Profile For Sam C.

Its been a while since I posted on here but I wanted to check if what I want to do was smart trucking or career suicide. For the last year I have been with a guaranteed pay company and I love it. I have been forced to break the rules of trucking a few times and drive when I was out of hours. For each of these instances I have taken pictures of my qualcomm and wrote down the dates and times just incase. I feel that at this point I should be able to tell my superiors No when they call me and tell me I have to go get this load when I have no hours left. Ive tried to get them to message me on my qualcomm and tell me I had too but they always call after I send the message stating Im out of hours. Ive even thought about recording the phone calls. NowI feel stuck, do I continue to break the rules and put my career at risk or do I tell them no and put my job at risk? BTW, these arent a few min here and there instances. I have driven over 2 hours to get a load and my superiors have adjusted my clock to make it look like I wasnt driving. The biggest overdrive was when my qualcomm went out and they used it to there advantage to get a load cross country asap. Drove 18 hours in 1 day.

Got the job, as long as I don't screw up the road test or physical. Now I have to figure out how to get my fm to send me back home next week for a few hours from Oregon to Ohio. Literally just came off home time Monday and the load I'm on now doesn't deliver until Sunday.

W2 it's a company position. I will be a employee

Sorry, was on my home time and took my son to see monster jam. It's a car hauler position, miles are up to me. Self dispatch daily, first come first serve. Most are around the 200-300 mile range to delivery, up to the driver if he wants to pick up another load to bring back or to dead head home. Not paid for empty miles. People who dead head back do so they can go home every night, not really enough time to unload and then reload then get back so if you are stuck on the road they cover the hotel. Guy who I met who told me about the place made over 90k last year and went home every weekend. Sign me up. 9$ per car loaded and unloaded, 40$ per stop, and close to home.

Just excited for the job interview I had today. Keeping fingers and toes crossed for this one. $1.26 cpm day cab, home every weekend, no nights in the truck, holiday pay, and company paid insurance. 10 months of otr and Im ready to be home more and make better money. Ive made some great contacts on the road, one of which who set me up for this job.

Have to get x-rays and blood work done ASAP without taking time off

Time required for pre and post trip inspections is based on your company, it's not referenced in the fmcsr book. What is to be inspected is, so it should be a reasonable amount of time.

Post trip driver vehicle inspection reports are in the fmcsr, but it's worded such that it only requires reporting of defects that were discovered. So during the pretrip inspection or operation of the vehicle sounds like they would cover that...

Prime's policy is to log 15 min for EITHER a pre or post trip inspection, but not both. I log pretrip and don't log post trips. I do a quick walk around of the truck/trailer post trip.

I've never heard of one of our drivers getting busted for this.

I have never logged pretrip time. I wasn't even trained to log it nor was it ever mentioned in class.

You can always do what I did with prime. I was a company driver, kept all my trip documents and pay stubs. Went through them all and wrote down every mile they didn't pay me and sent an email to Stan Larsen stating that I wanted out of the contract and that the miles they shorted me was far more than the money owed for training. Contract negated

Sorry worst thing is missing my loved ones

That's for people with a family. Everyone suffers the waiting game

The waiting game! You would think trucking companies would push shippers and receivers to be more realistic about times. Instead they simply schedule everybody for the same time and it's just a sit and wait game for your number to be called. I am sitting outside the NJ port. When I rolled up at 7am, I swear there were at least a hundred trucks already waiting, and we all have the same 9am appointment. The lot is full, the road is full, and people are still coming. This is my first time here so who with experience can give me a realistic time that I might get out for a delmonte load?