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<blockquote data-quote="Dracula" data-source="post: 1338419" data-attributes="member: 42691"><p>Look, I'm not saying to fight just to fight. But I've been a bid cover driver, and here, you've got to keep your nose in the dispatch book. If you don't, you'll find the dispatcher will hide work from you. And a lot of our dispatchers tend to get a little too big for their britches. The way I look at it, we can go easy or we can go hard. I'd rather go easy. Heartbeats are lower when things go easy. But you know how it is: this company likes to make things difficult whenever possible. And everything rolls downhill at this place.</p><p></p><p>The dispatcher gets an earful or a nasty email, then they want to make up ground off the driver's back. Hell, I'll even help if I'm able. But don't expect favors from me when you're acting like some punk that's been bullied too much. </p><p></p><p>I've got my own run, going to the same place every night. If they want to play the crappy tractor game, we can go down that road. I'll go find my radio box, drag it out, and drag it to the POS tractor. All that does is add time to my leave work. Guess what? Then they get the earful/email about why I left late. I want my tractor everyday, but I won't cry if I don't get it. My hourly rate is the same no matter what my tractor # is.</p><p></p><p>Cach, I get it about subcontractors. Our dispatchers have no say so over it. And we are adding drivers just like you guys are. The only difference is that here, they go out of their way to keep our hours down. There aren't a whole lot of drivers getting their 60 here. I get 55 on my job, and can usually add another three or four hours a week on top of that. But generally speaking, in our area, most of the 300 + drivers are lucky to get 50 hours a week.</p><p></p><p>That's fine if subcontractors are nowhere to be seen, but that's not the case here. Last week, they were cutting out mileage jobs on Friday while the gypos were taking out loads. </p><p></p><p>Again, it's amazing how different things are in different places.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dracula, post: 1338419, member: 42691"] Look, I'm not saying to fight just to fight. But I've been a bid cover driver, and here, you've got to keep your nose in the dispatch book. If you don't, you'll find the dispatcher will hide work from you. And a lot of our dispatchers tend to get a little too big for their britches. The way I look at it, we can go easy or we can go hard. I'd rather go easy. Heartbeats are lower when things go easy. But you know how it is: this company likes to make things difficult whenever possible. And everything rolls downhill at this place. The dispatcher gets an earful or a nasty email, then they want to make up ground off the driver's back. Hell, I'll even help if I'm able. But don't expect favors from me when you're acting like some punk that's been bullied too much. I've got my own run, going to the same place every night. If they want to play the crappy tractor game, we can go down that road. I'll go find my radio box, drag it out, and drag it to the POS tractor. All that does is add time to my leave work. Guess what? Then they get the earful/email about why I left late. I want my tractor everyday, but I won't cry if I don't get it. My hourly rate is the same no matter what my tractor # is. Cach, I get it about subcontractors. Our dispatchers have no say so over it. And we are adding drivers just like you guys are. The only difference is that here, they go out of their way to keep our hours down. There aren't a whole lot of drivers getting their 60 here. I get 55 on my job, and can usually add another three or four hours a week on top of that. But generally speaking, in our area, most of the 300 + drivers are lucky to get 50 hours a week. That's fine if subcontractors are nowhere to be seen, but that's not the case here. Last week, they were cutting out mileage jobs on Friday while the gypos were taking out loads. Again, it's amazing how different things are in different places. [/QUOTE]
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