OTR DRIVER NEEDED

Just fired a driver for abusing my business credit card. Anyone interested in driving Midwest and South regions? We are based out of WI and you will be home every weekend. Thanks, Bill

Wish I still could. I still have my Class A CDL but my doctor would probably have a cow plus I do not think due to that I could pass the DOT physical

Was he the one with the blowed turbo?

No, He drives an identical truck though. The funniest part of the story is that there were a bunch of cherges on the CC to a company I never heard of. I called them up and asked "what type of business are you?". They said they were an online dating service. I told them to change his occupation on his profile from truck driver to UNEMPLOYED.

Funny, I just had my DOT physical today and passed. But I don"t need a driving job.I have my 1.75 million miles behind me.Jim

Too bad yer so far away. My Son IN Law has been driving for a small time company leased to Midnight. He's looking at changing jobs as his boss wants to down size.

Rick

Hope my son doesn't find out. It has been like herding cats to keep him from quitting college to try farming or truck driving. 4 years in the Navy behind him and 3 1/2 years of college completed.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Good luck, Gene

Only if i pull and RGN and i take the truck HOME , oh one other SMALL little thing here i only drive Binders , must have 550 Hp or better 13-18 speed don't need desert gears 3.90 are good not a super speed demon but i do like to go up hill as fast as i do on the flats. and i treat the truck as if it was mine . And old timer told me many years ago NO RUNNY NO MONEY . So if truck no run i don't make money . Some guys don't understand company money is company money not theres.

Best get back on board ya still got a bit of catch up i quit counting after 3 mill. yea that is what i have driven .

did not renew my class a's last after i retired. couldn't pass dot physical anyway.

IH 9400's with ISX cummins and 10 speeds. 72" sleepers. Also two volvos with 12.7 detroits.

you sound like a real truck stop cowboy Tractor vet.After reading your post you would never set foot in my office let alone one of my trucks

Should of got yourself a date, Beeing you was the one paying the bill. lol.

Thanks anyway but I think I will keep my home every night job.
If I do take a weekend extra run out of town I sleep in the motel because all our trucks have windows in the back.
Trucks are not very fast (65) but when you make enough per mile that does not really matter does it.

i can't say i drove over 3 mil but i can say i have rode over 3 mil with my grandfather he drove 65 years i got in on the last 27 of those years

My wife used to work for a dispatch outfit. From what I gathered, most guys that drive truck got into the buisness cuz they got fired from every other job they had. In the truck you are alone with nobody watching over you. The most lamest excuses still get you by, cuz the boss can't prove otherwise.
My neighbor drives truck too. He switches companies about every 2 years. That is about the average amount of time he can slide before the boss gets sick of him. He always quits before he gets fired. He finds another job right away cuz everyone needs drivers.

Ha,
I drove OTR for a couple years back in the mid 80s.
I have been fired twice in my life.
Both times it was an OTR truck driving job.
I guess I wasn't well suited for the work
Lesson learned.
I still keep my class A license though.
Dunno why. Maybe just because.

(quoted from post at 01:33:13 01/12/13) My wife used to work for a dispatch outfit. From what I gathered, most guys that drive truck got into the buisness cuz they got fired from every other job they had. In the truck you are alone with nobody watching over you. The most lamest excuses still get you by, cuz the boss can't prove otherwise.
My neighbor drives truck too. He switches companies about every 2 years. That is about the average amount of time he can slide before the boss gets sick of him. He always quits before he gets fired. He finds another job right away cuz everyone needs drivers.

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To tell you the truth Nathan, I think you're probably a bit biased there.

37 years of driving and I was never fired once. I've had a few companies turn belly up causing me to seek a new situation, but mostly if I left a company it was due to a low life, lying, weasel of a dispatcher. I'm certainly not referring to your wife, but most every time we had a woman dispatcher, it was going to go horribly wrong. Sooner or later they were fooling around with a driver, then they'd get dumped and start crapping on every driver they could for revenge.

In general, I've found dispatchers to be just a notch below used car salesmen and politicians, and just barely a notch above drug dealers.

Nope not at all i have a vary good driving record and darn proud of it there are not many of us that can haul the big ugly stuff and get it where it is going with out damage to the load or to everyone around you . And i seriously that you could handle the job let lone handle a high Hp. truck with a couple hundred thousand setting on it . And i doubut that you could even run with me as few have.

(quoted from post at 01:33:13 01/12/13) My wife used to work for a dispatch outfit. From what I gathered, most guys that drive truck got into the buisness cuz they got fired from every other job they had. In the truck you are alone with nobody watching over you. The most lamest excuses still get you by, cuz the boss can't prove otherwise.
My neighbor drives truck too. He switches companies about every 2 years. That is about the average amount of time he can slide before the boss gets sick of him. He always quits before he gets fired. He finds another job right away cuz everyone needs drivers.

