Profile For Ismael O.

So Wait I'm A New Solo DriverI Get .40 A Mile With CR, So I'm A Company Driver And They Gave Me A Load 18 Miles to Pickup And 35 miles to drop Off, That's About 29 Bucks, To Drop Pickup, And Then Go And Live Unload, Now I Put In For My 34 Hour Before This Happened, I'm Here At The Drop And There Not Unloading Till Tomorrow, ButI HaveIt Setup That I Can Drop And Continue My 34 Without Coming On The Clock, So They Want Me To Drop Come On The Clock, With 15 Hrs In Of A 34 For 20$ Common Seriously, I Am A Rookie But I Drive Hard and Work Hard, This Is A Bit Disrespectful That They Expect Someone To Do All That Work, And It's On LA Traffic There No Rights For Truckers Because We Have To Do 55 While Everyone Is Doing 70 And Do All This For 20$ So What About People On My Situation, Who Are By The Miles,And Get Something Below 100 or So Miles, I Did RefuseThe Load Over The Comm, 20 Min Ago, SoDontKnow How That's Gonna Go But Let Me Know, 50 Miles at .40 Cents What Would You Do? It's Alot Of Work To Drop Pick Up Live Unload Could Be Hrs On LA I Dunno I Was Upset At PutI Don't Accept They Haven't CalledYet, But Anyways Let Me Know.

I dont want to beat a dead horse but like everyone else has said, communication goes a long way. I dont get paid for miles so my situation is a little different. I talk to my DM a couple times a day. Usually when I finish my work and have extra time and finding out what the plan for the next day is. He knows that I always finish early and want to fill my day in so he has started to just ask me about the extra work early instead of waiting for me to call and ask. The extra hourly pay usually turns into an extra $50 or $60 on the day. For example yesterday I tested a truck that had work done pulling a loaded trailer transferring a part between shops. 3 hours of just driving around at $20+ an hour and it let me brush up on my shifting and this was after delivering a $200+ load. It has taken around 2 months to get to this point though and talking to him every day about doing extra.

On the flip side another driver at the same yard and same DM is complaining about his pay and how he just can't afford to stay. He doesn't want to work more then 10 hours and rarely finishes his second runs, doesn't usually stop up to work a weekend day or do extra. His calls are usually about not finishing instead of taking more. Therefore he gets setup with 1 short-medium run and makes maybe $100 for the day.

I guess that's more communication, work ethic and attitude in the end...