged economicaly by your dispatcher or the entire department. If you want to continue driving flatbed, go with a company that "specializes" in it! You will do well there!

If you REALLY insist on giving Roehl another chance.... then I suggest you try another division.... NOW. Before you go broke and have to quit trucking! You've proven yourself to all of us as being capable of doing the man's work of tarping and chaining. Now... get a good paying job. If it needs to be at Roehl, give another division and dispatcher and DM a chance to show you what the REST of the company really is!

I just got home from a 5 day trip that took 6 days, so I'm a little "cranky!" But, I got PAID! I've got my whole trucking future ahead of me to learn the "tough stuff" of being a trucker. I'll make those choices in time... from the luxury of financial security. Right now I'm trying to justify doing 75 across Arizona without caring about hitting a deer! I'm moving freight! And getting paid for it.

This week alone (the past 11 have been on average about the same,) I've had a blow-out, had to kill an overnight waiting on new tags and plates for my truck (after driving around Cali out of date by one day,) wasted HOURS sitting around waiting on my dispatch and/or a produce shed to get their stuff together, got caught in another freak "ice storm" in Dallas, and had a bitch for a co-driver!

Oh... did I mention the idiot trucker who came down a ramp in the rocking chair with two others, then after I moved over for them... this idiot pulls into the hammer lane because he thinks he can do 1 or 2 mph faster than the lead truck going uphill.... not caring that "I" am doing 75 in the hammer lane that he just blocked???????!!!!!!!!! It was DAYLIGHT so I don't know the distance covered by my headlights, but if he'd been a deer... he'd have lived, because I woahed down a mere 65,000 lb load in about the distance of two T/T's!!! (the uphill helped!)

What was my point? :lol: :roll:

Oh yeah... I got PAID for it! I'm home now for another "weekend," and life goes on. It seems YOUR life is tied too much to a dream that doesn't PAY well.

Figure it out... then straighten it out.