Sounds like someone needs "Creative Logging 101" If you were at the receivers and just had to unload, and DOT wasn't sitting there to check logs, just pull in and unload then pull off and figure the logs out.
Best thing I ever bought for the truck was Drivers Daily Log and put it on my laptop. Real easy to re arrange things so they fit.

 

Please - I'd love to know how I am "Waaaaaaaaaaay off" on this. If my driver stopped 50 miles from destination and called in sick, I'd be pissed off. If they stopped 1000 miles from destination and called in sick, then they left me some breathing room to either repower the load, or contact the consignee to reschedule delivery.

 

Yeah.........any company where they have sex in the office is probably not a good one. I mean sht, can't they go home?

I worked for one.

 

Ok, i'm sorry about what happened sevlow, and i'll get with you in a minute to try to help you.

But first, let me give some more juicy details:

When i worked at the food distributor one of the managers married one of the owners of the company. (the company is owned by serveral brothers) You could tell that she just did it for the money because this one owner was handicapped rather severly. You know, he couldn't function in bed much less at work. He would fall asleep regularly and was real slow both mentally and physically. I'm not putting him down now, I loved him as a friend and person. I'm just telling things like they are.

She was/is a really messed up Biaaatch. She didn't like me and i didn't like her. What happened was i became dispatcher and i wouldn't do things that she wanted me to do because i was looking out for my drivers see? She wanted me to stuff that was illegal and try to push the drivers to do things illegal. But i wasn't having any of dat sht. Hence, she started not to like me.

She ended up getting her a$$ fired and the other manager got fired too. Not because they got caught on the desk, but because they were both screwing up (figuratively) losing money etc.

So she's still married to that one brother( WHO SHE WAS CAUGHT CHEATING ON ON THE DESK) and she weaseled hew way back into the company somehow----because that's what slimy people do.

 

You ARE way off on this. I just have to ask how can YOU pick the time you get sick? It's not like you call up the Sick Fairy and say, "Hey, I need a nasty flu bug, but I need it to hit on Tuesday, not Wednesday."

It shouldn't matter whether you get sick 50 miles from your delivery or 1000, sick is sick.

 

Just like yoopr, you are missing the entire point. Look at it from a company's perspective, and maybe you'll get it eventually.

 

well Rev.... I understand where you are coming from.
Depending on how fast it came on and how bad it was ( and most of the time you know it's coming ) if I had 50 miles left, I would have bucked up, hit the dock, then called in sick.

 

He simply ran out of hours on both occasions. It was the 14 hr clock he ran out of on both times. And yes he let dispatch know, even nigh time dispatch told him you ran out of hrs take your break. We were still an hour and half away from receiver. Isn't no matter what you cannot go over your 14 hr clock?

 

Actually, both sides have a point.

From a company standpoint, a customer with a million dollar account isn't going to care about one driver getting sick. They're going to want to know that the company they are contracted with, has planned for such problems.

On the other side of the coin, sick is indeed sick. However, getting sick doesn't typically happen all at once. When you start feeling sick, you should let your dispatcher know ASAP so they can have contingency plans in effect, just in case you can't make it. But that said, sometimes things do come on all at once and when that happens, you simply do the best you can and communicate.

 

He was NOT 50 miles from destination we were in TN and it had to be delivered to Atlanta, GA when he started getting sick, and he doesn't pussyfoot around. He HATES being late somethings are just out of a drivers control. He doesn't like to LIE on his logbook, it'sNOT worth it. Who's going to pay the price if you lie, your dispatcher? Obviously not, it's going to be YOU! They never went to bat for the driver, and he can handle the job no problem, but when things come up it's up to dispatch to do their job as well isn't it? We were on time for everything else except these.