Comments By Mistelle

So your are told to be there 9.5 hours early? Why is that a surprise? You are a very small fish in a small pond with thousands of other drivers. Therefore unless you have been there a long time and thought of a way to make yourself stand out then you are the exact same as every other driver in that pond that does their job and deliveries their loads on time everytime.

Here is the problem though. In the past when drivers were told the real delivery time that figured they had plenty of time and waited to leave until the last minute.bone flat tire....one backed up road with traffic or any other numbers of things and the load is truly late. Not just pretend late and they open the delivery window a little wider.

What you are dealing with is the hundreds of thousands of drivers that came before you and screwed up a good thing and now we are having to pay for it.

Well that just sucks...

Another something is that dispatchers will tell little lies in the pick up and drop off times. Ours (as nice as he is) seems to think that if he tells us to be there early it will keep us from being late. The load I am on now says I am to deliver it by 5pm tomorrow. My dispatcher wants me there by 7:30 am. A bit of a difference. So, when they open tomorrow at 6am I am going to call them and ask when would they like me there. I've found that by placing myself in the schedule where the receiver wants me, I don't sit in their lots as long.

As far as my fleet managers thing, I'm not sure why he does this. We have never been late through our own actions. The truck breaking down, horribly bad road conditions, and picking up a load from another driver who was running late are the reasons we have been late.

Which bring me to another thing, why do fleet manager forget how to count? Seriously. Pick up the load on Monday but it needs to be delivered by the previous Friday. I can't travel back in time.

We have also found certain places give us upset stomachs everytime we eat there.

Umm, don't eat there?

LittleJoe

We don't anymore. The first time we thought it was because we had just come out of California. The second time, we thought it was maybe the food because we were there late at night. The last time, we figured out it was the water. I had tea and he had brought a drink in. He didn't get sick but I did. So now we don't eat there at all.

Some are horrible. I have heard them bad mouthing people on the cb and have been the object of a lot of it. But I have also heard really nice stuff.

I was trying to do a nasty tight back and I was tired. It was the last spot that was open and I had found it! BUT some other driver had parked along the side of the parking lot and was making it so that I didn't have much forward room.

Two guys got out and helped me (and I needed it!). While another sitting in his truck leaned out his window and was cussing me and calling me all sorts of names. The stress was terrible. Between being tired and being yelled at, I was having trouble with just basic movements.

Later on, I heard another driver over the CB putting that nasty one WAY down. And he wasn't alone. It made me happy that some of the guys out there were standing up for me and only one (that I know of) was being a jerk. But that one jerk makes it kind of hard.

Another something I have seen, is I keep getting mistook for a lot lizard. I laugh it off but it has made us make the rule that I don't leave the truck at night without my husband with me.

I would track down some of the more experienced drivers and ask them about driving in the winter. I have only been through one winter so I am not an expert by any means.

Another issue I am seeing is at the bottom of the page where you can type in the page number you want to skip to. It won't let me type in a number to skip to a page. And as much as I like the comments, I don't want to read them repeatedly. Lol

HOLY MOLY...the rumor mill has been swirling with reports of a raise for a month or so...but .08 cpm!!!!!!!! SWEET!

I wish my company would do one of those! We were all excited over a 2 cent raise.

We have nasty allergies when we head out west into California. We take zyrtec when we are stuck around that area.

We have also found certain places give us upset stomachs everytime we eat there.

Thanks! I will give it a try later on today. I had noticed the yellow jackets but I didn't know why they were all over the truck. Wish our company let us wash the truck more than twice a year.

Yup, yellowjackets are carnivorous scavengers. Last summer I watched one munching leftovers off my windshield. While it was having lunch, some other bug I didn't recognize landed close to it. The yellowjacket pounced on it and gobbled it up in about 2 seconds. Talk about an appetite suppressant.

We have some bugs that look like wasps in Texas that love to eat big spiders. I had one drag a spider across my porch during a picnic. The spider was gigantic! I left the porch to the two of them for about thirty minutes.

I am on my laptop and when I click on topic it allows me to have the cursor there but I can't see the words. They are there, I just can't see them.

I'm not sure where you're referring to when you say "when I click on topic"..... it sounds like an easy fix, but I'm not sure where you mean.

When you start a new topic in the general forum. It asks you to fill in the 'topic'. That's where I am seeing it.