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Well now I guess I can say I do know you and how you operate.
Missouri to Philly, PA is approx. 1,000 miles.
@ a minimum of .35 cpm that would be $350.00 for that run. How do you end up with a $60.00 paycheck? Explain that one to me.
My guess would be you are hanging out at the truckstops taking advances. How else could you explain the difference?
And if you are not happy with the miles your dispatcher is giving you GET ANOTHER DISPATCHER! I don't care how nice he may be, he's not making you any money.
I fired my first dispatcher because he wasn't doing as well as I thought he should be.
Again, the moral of the story......Instead of setting around bitching about it. Do something to change it and make it better.
It appears to me you had plenty of time to figure out what to do to make it better. Call your terminal manager and get him involved. If that doesn't work go over his head. Do whatever you have to do to get what you want. did you ever hear the phrase "The squeaky wheel gets the grease?" Believe me it works. Just don't throw your hands up and say "I quit!"
Regardless of your personal situation. Knight is not considered profitable unless every truck hits the 2,500 mile per week mark. And trust me they are doing everything possible to make sure that happens.
Ah yes..I hang out in truckstops taking advances..Nope sorry don't take advances so you can squash that theory. Its a little over 1000 miles but instead of making .35cpm how about .22cpm? They have this little thing they call per diem or did you forget about that. So take the .13cpm off for per diem and thats what the load payed. And they only pay you .11cpm of that per diem back on the net side for the load and keep .2cpm for to take care of "expenses" on their end for paying per diem? Are you kidding me? Its a rip off. I've never seen a company whine as much as they did when I asked them numerous times to take me off the per diem pay plan. Did they do it? No. If a company is going to pay per diem, pay the whole daily allowance allowed by the government instead of ripping drivers off by only paying part of it and ripping drivers off by keeping .2cpm for "expenses." And although its none of your business, I do have to pay child support. But thats not the point. The point is what happened that week was typical of every week I spent at Knight. I called Phoneix and asked them who was responsible for getting 2500 miles to the truck. Their answer, load planners and dispatchers. So I asked them to look at my runs and tell me why I'm only averaging 1500. They couldn't give me an answer. Believe me all levels of management got involved in trying to figure out why I sat so much...my dispatcher, my terminal manger Dave and folks out of Phoneix. The response I always got was "we'll get back to ya, lets us do some research." Well you know, I can only put up with this "research" for so long. Its sad when a company as large as Knight won't even call its own drivers back to let them know whats going on or what they've found out. I have never in my life been so direspected by a truck company. And its sad to see they still have trolls like you working for them oblivious to who they really are. You should open your eyes and get the big picture. I worked my ass off for them 70hrs a week only to sit and wait for loads and chase down empty trailers that weren't where they said they were. Ya know it gets old going to 5 different places looking for empty trailers that don't exist. You would think that with this satellite tracking they have on their trailers, they could eliminate this problem. Saying that other drivers expect empty trailers to be across the street or accusing drivers of not wanting to go look for trailers shows how much of a blind idiot you are. You are apparently one of those drivers that knows it all right? You been there done that? You sure do talk like you know me and know my driving habits. Hell you see me sitting around at truckstops taking advances apparently so I must be wrong right? I'm just making this all up, surely it can't be true. The owner of Knight Transportation..former VP of Swift..need I say more. Buty hey Dollarshort, you go ahead and keep driving for them cause it working out great for you so it must be that way for all their drivers right? Oh I did solve the problem with them by the way, I left them back in December. Pretty much had to or I was gonna lose everything I had cause I couldn't pay the bills. I'm done with the trucking industry. 1300-1500 miles per week with per diem pay, are you serious? You have a good time with them.
You are better off out of the trucking industry!Originally Posted by conanj31
Dollarshort says...Well now I guess I can say I do know you and how you operate.
Missouri to Philly, PA is approx. 1,000 miles.
