Week 53 - The End

Week Ending 8/18/07

Loads Delivered: 1

Total Miles: 633
* Loaded: 557
* Empty: 76

Gross Pay: $279.53
* Mileage Pay: $259.53
* Accessorial: $20.00

Hours Logged: 21
* Driving: 16
* On-Duty: 5

$/Hour $12.36

Off-Duty - Not Logged: 4.5
* @ Customer: 4.5
* In Laurinburg:
* Waiting Assignment:

All Hours: 25.5

Actual $/Hour: $10.18

Deadhead: Brook Park, OH Friday, August 10, 2007
Shipper: Leetonia, OH Friday, August 10, 2007
Consignee: Sylva, NC Monday, August 13, 2007
Commodity: RR Ties

The prior week, I had two loads that that I arrived on time, only to find the customer wasn’t expecting me. I had waited almost 4 hours for a work assignment. Nothing was changing. So, over weekend I sent a macro that Friday, August 17th would be my last day with Maverick, and to plan a load that would return me to Laurinburg by that day. I planned that day because OG would be in Columbia, SC on business, so would be able to pick me up in Laurinburg when she returned home on Friday.

I was instructed to DH to LRBG when unloaded in Sylva. On way to LRBG, I received work assignment for a Canada load. I sent back macro that I had requested to be taken off all Canada loads, and it would not get me back to LRBG by Friday, as requested. The load was removed, and I heard nothing more that day.

The next morning when I asked about status of load, I was told to come into office, where Tina and a man I had never met were waiting to give me my walking papers. They never asked why I was leaving, only offered to pay for the remainder of the week, and a rental car to Knoxville. I told them that I would only need the car to Columbia, SC – a 150 mile difference – and they gave me a ComCheck to cover the cost of the rental car. On my way out, I asked the man’s name, and was surprised to find out it was Derric. I had worked for the company for a year, and didn’t know who the man was.

I returned the car in Columbia the next day, and because it crossed state lines, and same day rental I was charged by the mile – a total of $140. When I attempted to cash the ComCheck, I was told there was a $90 limit. When I received my final paycheck, it did not include any extra for the remainder of the week. But, then, that didn’t surprise me.