Profile For Francis

Hey guys it’s been a while since I’ve been in here hope everyone is having a happy merry Christmas.Three weeks ago I transferred to a dedicated flatbed position at Schneider. Loving it so far, and all is well except one little problem. Every time I get some round piping and attempt to do some belly straps , I find that as I’m going down the road my straps will be loose after just a little while. Now I’ve been constantly looking in my mirrors at my trailer, paranoid that my straps are loose and sure enough when I do my 50 mile check and three hour checks my straps are horrendous. If any experienced guys could give me some pointers and instructions it would be much appreciated 😅

Hi. I did a video that explains HOS quite a bit including splits. Hope this helps

HOS Explained

This is kinda cool to say but one of your YouTube videos just popped up on my YouTube algorithm :) , I’ll definitely watch your hos video and reply back if I have any questions thanks for the patience hahah

Hey Francis!

I want to encourage you to

Learn The Logbook Rules (HOS).

It's always easiest to do what we are comfortable with, but it keeps us struggling unnecessarily. Many truckers settle for much less than they deserve. Stretch yourself and practice the things that will help you outperform your peers.

I'm curious... if you've burned up your 70, using 10-13 hours per day, what kind of miles did you turn in?

I think you're leaving a good bit of money on the table. Knowing the rules, and understanding how to take advantage of them, is absolutely something you need to get familiar with.

That link I provided you is a great place to start.

Hey thanks for the link I’ll check it out! This week I’ve done 482,530,449,526,488. I’ve been running mostly LA , Sacramento ,las Vegas and phoenix and everywhere in between lol. I’ve read a bit about 8/2 and 7/3 but what I don’t understand is if it resets your 14 hour clock and your 11 hour or just one of them. That’s so true on the unnecessary stress I feel I put on myself trying to calculate my hours in correlation to my destinations.

What do your recaps look like? That's probably going to be your better option than trying to get a 34.

I don’t have any hours added , this whole week I’ve used up about 10-13 hours a day . I made the decision to just do my 34 and call my company about it. Don’t think they’re too happy with me at the time but I’ll just try my best. :) I’m kinda confused on how recaps and split sleeper works. Sometimes I feel I could be utilizing things like this but end up sticking with what I’m comfortable with.

Hey everybody today I Got a load starting in French camp Ca delivering to Salt Lake City on the 10th. I only have 7:50 on my 70 clock .if I ended my day at 6 today and take my 34 reset and start back up right at 4 am on Sunday will I be able to make the drive it’s a 12-13 hour drive so I guessed that answers that but what if I used some time remaining on my 7:50 tomorrow at 4 am and then do a 34 hour reset I’m trying to do the math but you probably guessed it ,I suck haha anyone know if it’s possible to get this load on time .:) thanks

I’m with Schneider btw, that’s a good idea I’ve honestly never thought to just directly contact the receiver maybe because I’ve heard she say he say not to and didn’t want to step on some toes lol one thing I will forsure not be doing is cutting it close anymore especially because I got a message that this is my 2 nd time I’ve been late for an appointment and one more I get a write up. After that I think it’s training back at the oc and after that bye bye haha . Really like this company they’ve been keeping me running 🫡

I don't know your specific company but every one I've been at I've had access to a direct contact ( my slave driver ), you shoot that person either a text or voicemail ASAP before even trying to make contact with the larger dispatch network. This is mainly to CYA and make sure that at the least you made an effort to communicate the issue, at best they have better contact info than you do and even after hours can fix it all and just send you a 👍. BTW there's nothing wrong at all with showing up after appointment or after a location is listed as closed, you'd be surprised how often things can just work out, always however leave yourself enough time to get to anywhere you can shut down for 10hrs no matter what.

If only receivers had truck stops attached !! Lol and I won’t even lie my sorry excuse was taking a shower at pilot beforehand haha I also didn’t take into account the rainy day in Seattle 🫢

Yup you were placed in a no win situation not of your doing. Customers that do not have parking or allow us in until real close to appt. time run this risk.

Now on the other point if you had a window and cut it that close by choice, then that is on you. But if your hours available dictated that was when you would arrive, again nothing else you could do.

If I have a window I always shoot for the earliest I can roll in.

We can’t control what DOT chooses to do. Not your fault, just chaulk it up to experience.

That’s a pain in the butt , dispatch must’ve been looking at the info on google hahah.

Yes, that sucks big time ! Been there, done that due to bad info from dispatch lol.....Had a few in my day driving, get to a reciever, only to find they were closed for the weekend. Even after asking more than once their hours of operation from our dispatch, assuring us they would be open lol NOT !!

After a couple times of this, I would find the recievers phone number (IF possible) and call em direct, even if dispatch told us NOT to call customers! Almost ALL of our paperwork never listed the customers contact info !! There was more than 1 way to skin a cat hahaha, NEVER had that happen again to us/me

Hey everybody, today I was headed to my appointment as every other day lol. My eta was about an hour before my appointment was ending so I was cutting it close but felt confident in making it. Well Dot had other plans and I got pulled in the weigh station for an inspection. After we were done and I got my paperwork, I was trying to call my dispatch to let them know that I was going to be late , late notice yikes but I really had no choice as I wasn’t going to call during inspection hahah anyways no one answers the phone and I’m on hold for 34 ish minutes at this point I’m just gonna head out. I go to my drop off about 1hr 20 mins late and boom they’re closed. Should’ve looked at the closing time, lesson learned

Hey guys I’m a new driver about a month and a week in and I messed up really bad . I was headed off the freeway towards a flying J and my gps took me into a neighborhood .I blindly followed the gps into a very small roundabout in the neighborhood and went over the little garden they have inside the roundabout. I knew it was bad but then it got worse as impulsively as I could and adrenaline filled I was I left the street back on to the Main Street and went to the flying J 3 minutes away. As I’m parking at the truck stop I noticed something was wrong and when I backed In karma hit me right back, somehow a boulder traveled with me thru the streets from the roundabout to the truck stop and parked itself in the middle of the road . I’m really confused and scared on what to do now , I’m cowardly in the corner at the truck stop writing this as I speak ….