Profile For M M.

My gut feeling tells me you are confused.

Are you an over the road driver? I have no idea how time off works for a local driver.

So, im home for 34 hour breaks and I drive the eastern half of the US. The boss says we aren't guaranteed days off. So, for example, even though I get a 34 hour break every week, I still use a full 7 days of pto for 7 days off, plus pto if I have to request a day off, even if it is on the day of the 34 hour break, because it isnt guaranteed. Rarely the 34 hour breaks are on different days, but the dispatch can decide whenever you get your 34 hour breaks.

Frankly, I'm so confused by all of it

If you have to use PTO time to request specific days off, I'm curious how much PTO time your company is giving their drivers each year?

We get about 7 days a year

I don't see anything in that message indicating that you have to use your PTO for a day off.

When I went and asked questions about it my boss told me that I would have to request the days off using pto. That was separate from the message.

My boss sent a message to all the drivers and I was wondering if this is how this normally works.

"To all drivers: As a company that has an 8 day 70 hour clock we cannot have specific guaranteed days off. We do our best to get you home part or all of the weekend and try to work around all the life events that happen, but I just want to make sure we are all on the same page. If you need a certain day off, please put a request in."

So, what the situation is turning into is that if there is ever a day you need off, for anything, you have to use pto for that day. Another example being if you take a week off, you use 7 days of pto, even if it is the days you would normally have off. I'm new to this industry and this is all just confusing to me and I wanted to make sure I was understanding this.