Offer comes in this morning. Reefer load with marginal pay. Run info indicates TVAL tape but it is for freight that does not normally require TVAL service. Call to dispatch reveals that a data logger tape is requested for this non-TVAL load but there is no extra pay to provide the tape.
Message to dispatch: "It is very wrong to charge us $16 a week to have your data logger in our truck and then force us to give away the service. Please take us off this load." Dispatch agreed to our request and took us off the load.
I'm not sure if you didn't get this information, but when the change was made to the FedEx owned dataloggers, we were told that TempAssure would be giving tapes to some customers who request it without making it a Tval load. (I do believe there was quite a bit of whining -myself included- about Tval being dismantled, with everyone paying for TempAssure and getting the tape.) I notice you're not afraid of calling FedEx and asking questions, so it seems likely you would have called Tval at this time -as I did- and asked how things were changing and whether Tval was being "phased out". I was told Tval wasn't changing at all, but TempAssure was improving to compete with other carriers and to give the customers the services they were asking for without the whole Tval package.
I will not go into the differences here, but just printing a tape does not make it a Tval load- there are other differences done by both the driver and at Green.
Also, you seem to be forgetting that all reefer units now have dataloggers, and they are all paying the fee the same as the Tval trucks, without running Tval loads. I can confidently say this, as the non-tval drivers I have met have no clue how to set alarms or change the parameters.
The charge should be thought of the same as the QC units. I'm not happy that a brand new datalogger was tossed for the nearly-same unit that we rent, but it is a new "requirement".
