{"id":18852,"date":"2025-02-20T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/we-need-your-help-but-no-help-for-you-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T05:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:43:03","slug":"we-need-your-help-but-no-help-for-you-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/we-need-your-help-but-no-help-for-you-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We need your help! But no help for you!&#8221; | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;d think I&#8217;ve been driving long enough to know whether or not this is normal, but I find this quite odd.<\/p>\n<p>My company now has a history of getting me home late. They always have the same excuses, no freight going to my area, no load available, no one available to t-call the load, etc. Ok, well fine.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward almost 2 years I&#8217;ve been working here, and I&#8217;ve noticed how many times, and in how many really ODD PLACES, in the middle of nowhere, I&#8217;ve been asked to t-call a load to help a driver get home. I literally drove over 120 miles through 2 lane back roads of rural MS just to get a guys trailer so he could go home. But I live right off the I-10 corridor, halfway between two of our terminals, and they have NEVER had anyone to t-call my load so I could go home. I just get home 1, 2 or 3 days late.<\/p>\n<p>My DM denied that this is happening, and then when I needed someone to take my load and she said nobody was available, I immediately reminded her that this is what I&#8217;m talking about. I wound up having to deliver the load a day late because I had no drive time left, and was thus not eligible for detention pay because you don&#8217;t get it if the load is late. (even though they told me 3 times they were going to t-call the load but never did) I don&#8217;t mind helping people to get home, I enjoy it, but when it&#8217;s my turn I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s asking too much to have another driver take my load so I can go home. Or&#8230;.take my load so I don&#8217;t get stuck delivering it late and thus sit all day unpaid because no detention on late loads.<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys feel this is normal? Normal meaning normal that I&#8217;m expected to drop my loads on a whim, sometimes giving up 1000 or more miles, to help a driver to get home but when I need the help, it&#8217;s just not there? And this latest guy I helped lives 450 miles from our nearest terminal, I live 210 from our nearest.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/we-need-your-help-but-no-help-for-you.2520984\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think I&#8217;ve been driving long enough to know whether or not this is normal, but I find this quite odd. My company now has a history of getting me home late. They always have the same excuses, no freight going to my area, no load available, no one available to t-call the load, etc&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}