@ a minimum of .35 cpm that would be $350.00 for that run. How do you end up with a $60.00 paycheck? Explain that one to me.
My guess would be you are hanging out at the truckstops taking advances. How else could you explain the difference?
And if you are not happy with the miles your dispatcher is giving you GET ANOTHER DISPATCHER! I don't care how nice he may be, he's not making you any money.
I fired my first dispatcher because he wasn't doing as well as I thought he should be.
Again, the moral of the story......Instead of setting around bitching about it. Do something to change it and make it better.
It appears to me you had plenty of time to figure out what to do to make it better. Call your terminal manager and get him involved. If that doesn't work go over his head. Do whatever you have to do to get what you want. did you ever hear the phrase "The squeaky wheel gets the grease?" Believe me it works. Just don't throw your hands up and say "I quit!"
Regardless of your personal situation. Knight is not considered profitable unless every truck hits the 2,500 mile per week mark. And trust me they are doing everything possible to make sure that happens.
Ah yes..I hang out in truckstops taking advances..Nope sorry don't take advances so you can squash that theory. Its a little over 1000 miles but instead of making .35cpm how about .22cpm? They have this little thing they call per diem or did you forget about that. So take the .13cpm off for per diem and thats what the load payed. And they only pay you .11cpm of that per diem back on the net side for the load and keep .2cpm for to take care of "expenses" on their end for paying per diem? Are you kidding me? Its a rip off. I've never seen a company whine as much as they did when I asked them numerous times to take me off the per diem pay plan. Did they do it? No. If a company is going to pay per diem, pay the whole daily allowance allowed by the government instead of ripping drivers off by only paying part of it and ripping drivers off by keeping .2cpm for "expenses." And although its none of your business, I do have to pay child support. But thats not the point. The point is what happened that week was typical of every week I spent at Knight. I called Phoneix and asked them who was responsible for getting 2500 miles to the truck. Their answer, load planners and dispatchers. So I asked them to look at my runs and tell me why I'm only averaging 1500. They couldn't give me an answer. Believe me all levels of management got involved in trying to figure out why I sat so much...my dispatcher, my terminal manger Dave and folks out of Phoneix. The response I always got was "we'll get back to ya, lets us do some research." Well you know, I can only put up with this "research" for so long. Its sad when a company as large as Knight won't even call its own drivers back to let them know whats going on or what they've found out. I have never in my life been so direspected by a truck company. And its sad to see they still have trolls like you working for them oblivious to who they really are. You should open your eyes and get the big picture. I worked my ass off for them 70hrs a week only to sit and wait for loads and chase down empty trailers that weren't where they said they were. Ya know it gets old going to 5 different places looking for empty trailers that don't exist. You would think that with this satellite tracking they have on their trailers, they could eliminate this problem. Saying that other drivers expect empty trailers to be across the street or accusing drivers of not wanting to go look for trailers shows how much of a blind idiot you are. You are apparently one of those drivers that knows it all right? You been there done that? You sure do talk like you know me and know my driving habits. Hell you see me sitting around at truckstops taking advances apparently so I must be wrong right? I'm just making this all up, surely it can't be true. The owner of Knight Transportation..former VP of Swift..need I say more. Buty hey Dollarshort, you go ahead and keep driving for them cause it working out great for you so it must be that way for all their drivers right? Oh I did solve the problem with them by the way, I left them back in December. Pretty much had to or I was gonna lose everything I had cause I couldn't pay the bills. I'm done with the trucking industry. 1300-1500 miles per week with per diem pay, are you serious? You have a good time with them.
Again you are just bitching and complaining. Why would you be stupid enough to take per diem? Anyone with common sense would realize that if the company is pushing that hard for you to go on it it obviously is benefitting nobody but the company. They told me I had to go on per diem at the end of last year. I said no thanks!
Hopefully you find better luck in a different line of work. Maybe union work would suit you better. Those guys love sitting around bitching. :roll: