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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3778129" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>Heck the nearest thing to a 40hr week in these parts is when a short timer gets fed up with being out after 9pm three nights in a row and calls in sick Thursday and Friday.</p><p> </p><p>There's no standard definition of "Preferable" so what one driver thinks would be ideal, the next might have a different picture in his/her mind. If indeed there are buildings out there where drivers can actually be done and on their way home before 6PM, then I hope they take advantage of it as much as they can while they can because as most know, it's a trend that never sticks around for long.</p><p></p><p>Many years back, the oldest guys with highest seniority would get a dispatch often not much over 9 while the newer drivers who weren't near the full scale wage would be looking at mostly north of 11 so even if they did run bonus with OT, the company still made out due to the sizable wage disparity. Now it's almost the complete opposite where the newest hires are so hobbled due to the failed ORION traces that the company has to hold them to something near an 8hr dispatch just in the hope that they can manage to get done in something not too far over 10 which means the experienced guys have to fight more and more to get days where the loads aren't complete basket cases. I don't see that dynamic changing anytime soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3778129, member: 4550"] Heck the nearest thing to a 40hr week in these parts is when a short timer gets fed up with being out after 9pm three nights in a row and calls in sick Thursday and Friday. There's no standard definition of "Preferable" so what one driver thinks would be ideal, the next might have a different picture in his/her mind. If indeed there are buildings out there where drivers can actually be done and on their way home before 6PM, then I hope they take advantage of it as much as they can while they can because as most know, it's a trend that never sticks around for long. Many years back, the oldest guys with highest seniority would get a dispatch often not much over 9 while the newer drivers who weren't near the full scale wage would be looking at mostly north of 11 so even if they did run bonus with OT, the company still made out due to the sizable wage disparity. Now it's almost the complete opposite where the newest hires are so hobbled due to the failed ORION traces that the company has to hold them to something near an 8hr dispatch just in the hope that they can manage to get done in something not too far over 10 which means the experienced guys have to fight more and more to get days where the loads aren't complete basket cases. I don't see that dynamic changing anytime soon. [/QUOTE]
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