Week 9 - The Split

Week Ending 10/14/06

Loads Delivered: 3

Total Miles: 2955
* Loaded: 1973
* Empty: 982

Gross Pay: $1,172.45
* Mileage Pay: $1,152.45
* Accessorial: $20.00

Hours Logged: 78.25
* Driving: 63
* On-Duty: 15.25

$/Hour $14.98

Off-Duty - Not Logged: 7.75
* @ Customer: 2
* In Laurinburg: 5.75
* Waiting Assignment:

All Hours: 86

Actual $/Hour: $13.63
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Load 1:

Deadhead: Greenville, SC Friday, October 06, 2006
Shipper: Laurinburg, NC Friday, October 06, 2006
Consignee: Indianapolis, IN Sunday, October 08, 2006
Commodity: Glass

Uneventful trip and short wait in LRBG
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Load 2:

Deadhead: Indianapolis, IN Monday, October 09, 2006
Shipper: Laurinburg, NC Thursday, October 09, 110
Consignee: South Easton, MA Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Commodity: glass

Uneventful trip. I arrived at consignee the night before, but had to wait over an hour the next morning for them to unload, while they finished an in-house meeting.

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Load 3:

Deadhead: South Easton, MA Thursday, October 12, 2006
Shipper: Cinnaminson, NJ Thursday, October 12, 2006
Consignee: Church Hill, TN Friday, October 13, 2006
Commodity: glass

There are several problems with this load, that all started with incorrect mileage. To explain how I know this - Ollie’s Gal has purchased routes from Intelliroute (RandMcNally on-line). When she has time to catch up payroll, she checks the miles against those paid, and against the STAA routes (typically 7 - 10% more). The actual empty miles for this trip should have been 280 - not 155, so I arrived at the Shipper late, and sent macro with ETA at consignee 1 hour later than schedule.

When I arrived at the consignee, an hour late, they had not heard anything about a late arrival. Since no one had called to reschedule appointment, I was left to wait until they had an opening. Several hours went by, and I finally called Extended Shift to see if they could do anything to help speed up the process. I explained that I would have to do a split sleeper berth if I was to make it home that night – 1-1/2 hours away. I was told in no uncertain terms that Maverick did not allow splits, and I would have to take my 10 at the consignee's yard, even though I explained I had done many, many, many split sleeper berths just to make on-time deliveries.

I did take a 10 hour sleeper at the consignee, but have not done a split sleeper since. A couple of weeks later a macro was sent reminding drivers that split sleeper berths could be used to help extend the 14-hour day. I question why the split sleeper is OK to make an on-time delivery, but not OK to make it home.

I arrived home Saturday morning with 67 hours logged. Ollie’s Gal was having a minor surgical procedure on Tuesday, so didn’t leave again until Wednesday.

Arrive Home: Saturday, October 14, 2006, 6:00 AM
Leave Home: Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 11:30 AM
Hours Home: 101.50
Days Home: 4.23