He LOVED the job but whenever he needed dispatch they never did ANYTHING. I mean giving him the service failure because he knew he couldn't deliver the load and contacted dispatch immediately to get a repower they told him to wait till the next morning to contact dispatch, then when they finally got him one we busted our a@! to get to the repower, even tried to save the company time and money but they wouldn't budge and the other driver was late so they put in on my hubby come on, since when did trucking become kindergarten??

 

And yet he was. 5 times.

Nobody is telling you to lie on your logbook. There are, however, 24 hours in a day, which means you can legally drive about 13 hours each and every day (figuring in for pre trip, post trip, and fueling). In 13 hours, you can do 780 miles easily (averaging 60 miles per hour). The only thing that will stop you is the 70 hour clock.

How was he up against the 14 hour clock? What caused this?

It is up to the driver to know whether or not a trip can be completed in the time given to do so. This is something that comes from experience. An experienced driver knows to give himself enough time to allow for things such as accidents and road construction. The job of dispatch is to assign loads, and make sure the drivers are doing what is expected of them. They assigned all 5 of those loads, and your husband accepted them. If there wasn't enough time to complete the load, then the time to discuss this with dispatch is when the load is assigned.

On time for everything, except when you weren't.

I still contend that this is a time management issue, rather than an impossible dispatch issue.

 

Rev until you drive for FLORILLI do not judge the drivers who get hit with the impossible demands they put on them. They love to try to get drivers to go Avon NY to Stockton CA southern route via El Paso Tx and Phoenix AZ. Total distance is around 3900 miles and they give you 5 days to drive it in. Now for a team not a problem at all 3 days you are there solo you are running hard max hours all the time to get it there. I got that run 4 times in a row yes the miles were great on the paycheck but the 15 hour days to get the load there sucked.

 

Hey welcome to the trucking game.....

 

Do you think some of the problem might be your husband? I looked at some of your other posts going back to July. He's worked for Wenger, Knight, Swift and Florilli? Are there more? Seems like there's always a problem at each company. He's going to start running out options for working for good companies.

 

THAT is exactly one of the problems with the biz and the people in it.

Instead of standing up for yourself and obeying the rules, you cower to the company and bend the rules for their benefit. All it takes is bending the rules once and you'll be expected to bend them again and again.

That is why trucking is in the crappy shape it is, people bending/breaking the rules for short term gain when it ends up f*****g them and the biz in the long term.

 

Its been that way for a long time.
Truck drivers made the business the way it is today.

 

Nobody makes drivers pull for this company.

 

That is so true.

The mistake that happened was that they saw the company starting to pull bull$hit, and stayed with them. I would guess that there is a lesson for everyone here.

The second a company forces you to run illegal, you should take their truck, at their expense, back to them, and give them the finger. There are other jobs.

As far as leaving you stranded....you got out of the truck. You should have drove yourself home. You got stuck with abandonment anyways, why not be home when you do?

And for all of you siding with the company.....try driving for them for awhile, then come back here and give your opinion.

just my .02 cents.

 

Well said, Highwayman. So many git-r'-done supertruckers with the "yeehaw loads gotta get there come hell, high water, or the DOT man" mentality. One mishap, wreck, accident, etc and their two-bit employers will wash their hands of them in a heartbeat. Regardless of how many years in, how many favors they did, how they covered for the company, everything else.

Hey, more power to your hubby, Sevlow. Tell him to suck in that gut and hold up his chin and keep on truckin'...