mad:
In case you haven't been paying any attention :
Your 1st Out's and Board Position mean absolutely nothing @ Panther" This has become evident since they started paying full DH about a year ago.
Multiple trucks with the same criteria, eg: Weight & Load Size Capacity/ License Endorsements/ Hometyme Requests/ Acceptance & On Time % / Load Hours available, etc. are NOT equal!
The CLOSEST & CHEAPEST truck will always get the next Load Offer.
Teams will also get the load before you for long runs. If you are sitting with a 1st Out for Two or Three Days, and another truck comes in, and parks next to you, that is paid $ .02 less than you, (after 5 Hours, if the next load requires a full clock) he WILL get the next load offer! (Mini's are the exception because they pay the same.)
And this will happen over & over again while you sit!
Your next Load Offer will only come when they run out of trucks running for less than your contracted amount.
Dispatchers will lie through their teeth as to why another truck got a load before you. Trying to tell you that the other truck had in for Hometyme for the Cons area, or “The Computer picks the truck”
(which they can over-ride) Or, “It was a Hazmat,” if you're not endorsed. Anything than admit the truth, until you can prove their deception. That's what they are counting on.......that you don't know the statistics of the other trucks on the Board.
But, when you're sitting in a large Truck Stop in a slow area, with say, 10 to 15 trucks in the same Parking Lot, and you're all talking to each other, (which I highly encourage) and you know the position & the stats of each truck, all the lies are exposed!
Panther is unfairly punishing it's most dependable & experienced drivers that have stayed and promoted the Company the longest for a few cents per mile. I'm more inclined to think that that's on purpose, than not!
If they discourage enough of the higher priced drivers to quit and go with another Carrier, they only have the massive number of new $.70 to $.73 drivers to pay. Looks like all that matters is the bottom line!
Panther could avoid aggravating the drivers that are at a higher rate, in the same location, with a very simple, fair solution: Maintain the Board Positions Religiously, call the next truck in sequence & explain the price difference, ask if they want to take that load @ a reduced rate. If you're in a bad area, with way too many trucks, I'm sure most drivers would take the load, just to get away. At least the driver has an option, instead of being jumped over behind his back! (I can foresee some abuse possible here, but not if all truckers are talking with one another)
I've been referring to Cargo Vans here, but I'm sure this applies to Straight & Big Trucks also.
Signed, "Had to Vent"
100% On Time
100% Acceptance
89% in Service/30 Days
Long Van 3500 with Hazmat / Single Driver
Position all Week - #1 or 1st Out (Min. Trucks on Board = 3 / Maximum = 14) (Day Average 6 or 7)
Last 7 Days – 1-Load (Mini) (Beginning of Week)
# of Cheaper Trucks, Single or Team got Load Offers since & Gone = Minimum (8) # of Load Offers I received = 0 (You can guess where I'm at)
E.M out of here.....never coming back, unless their tactics change... my answer to Panther will be: “Call a $.70 Truck”. especially when they call , crying for the “favors”, which as long as I can remember are only one way!
In “Their favor”
In case you haven't been paying any attention :
Your 1st Out's and Board Position mean absolutely nothing @ Panther" This has become evident since they started paying full DH about a year ago.
Multiple trucks with the same criteria, eg: Weight & Load Size Capacity/ License Endorsements/ Hometyme Requests/ Acceptance & On Time % / Load Hours available, etc. are NOT equal!
The CLOSEST & CHEAPEST truck will always get the next Load Offer.
Teams will also get the load before you for long runs. If you are sitting with a 1st Out for Two or Three Days, and another truck comes in, and parks next to you, that is paid $ .02 less than you, (after 5 Hours, if the next load requires a full clock) he WILL get the next load offer! (Mini's are the exception because they pay the same.)
And this will happen over & over again while you sit!
Your next Load Offer will only come when they run out of trucks running for less than your contracted amount.
Dispatchers will lie through their teeth as to why another truck got a load before you. Trying to tell you that the other truck had in for Hometyme for the Cons area, or “The Computer picks the truck”
(which they can over-ride) Or, “It was a Hazmat,” if you're not endorsed. Anything than admit the truth, until you can prove their deception. That's what they are counting on.......that you don't know the statistics of the other trucks on the Board.
But, when you're sitting in a large Truck Stop in a slow area, with say, 10 to 15 trucks in the same Parking Lot, and you're all talking to each other, (which I highly encourage) and you know the position & the stats of each truck, all the lies are exposed!
Panther is unfairly punishing it's most dependable & experienced drivers that have stayed and promoted the Company the longest for a few cents per mile. I'm more inclined to think that that's on purpose, than not!
If they discourage enough of the higher priced drivers to quit and go with another Carrier, they only have the massive number of new $.70 to $.73 drivers to pay. Looks like all that matters is the bottom line!
Panther could avoid aggravating the drivers that are at a higher rate, in the same location, with a very simple, fair solution: Maintain the Board Positions Religiously, call the next truck in sequence & explain the price difference, ask if they want to take that load @ a reduced rate. If you're in a bad area, with way too many trucks, I'm sure most drivers would take the load, just to get away. At least the driver has an option, instead of being jumped over behind his back! (I can foresee some abuse possible here, but not if all truckers are talking with one another)
I've been referring to Cargo Vans here, but I'm sure this applies to Straight & Big Trucks also.
Signed, "Had to Vent"
100% On Time
100% Acceptance
89% in Service/30 Days
Long Van 3500 with Hazmat / Single Driver
Position all Week - #1 or 1st Out (Min. Trucks on Board = 3 / Maximum = 14) (Day Average 6 or 7)
Last 7 Days – 1-Load (Mini) (Beginning of Week)
# of Cheaper Trucks, Single or Team got Load Offers since & Gone = Minimum (8) # of Load Offers I received = 0 (You can guess where I'm at)
E.M out of here.....never coming back, unless their tactics change... my answer to Panther will be: “Call a $.70 Truck”. especially when they call , crying for the “favors”, which as long as I can remember are only one way!
In “Their favor”