Imail jb hunt6/14/2023 ![]() ![]() The exhaustive strain of the industry in its entirety Navigating quality of life, compensation, and efficient operations. Impractical compensation relative to runs. Hence, the almost too true signing bonus or weekly guarantees. The revolving door of drivers has been incorporated into most fleet operations. It is the various accounts and/or different terminal operations. What is the most stressful part about working at the company? Resource network of informative and beneficial safety compliance documentation/material. What is the best part of working at the company? ![]() Also, the maintenance department is terribly slow. Why you may ask? Because they have as bad of driver turn over as most other large trucking companies and want documentation to fight unemployment claims when they inevitably arise. and reprimand and write you up for as many infractions as possible. What they will do is monitor your miles per week, your engine idle time, your hard braking occurrences, etc. If the directions do not lead to the customer - you are on your own. If you are having a problem with a load, you are on your own. I tried doing so, but mysteriously, that supervisor was unavailable for several weeks, then replaced and by the time I got a meeting, I had been shuffled off on another driver manager.Īs a driver your only point of contact with the company (other than the maintenance department for breakdown and truck repairs - I think I averaged about 1 a week) is the driver manager - not to be confused with other companies and the dispatcher position. They advised to take it over the supervisors head. All laughed at desired quotas, all admitted they were impractical, adding they rarely met them and surely not regularly or at a minimum. ![]() I took the sheet to the drivers lounge and asked a group of 4 drivers to give it a look and let me know what they thought. I was forced to sign a paper stating production marks higher than status quo or be terminated, and if I failed to achieve those higher production marks, I would be fired. ![]()
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