[Turtle]

Well, with the voluntary flat-rate FSC program, if you aren't on it, don't expect much sympathy, or bonuses, if you don't like a load with a low FSC. You have to, on your own, see to it that when you take a load with a high FSC that it can also help cover loads with a low FSC. The flat-rate program evens out the FSC across all loads, and you have to do the same thing yourself if you aren't on the program. A load with a .60 FSC also lets me take one with a .20 FSC - it all evens out.

The alternative is to take strictly the loads with high FSC and turn down the ones with a low FSC, but you can end up being passed over for otherwise good paying loads, and/or with things like 2 loads in the last 13 days.


In any case, it depends on how you asked for it, but if you asked for a bonus and they said they'd get back to you, and instead of getting back to you they simply assumed that you would refuse it and went ahead and marked you down for a refusal without you actually refusing it, I'd be all over over Driver Relations with that one to get the refusal removed.

If you made the acceptance in any way, shape or form conditional of the bonus, like, "Yeah, I'll run it, if you can get me $200 bonus for fuel," or, "Give me $200 and I'll run it," then unless they decide to give you the bonus money, that's a refusal.


If I were sitting in El Paso, especially 4th of July Week, and were offered a 1000 mile trip, the question I'd be asking is not "Can I get fuel bonus money," but "What's it worth to me to get out of El Paso without having to deadhead the whole way on my own dime?"