Is this true I'd love to see a response from opal in paticular

 

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...r=asc&start=60

 

They do charge if you run it for any reasons that are not approved by your dispatcher.. They do not charge for weather related or if you ask and get approved by your dispatcher they are ok with it... I worked there and am going back very soon.. The cost for me to run it was like $40 a week for fridge and stuff ran 24/7 .. :twisted:

 

Read this post, it is all explained:

May Days

 

thx all is this an industry wide practice or unique to may?

 

It has to be unique to May. Maybe a few others will do it but very few. It is one of the most demeaning thyings I have ever heard of to have to do. I have heard of asking a DM for things before like layover and some such but to have to ask for idle is the most demeaning thing I ever heard of before.

Why is no other companies having this attitude that it is stealing? And to have read that it is the life we chose to go over the road so it is ok to suffer? What is that all about? And to hear some moron recruiter say that they were one of us so they know what it is like and agrees with this demeaning crap? Damn poor excuse.

All I can say is that May better have something a lot to offer besides this to even expect to overcome such a demeaning act. If this is their attitude then I would want many answers to other questions before I would even consider to work for them. For them to say you are stealing their money because you want to be a little better comfortable then says they probably are suspectiong you of stealing in other ways and have things they watch for that is just as assinine.

 

It is amazing what trucking companies get away with. :shock: I would scratch them off your list.

 

The company I drive for (who will remain nameless)

will bark at the drivers with high idle times (excess of 40% in summer)

then if that don't make an impression they will turn down the governor speed

on the tractor .. its all part of the new cruelty :lol:

 

They have 13 speed transmissions and trucks are speced out like o/o and there starting pay is better than most. And all it takes is just a call to your osl for some extra idle hours.

 

biga do you drive for may?