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That's funny, my SIL, also a Nathan, has had many problems with dispatchers giving him loads with impossible delivery times. He pick up one load going from Fargo to TX. was supposed to be at the dock to unload about 15 hours from the time he picked the trailer up at the dispatch office. All because of a dispatcher error. Then the dispatcher lost his cool when the truck ate an alternator close to Watertown SD. Now here is the good part. The dispatcher tried telling him that he could make TX without an alternator! He has driven for 3 different companies. 1st one failed. 2nd one decided to get rid of company drivers and only lease and the guy he's driving for now has had the guys wife doing the office work. She thinks it's too much of a burden. Guy has been trying to grow and has had a lot of drivers that left a lot to be desired. But he now has decided to down size and was only going to keep 2 trucks with my SIL as one driver. But the SIL is afraid that he is going to let his wife talk him into just going as an owner op and let the other truck go. SIL like his boss and would like to stay there but he has a wife and daughter to think about.

Rick

What is the pay scale?

When ihad my own truck after i left the one company due to lack of work as it was not only me that left but 80% of the owner operators left , i went to hauling for several different companys . I hauled road salt and CFC salt to feed mills in western Ohio all the way out to Iowa and Mo. and everyplace in between and the dispatcher was a WOMAN . The salt payed vary well back in the late 70's and back then it was over 2 bucks a mile . BUT the big problem was it was a one way haul. So i started looking for something coming back this way that would fit in a dump trailer. I got hooked up with Chem Haulers and i hauled stainless steel scrap back to Pittsburg from either St.Louise or Chicago and here again the dispatcher was a WOMAN , then oneday out of the blue i get a call from a Woman in Indiana and she wants me to haul sand rock from ohio to Lagro IN. for them . after a long talk about rate we come to and agreement and i am hauling stone for a Woman .Chem haulers had a LOT of women dispatcher and i never had a problem with any of them . Trucking got real bad back in 83 and i decided to get out while i still had a couple bucks left. When i went back to driven in 02 i had a lot of problems with the dispatcher as i would leave with a load and when i got the load off each time when i called him i would get go to the closest truck stop and i'll find ya something and i would set and wait and wait and wait . Then he would send me after a load that was not there . After running to Ok. with a load and getting it off and setting for two days he sends me to Ft. Smith Ar. after a load that was never there in the first place , that is when the owner and i had a real mothern session . From that day on i would give the dispatcher one chance to load me and when he said ah go to a i would hang up on him and find me a load going back the way i came and each time i found a load it was from a WOMAN dispatcher and each time it was a excellent paying oversized going back towards home . AND i also know about imposable loads and heard it all before the old WELL IT IS ONLY THIS FAR ON THE MAP . and it should only take you three hours to go there . Yea IF i had a jet . What took you so long you should have been there hours ago . Why are you setting it is not snowing that bad here as your looking out the window of the truck and ya can't see the grab handle on the hood. for the snow that is coming down.First off dispatchers are idiots they have no clue as to the load , how long it takes to load or road conditions break downs traffic setting waiting to load or waiting to unload . I think that is why i like the dump biz. and the RGN work so well Loading a load on a dump trailer is usually fast and unloading is usually fast , sometimes you have to press the issue . RGN loads are great 99% of the time as they are waitng on you and when you get there you either break the trailer down and DRIVE the load on or there is a crane or large forklift setting the load on you ,99% of the time they will help you with the tarpping of the load or atleast set the big tarps up[ on the load for you . Sometimes they will even help you chain down. when you get where your going they are waiting for you and are ready to go to work of getting the load off . They give you a hand gathering up your chains and binder and help with the big tarps . Nothing like what you get when you pull a box or flat bed.

HUH????

ya your probably right my trailer is only 220 foot long and has up yo 84 tires on it no wrecks or tickets in 35 years well past 3 million mark no brag just fact and your braggin you are a wanna be ,just reread all of your post phony

TV first of all, I got the message that you had no problem with women dispatchers. I guess that's understandable. I didn't say they were all bad, I just said they had their own special problems.

I find it hard to believe that after getting out of the business for 19 years you'd fall right back into the same old traps that drove you out in '83. I'm amazed that you'd sit for days running your own equipment and cool your heels for no pay. Did you park at such a poor truck stop that they had no load board with a direct connect phone for you to line up a load? After the first time you got burned you actually rolled on a load from that dispatcher without first calling the shipper for directions and a confirmation of load time? Any O/O who would sit still for that kind of abuse deserves to be driven out of business, and should expect to drive only binders. But if I were to hire you, you'd be running an old 238 cummins 'cause they idle for days on end cheaper than today's engines.

