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Owning The Wheel * USA - The bottom 30 percent
USA -The Trucker News Services, by JOHN EWING -17 July 2009: -- When times get tough, the freight slows down and the need for drivers and owner-operators alike goes down with it. The major companies have filled acres with parked trucks and have laid off thousands of drivers and terminated the leases of many owner-operators. So how do you avoid the unemployment line? How do you insure that you will be the last truck to stop rolling?... Probably the best way to stay on top of the dispatcher’s list is to remember how the system works and to be sure the dispatcher understands your philosophy. If you’ll always remember that your job is to run miles and his job is to get you miles, you’ll go a lot further both down the road and up the list. Never argue with your dispatcher over what you perceive as a bad load; there are no bad loads, just bad dispatchers and bad drivers. That 200 mile load that delivers in two days is meant to get you from an area with no good freight to an area where there IS good freight. A good dispatcher will usually TELL you that this bad load will end with a good one, but regardless if you’re informed or not, take the load... (Photo: Final word of advice, the grass isn’t any greener on the other side of the fence)Labels: truckers' jobs
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