Little back story here, when I start my day I usually have to get an empty trailer and go pick up a load.

The way it’s ran there are usually more loaded trailers than empties on the yard and we don’t have designated areas for loaded or empties so they’re everywhere and you have to check if there’s a seal on to know if its empty or not. Even if it doesn’t have a seal there’s a chance that it could be loaded with cardboard, paper, bales, etc…..But wait there’s more

When I first started working here back in October I would check trailers, and noticed trucks are still attached to empties even though the driver is off the clock, so I would get sent 10-20 somewhere in the area to get an empty trailer from a customer. That’s a fucking hour out my day and extra hassle out my day! I don’t get paid by the hour, I get paid by the load+cpm. Other drivers stay hooked up to empties when they’ve finished their shift, so now that leaves other drivers like me unhooking their truck from the trailer, parking it in the bobtail section, then getting in my truck and hooking up to the empty trailer. Even my dispatcher told me once to just unhook their truck and grab the empty a time or two.

Earlier this year, I noticed around Feb-March, my days started with grabbing loaded trailers off the yard and delivering them, which made things a whole lot fucking easier since I don’t have to dread arriving to work spending 15min to search for an empty, grabbing frozen door after door, and kicking up snow in 0-30 degree weather and I’m out of Columbus, Ohio BTW. Yall wtf winters are like out here in these parts.

So 2 days ago I find an empty with a truck still attached to it. Driver is somewhere off the clock, while I’m here at work doing extra shit I shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Freightliner fleet so we all have same key to each truck, I unhook from it, park it in bobtail and hook my truck to trailer to complete load

Then the next day I get this text my dispatcher. I’m assuming the driver got fumed when they realized someone moved their truck and or took the empty. More than likely their truck because their stuff was in it and they can’t possibly fathom someone else moving their truck, let alone moving it. I think it was a vet driver too. Regardless why tf are they staying hooked to a empty trailer off the clock, makes no fucking sense for other drivers including me having to chase empties when we could just grab

Idk when, how or why tf a CORPORATION, is bowing down, bending over, and sucking up to these drivers. You make the rules, not these fucking piss ants who think they outright own the equipment and purposely make it harder for other drivers. Like wtf, and they wonder why their turnover rate is so fucking high! They can’t keep asses in the seat because stupid ass uncalled for shit like this

RANT OVER!

Applying to walmart end of july/early august once i have 30months experience, LTL or hauling fuel because fuck this shit