Wasted Hours

Y'all -- I just love this forum!! Thank you so much for all the great guidance, and information. After reading and reviewing the material that has been mentioned, we hope to have some insight as to how to get through this in a positive way.

murderspolywog -- your comment about slowdown after New Years kinda scares me, we are already hurting for miles.

CS -- thank you for your message, I will email you directly.

Something to consider. Swift Dedicated throughout the course of a year, depending on how busy specific accounts are, will pull OTR drivers off the road and temporarily assign them to a dedicated account as a surge driver. If your lack of mileage becomes too low, could be a fallback option to keep you running. Although not all of the dedicated contracts require surge help, many of them do. Ask your DM about this. Feel free to PM me if he or she is of no help.

Many times what will happen; if a surge driver likes the temporary assignment they can request a permanent transfer. That's how it went down for me.

MJ. J. Bumped this to the top...things got a bit silly. Want to make sure you see this without wading through the humor diversion.

got it! thanks!

If I need a empty I will check in the area to see if there is customers that we deliver to if there is I will check them if they don't have a empty I just bobtail to my pickup... Sure we are not suppose to but I'm not going to lose money cuz I can't find a empty....

Just remember when your in the truck stop sitting at the bar eating or drinking coffee and you happen to slip with gas, just make sure you can fit it into gassing on it and all will be well. lol

Just remember when your in the truck stop sitting at the bar eating or drinking coffee and you happen to slip with gas, just make sure you can fit it into gassing on it and all will be well. lol

Grrrr! >:(

*pout*

Just remember when your in the truck stop sitting at the bar eating or drinking coffee and you happen to slip with gas, just make sure you can fit it into gassing on it and all will be well. lol

Grrrr! >:(

*pout*

Eating something that was previously rolling on the "wheel of death" for 7 hours will do that to you...

Just remember when your in the truck stop sitting at the bar eating or drinking coffee and you happen to slip with gas, just make sure you can fit it into gassing on it and all will be well. lol

Grrrr! >:(

*pout*

Eating something that was previously rolling on the "wheel of death" for 7 hours will do that to you...

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Watch out for the chicken as well. Gets me more often then the hotdogs .

UPDATE: husband completed his 34 hour reset at 9p last night, as of 8a this morning he was told that loads are slow, but they are looking for something for him to pull. Meanwhile, husband speaks to a buddy that went through school with him, who works out of a different terminal. This buddy has been on home time (same geographical area as where my husband completed his 34 hour reset) since Wednesday, but has 2 loads waiting for him when he goes back on duty tomorrow. Common sense says this is most likely an issue with the terminal personnel.

Again, I am adult enough to know that every company has their issues, and just because we are experiencing logistical issues with a few doesn't mean the whole company is bad. We just need to know how to resolve this quickly ... it has really put us in a financial bind.

This buddy has been on home time (same geographical area as where my husband completed his 34 hour reset) since Wednesday, but has 2 loads waiting for him when he goes back on duty tomorrow. Common sense says this is most likely an issue with the terminal personnel.

For one, just one driver is not enough of a sample size to go by. And it sounds odd to me that he has two loads waiting on him? Does that mean he has two loads back-to-back? Or does he have his choice between two loads?

And what do you mean by "same geographic region"? Within 10 miles? Within 250 miles? Companies will only deadhead drivers a certain distance to get loads so that matters quite a bit.

I would keep trying to state your case but this time of year is going to be tough. Things are just slow for a lot of companies right now.

Definitely try to get a bigger sample size. Talk around to more drivers and see what they're saying.

This buddy has been on home time (same geographical area as where my husband completed his 34 hour reset) since Wednesday, but has 2 loads waiting for him when he goes back on duty tomorrow. Common sense says this is most likely an issue with the terminal personnel.

For one, just one driver is not enough of a sample size to go by. And it sounds odd to me that he has two loads waiting on him? Does that mean he has two loads back-to-back? Or does he have his choice between two loads?

And what do you mean by "same geographic region"? Within 10 miles? Within 250 miles? Companies will only deadhead drivers a certain distance to get loads so that matters quite a bit.

I would keep trying to state your case but this time of year is going to be tough. Things are just slow for a lot of companies right now.

Definitely try to get a bigger sample size. Talk around to more drivers and see what they're saying.

This is exactly what I was looking for ... perspective. Working to discern what is a learning curve on our end vs something we just need to work through. I have been reading a lot on how to manage the clock better, which I believe might help. Also we are going to implement the words of wisdom concerning trailer hunting to see if that will help too.

Working out the kinks ...