The Mystery Continues

In case you missed the update in Transitions:

Did you know it’s against the Truth in Leasing Act from the FMCSA (DOT), CFR 49, 376.12 (g)  for a company NOT  to show their driver the proof of how much a load pays if that driver is getting paid by percentage? The problem is that most drivers won’t rock the boat because they want the job, so a lot of these companies get away with whatever they want.

Why would Clark Transfer take a load to lose money on that moves me in the opposite direction?  That’s the mystery.  I can understand taking something that goes in the right direction, it’s done all the time.

After being ganged up on by three dispatchers for asking a question and their response was so defensive you would have thought they had their hand caught in the cookie jar. After being told I was the only driver that questioned their generosity and how I didn’t trust them (you don’t establish trust with someone by just saying “trust me”, especially where money is involved, but maybe that’s just me) and how they didn’t want drivers to know what goes on in the office (?) and how they deal with their customers. I think I was shown the number of what this load paid. If that was it, these people at Clark Transfer are idiots.

This is a whole lot different than having a real open office where money wasn’t hidden. I could ask my boss what anyone or any driver made and he would not only answer it, but showed it to me. Having my dispatchers email and working with them as a team instead of for them as an employee or worse.

The whole thing was just odd. Why so defensive about something so simple and why take a load that after paying me and 200 miles of the PA turnpike, then for me to go empty 600 miles (and paid a little), why take a stupid load like that in the first place? This is not a stupid company, they’ve been in business since 1959, Clark Transfer concentrates on the office making money, that’s what’s so odd about this. They didn’t do me any favors, I could have made the same and they would have paid less for me to just sit there, why?

I was ready to just be fired right there, but that’s not how trucking companies operate. My planning report has one good load on it, if you want to call a buck a mile a good load so if that changes… I’m sure they’re going to take it personally, pout and get back at me for having the audacity for questioning their benevolence and their unquestioned obedience by everyone else. It’s already coming up on the “bad” season, so how much worse can it get at Clark Transfer?