First load with this company, yesterday I wake up at 8am still waiting for a load. At 3pm they give me a load delivery the next day at 7am to the Bronx. This is my first solo run back in trucking since I haven’t driven in 2 years. I say I’m not comfortable doing NYC yet. They tell me if I don’t take it, I won’t get a load until Monday. I say okay, I drive until 11pm that night and was exhausted, had 6 hours left on drive time. I go to sleep and they start bitching at me that I could of made it last night.
I’m not a night driver, I’m not going to be up for 24 hours straight driving a loaded 18 wheeler in nyc. I should of just stayed home until Monday if this is how it was going to be. Depending on next load I may quit. I took the job being promised the world. 1600$ a week and home full weekends. I should of known better, it’s a small company.
I guess I just want to vent, I’m so tired of being expected to be a machine and never sleep or flip flop my sleep schedule with zero notice. I run hard, but I can’t and won’t risk driving tired.
Am I just lazy and not doing what needs to be done? I’m so fusterated, I want to work hard and earn a dollar. But not kill myself doing it, 5 minutes until my 10 hour is up, sitting on a on-ramp because parking was full. Starting to remember why I stopped driving. Local garbage company is hiring drivers, may just do that man….
They also called me 7 hours into my 10 while I was sleeping, asking when I would be at my delivery. Going to start putting phone on do not disturb.
