Does May charge for excess idleing????
 

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

Re: Does May charge for excess idleing????
 

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?

Wow
 

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.

Re: Does May charge for excess idleing????
 

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?

There are some sort of rule at most compaines like 40% idle time.. I can tell you it is not all bad and they have apu heaters in the summer they do not expect you to roast..

At last count it cost on average about 2.25 per hour to idle a big truck

from what the bean counters tell us where I work.

Easy to see where the numbers could get really big over a fleet of trucks

idling night after night.

I did about a year ago. There starting pay was more last year and i heard there buying 9 speeds, but there a pretty good outfit compared to these other startup companies. Better pay per mile, 100% lumper pay and no touch, better equipment. Dry side just does I-5 pretty much and the reefer side is just random but good miles. I still have 3 friends that have been with them for 2 years

do any of them base out of phoenix and are they happy with the miles

We have a terminal in Phx and yes all are happy the manager there is a good one.. :twisted: Starting pay is the same :twisted:

starting pay was 32cpm and after 1 year they bumped you too 36cpm. Now they start you at 30cpm and bump you to 34 after 1 year., not the same. 2 are out of payette and 1 is out of brooks. The 2 drive reefer and get 3000 + a week and the other runs I-5 from sacto to washington.

WRONG they start you at 34 after a year move you to 36.. But some of the pay is based on what you have..

Im just sayin what there website says for entry level drivers which he is, and last year when i was an entry level driver i was started out at 34, now they start you out at 32.

I am not sure you might be correct :twisted: :twisted:

well in fact per website fresh out of school its only .30 which makes them a little unappealing but sounds like they get you the miles

depends on the time of year they are slow as are most companies febuary next month it will pick up good luck to you. :twisted:

BigA are the reefers running 48?

WOW!...not only do they expect you to live out of a rolling cage for weeks on end for no money...now they charge you to live like a human being instead of an animal. And all that for a whopping .34 cpm off HHG-ripoff miles?!?!?!?

Most units have heaters in the some they expect you to run the motor idle rule is 30% but if your hot just let you dispatcher there called osl there.

Reefer runs all 48 and you must have your Hazmat. 11 western doesnt require hazmat and they use 14' trailers instead of your regular 13'6. My friend has one of the first 387s they got that did not come with a bunk heater so they allow him to idle longer.

i have run for 4 companies in my life May is not as bad as the big 6 i guarntte that...