After 1 year on the road you were still being brow beaten by dispatchers over delivery miles / times, road conditions, undocumented load times?

Sorry TV, but I've sat next to you a thousand times in truck stops. I've heard these stories from you when I pull in for supper, and 8 hours later when I get up for breakfast you're still sitting there running the same miles over and over while the rest of the drivers wipe their mouth's and head down the road.

238 Cummins?Never heard of that one.238 Detroit 6 71,yeah.

(quoted from post at 17:12:56 01/12/13) 238 Cummins?Never heard of that one.238 Detroit 6 71,yeah.

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And you're absolutely right. Typing faster than I can think and I type slow.

Thanx.

Binder with RGN,17"wide.

No when i went back on the road i was driving for a guy that had three trucks . The guy we had for a dispatcher was a total idiot . The girls i called were dispatchers with good companys ,like land star, ats and some others . No i did not set in truck stops just that one time as i sat for three days waiting for a load that never happened . and i was NOT setting till the following week . I did some hauling for this one company that was as i called it a trip lease load but we don't use them words these days and two weeks later i was back to haul another load out of this company that was about fifty miles from the barn. while i was waiting while they loaded another truck i got talking to the shipper , another FEMALE and she was telling me that she was glad that i had come for the laod as they were having problems getting there equipment hauled . we talked for about a half hour and when i was done and a call to the boss we had the contract to haul ALL and we could load ourselfs 24-7 as they would have what was going where setting in and area with paper work in the cabs . at the time we had the one RGn that i was pulling one step deck and one 50 ton lowboy and two flats and two box vans. in two months i had a new 40 ton RGN with outriggers and a third flip. I was taking one piece down to Baltimore when i saw a 99 I H 9400 setting at a dealers lot that was all set up for pulling a RGN and told the boss it was setting at our lot by friday and a second new RGN was bought . Then we got a call from a place that build tire presses and every other week i would haul a new tire press down to Wilson N. C. and after the fifth load of presses we got hooked into Keen and hauled new Cat loader and skidsteers out of the two plants down there to dealers east of the Mississippi . That made for and excellent week . and maybe take a short hop with a Grade all. It took two days on the tire presses to make the haul and get it setting at the plant and about and hour and ahalf to get it backed in and down the row of presses to where they could lift it off as there was limited room . The reason that we got the cal as told by the big man Paul at Firestone in Wilson is that the first tree presses that were hauled BEFORE i took my first one down was that all three were damaged in transit . On the first one that i took down before they even thought about taking it off the trailer we had to remove the tarps and they inspected it from top to bottom . I did not know Paul at the time as there were a bunch of people in white shirts with cameras taking pictures and climbing all over it loking . when this guy comes up to me and said there is no damage . well i hope not . Then he tells me that the other three had shiver damage to the tops and the control boxes . Then he asked me IF i could possibly back it in the building i told him that i could , he says the doors are only 12 feet the load was 11 foot and 11 3/4inch wide . I put 52 presses into that building over two years with out a mark on any of them . Those presses were ugly to haul they were vary top heavy and setting on the trailer at ride height they were 14.4 tall 11-113/4 wide with out the tarps and weight was a shade over 68000 lbs. That was pretty good money for that haul as drivers wages were just shy of 2500 . . No i was not a truck stop rat , if iwas in a truck stop it was for something to eat then sleep and i was gone just as soon as i could pull out due to permit restrictions as depending on how heavy how high and how wide you were you had to play by the rules if you were over 10 fot then you could not be within a major city area at certain times some states you had to be off the road before sunset and some a half hour after and some states if you had the correct marker lights on the load you could run all night No you never sat next to me that is one thing for sure . Maybe before i sold my truck back when it was fun and the old boys were still on the road where you knew just about everybody . Today it is changed somuch . Today your on your own not like back in the good old days if you had a problem on the road before you could get your flasher on there were four or five trucks pulling in behind you to help , no matter where you went you would run into somebody you knew . Back then yea we would stop with the guys and we would set and B/S for and hour or so or you would make a new friend along the way and ya would stop for a coffee and something to eat. Back then i did not have to worry about curfew i only had to worry about getting nailed for overload.

NASA!?!?

(quoted from post at 02:33:45 01/13/13) Binder with RGN,17"wide.

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Area 51...?

Agree with you 100%. An owner/ operator for 27 years and always heard the same old stories. While the drivers were eating and complaining I was a couuple hundred miles down the road.

She was the book keeper not a dispatcher.