When you have that many trucks you're going to have a bad apple here or there, and a couple of those can have an effect on your score. If you have a couple guys who get hit for silly form and manner stuff that can add up and give you a bad score on HOS. Then the whole thing with warnings still counting against you.
As to trucks sitting: At any time you can have a truck or two sit for a bit. It happens with any company and there are any manner of reasons that can lead to a truck sitting for a bit. The driver takes a load to a bad area, or the driver has an "I don't wanna" list a mile long and won't go here and won't go there. We're not nearly the size of Load 1 but I can tell you week in and week out that certain of our trucks are going to run better than others and most of the time it's going to be some of the same guys getting more miles. Those are usually the drivers who don't have an "I don't wanna" list. If you sit there and tell dispatch a huge list of areas you won't go or sit there and always say you need to go in a certain direction, you're going to possibly limit your options.
I don't know if that's the case, but I'd guess there's more to it than the safety rating.
