[color=#000000:post_uid13]MARTEN TRANSPORT (BLUE BIRD ) sUCKS THEY DO NOT TREAT THERE DRIVERS WELL IF YOU DIS AGREE WITH THOSE DESK JOCKEYS THEY FIND ANY REASON TO KEEP YOU OUT AND GIVE YOU THE ####### LOADS[/color:post_uid13]



Edited By Doctor Who on 1044287032

WELL WELL WELL
 

TRY :evil: 'MHF TRUCKING IN "ZIELIENOPLE PA" :evil: .. IF YOU HURT YOURSELF THEY WILL FIRE YOU OR SAY YOU QUIT PRIOR TO INJURY...

THE ANNUAL BONUS ALMOST NEVER GETS PAID .... I WAITED 3 1/2 YEARS FOR MY 1ST YEAR BONUS. HONEST COMPANIES SEEM TO BE HARDER AND HARDER TO FIND.. AND MORE AND MORE COMPANIES LIKE 'MHF" JUST USE THE BONUS AS A PLOY, TO REAL YA IN .. :twisted:

AND NEVER INTEND TO PAY YOU .... EVEN IF YOU NEVER GOT A TICKET OR ACCIDENT WITH EM.... ANYONE THAT WORKS THERE KNOWS THAT ... AND FOR THOSE COMING ABORAD... :roll:GOD HELP YA :roll: "

I know I shouldn't, but I just can't resist.....

If the original author thinks all dispatchers are sleaze, I'd be the Dispatcher from HELL........

"You don't want to go where??????" "OK, let's see, oh I have a great one for ya!!!" "5 stop Brooklyn and you're the only one I have to do it!!!" :P :P

Doctor Who
 

Why do all the whiners get all the good loads, like 5 stoppers in Brooklyn?? Typically, those loads pay the best!

DAK, a very good question indeed, I'm not sure if there is a real good answer. The closest I can come to an answer is luck of the draw..

Ha ha Doc, You know how I feel about those NYC loads. :nervous:

Gimme Gimme...
 

I'll tell you the load of my dreams...it paid me very well...but bear with me....


Picked up in:

Vernon, CA and had 18 drops on it...all coke machines..

Phileadelphia, PA
Newark, NJ
Bronx, NY x 4
Alabany, NY
Winchester, VA
Altoona, PA
Erie, PA
Detroit, MI
Kalamazoo, MI
Gary, IN
Chicago, IL
Milwaukee, WI
ST Louis, MO
Kansas City, MO
Dallas, TX

Now I got the pay stub to prove it along with my logs...it was a monster and I was busy for a week and a half.... About 5500 miles....give or take
@ 27cents a mile plus $25 for the stops....and then I got an extra $400 for lumping it off the truck...so as you can see....give ME your nasty loads...pays a lot better....These whiney babies who want 1 and 1's are just starving themselves to death.

My one weeks paycheck for that load was over $2000 and I was a company driver...I love it

Hey Doc
 

Yo Doc, you are 1 sick puppy. Anyway, there are lots of crappy companies out there that treat some drivers like dirt.

I agree, there are alot of crapy loads, and there are horrible dispatchers. I myself will be getting into a bigger company soon but the company I did work for was great, till they went under. It was run by an O/O who couldn't pass his DOT physical. He taught me how to drive, and let me go solo when I was ready. He dispatched all loads. I have no other experience to go by, but I think having a former driver as a dispatcher makes things go alot smoother.

It's sure helps, when you've been, on a both sides of the fence! :D

I don't know if your an OO or not but I like to get loads from Zrate periodically.

New York City?!?!?! Get a rope... (For those who didn't catch that reference, watch this: This Stuff's Made In New York City!!! Pace Thick & Chunky - YouTube )
We don't have stores in NYC, so I don't have that problem. As for 'east coast,' I don't care for the actual coastal areas. Give me the hills and hollers of Wild, Wonderful Worst Virginia any day. That said, if I get a run to the north or to the coast, I run it. I may not like it, but I'll do it. I know that dispatch will make up for it somewhere somehow. The dispatcher I have now may pull some stupid stunts, but she's never lied to me. Neither have the previous ones I've had. When it comes to who gets what load, sometimes it's bad luck and sometimes it's good luck.

This reminds me of a run I was supposed to do several years ago. (Mind you, I run on a dedicated account based in South Boston, VA, as did my friend) I was pre-assigned a two-stop load to Middlesex, NC and Sneads Ferry, NC. It paid around $300 and one could do most of that run in a day. Don, on the other hand, had a 3- or 4-stop load that only went to Lynchburg and Madison Heights, which only paid $150ish, but would take 6 less hours to do. Since Don liked to spin the odometer more than me (and I knew my way around Lynchburg, as I was raised 10 miles away), he called and fussed at our former dispatcher, who switched our trips. I thought nothing more of it until I returned to the yard. I checked my phone, and there was a message. I called Don back and he sounded a bit irritated. He said "You'll never guess what I found in my trailer today." I said, "Ok, gimme three guesses. Either A) manure (which had been found in a tote by the ladies at the Vansant, VA store some years back), B) a snake (which had been found in a rolltainer at the Buena Vista, VA store, and in a rolltainer at the Wakefield, VA store) or C) a stowaway (which none of us have found, to my knowledge)." He said, "Well, you got one right." My prophetic response? "Oh crap..."

Warning: Those with weak stomachs and Pringles addictions should quit reading now.

Somebody did their business in one end of a case of Pringles (which are open on each end) and threw the strikin' paper in the other end. I'm sure our dispatcher heard more four-letter words in their phone conversation that I've heard all year. To my knowledge, the person who did that was not caught or punished. When I was on the phone with Don, he said "I reckon that's what I get for griping about a [figuratively] crappy load."

OMG! I'm surprised to hear that ANYbody likes driving the mountains! They're HORRID! The company I'm with now only runs east, except for the flatbed part of the company. They get to go to California and they get the great runs that go on the really great roads, I-80, I-65, I-57. You get it, the nice straight, flat roads. LOVE 'EM! I ran I-80 from Illinois to California for a while on a different company. Other than the salt flats, the runs were just special. I got spoiled.

Now I'm with crap company that the dispatchers have no idea what it's like to be on a truck and really try to screw with the drivers. The one I've got now is a real stupid B. Example, got a run taking me home. She doesn't know the area but wouldn't take my advice in regards to where to take the truck for the night and where to fuel (no parking in the delivery area). She told me to take it 37 miles away to a drop yard, multiple tolls, but to get fuel in the middle of the big metropolis where I live. She is so stupid that she didn't know the gas/fuel station isn't in the Pilot network (no company discount), does not accommodate trucks and with the major construction projects and low overpasses, turned out to be impossible to access. If I had gone the other way, 35 miles, a safe Pilot, in the Pilot network (could have gotten company discount), 10 miles away from where I live, no tolls.

I could also have gotten fuel a few miles away from the drop yard, but she insisted I go to the one in the middle of the city. What a dumb _ _ _ _ _! Just one of many such instances of her trying to screw with me.

The dispatch office is so abusive, when you first start with the company, they go so far as to dispatch you to a hard to find address and then disconnect the navigation system. Then you can hear them laughing in the background when you call. Threatening to call the office in the morning to let them know how the drivers are being treated sure straightens them up quickly.