Man, I Am Terrible At This :(

Don't get me wrong, dispatch didn't instruct me to drive over my hours, that was my idea, because I didn't want a late load. I just called dispatch to run it by them to see what the ramifications would have been.

Like I said, I don't run over my hours. I know the value of protecting my cdl and the ramifications of what happens if I have an incident while driving over hours. At the same time, in this case, I was trying to avoid another late load.

Sure, it may or may not have been my fault, I ran as best I could, but, when you have a driver that has several late loads like this, they tend to look at the driver as the problem.

I agree that all newcomers shouldn't view this as a norm. It's never a good thing if you have to bend the dot rules. Protect that cdl, it belongs to you, not the company you drive for, it is your livelyhood. If you find a company that asks you to break the rules, then you have a choice. If you have experience and a clean record, you can move on to another company, but don't ever let a company force you into doing something that is either unsafe, or will cause your cdl to be in jeopardy.

If you get several loads like that which are either impossible or barely possible to get to final on time, you need to document on the Qualcomm that they are very tight or impossible, and provide realistic ETA's on macros.

Don't let yourself become the driver that the DM pr planer starts shoveling all the tihs loads on, because they know you will bust your ttub to do them, and not call them on the bogus ETA's. Seriously, don't just do illegal runs to make yourself look better. That's a recipe for being thrown under the bus, because whoever is setting those ETA's, when they are called into the office about their late load percentages, will point at you and say "It's late because he didn't tell me he wouldn't make On Time Delivery."

On the other hand, if the Qualcomm conversations go well, run safe and legal as hard as you can, and you should still get good miles, without needing to worry about being thrown under the bus.

If anyone gets upset at you documenting roopssip ETAs on the Qualcomm, then you need to talk to their supervisor. It's not your responsibility to perform miracle deliveries. It's your responsibility to perform On Time Deliveries which were scheduled sanely.

Geez, if youre gonna curse backwards, please spell correctly. I think I have an attitude problem with nite and weekend dispatchers. I better get that in check.

Ops! Sorry, had my glasses on backwards!