Wednesday, October 29, 2008

This week is even worse than last week as far as making money. I got stuck with going to Canada and got no miles out of it. As far the ability for my company to get the customs paper work done, it is ridiculously inadequate. I sat at the border for 10hrs waiting on it. By the time they got it done the load was late, the customer was closed and I was pissed. And all this for a 80 some mile load? I think I made a total of $50 over 2 days on it. WTF!! This has happened more times than not. We are allowed to opt out of going to Canada and about 80% of our driver do. If they could only get their act togeather it might be worth it. But soon I will be able to opt out myself now that December is coming.

Right now I am sitting at the truck stop in Buffalo have been sitting here all day, waiting on another load. A little frustrating considering my home is 20min away. I almost just want to go home. I have enough time saved up that I could take off all the way until the 10th when Asher leaves, but then I would have no money instead of the little bit of money I have been making out here lately. My company kinda offered me a dedicated run out of the Buffalo area. A guaranteed 2200-2500 miles a week plus some extra pay for going back and forth over the Canada border and multi stop pay. I am seriously thinking about going for it after these two weeks.

I guess the most frustrating thing about this job is you never know how much your pay check is going to be. And it seems like it is totally random, if you have a good week or a bad one. I think i have been just to laid back with my driver manager. I am just going to have to put some pressure on her from now on like everyone else. Well thats all i got for now.

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