Greg, with an EOBR you can't just plug in your second and in some cases third EOBR and run that next load. The guys you hear most loudly crying foul are likely the guys running 3 logbooks, perhaps running as an outside carrier team when in fact it is one guy.
I won't comment on what the Fed does internally, but I can say they will use outside carriers at a higher price than what they pay their own contractors. Took some awhile to finally realize that. The wonderful world of information sharing.
On a side note, they aren't the only carrier that engages in that practice.
I have conjunctivitis in my left testicle. Is that even possible? Anyway I'm home for the Holiday.Del my load 8 hrs early heading to Load 1 yard...time to go south from there...
The fact that CC or any carrier will use an outside carrier & pay more money to cover a load instead of offering the CC driver more money is just INSANE! but yet it continues to happen.
I sure do love Landstar! (In case anyone is interested.)
Without a doubt, some of those guys are out there, but it's the carrier that knowingly dispatches them with patently unsafe offers that need to be held accountable, wouldn't you say?
Yes, I too am being forced to leave the intrusive Fedex Custom Critical for another carrier.
Despite approximately two years in the White Glove division and, by far, the highest earnings I have experienced in this industry, I'm leaving because of having that little blue Ex on my shirts (above the breast pocket) changed to red!
It's either that or pay someone to stitch red thread over the blue in order to comply (or buy new shirts!!).
Doesn't sound like a very good business decision over some shirts. Perhaps there are more and hugely larger issues as well as this tiny one.
Actually, Leo, I was trying to be just a little facetious here.
Ohhhhhhh, well there's the problem. You left off the or the or the or the so we'd know you were facetious.
Can you loan Moot some of those scivvies?
He claims swollen tear ducts in his nether regions.
Just thought I would help.
No, I wouldn't say, unless you meant but left out jointly and even then to a lesser degree.
Sorry, it seemed to go without saying that the driver will be held accountable.
But the dispatcher who offers a load with full knowledge that the driver isn't rested, but will do it anyhow because he needs the money, or dispatch needs him to cover the load, or just because he always does, is equally guilty. But they are not held responsible for their actions.
Ultimately and primarily the accountability lies with the guy who is drawing lines in 2 or more logbooks. He/she is the one responsible for turning the key and rolling again. I don't have the reference but I think it was about 2 years ago, after having an accident, a driver was found in possession of 4 logbooks.
I can find references to drunk drivers actually killing innocent people every day - dozens of them, but nobody is even considering putting a Breathalyzer on every 4 wheeler, are they?
Additionally, I pointed out the guys who are running as outside carriers for several companies. There's no way Co. X knows the guy finished a 500 miler just 4 hours earlier for Co. Y. It's nice to try to shift responsibility off individuals to companies but that's just often not feasible even if it does seem common lately.