Driving overt the road can be a really challenging.
You have to have lots of patents out there on the road when dealing with the traveling pubic and other truck drivers trying to get there loads delivered on time, and then dealing with the in and outs of the various shippers and receivers. So you just try to do your job the best that you can. Now the one thing that really sucks above all is when you have a small enough problem that it really doesn’t stop you from running but big enough it just makes you miserable, so miserable that after you been you running with this problem you say enough and it is high time to get the problem fix.
How ever doing so you now have a new problems to deal with.
So you send in a break down and well they have all ready gone home for the day, why there is no 24 hour break down line on the week end’s is up surd at a company that’s runs over a a few hundred. so ok there’s no help there so you run a bit longer, and now at this point that things are getting to be “sticky” so finally day’s later break down tells you to take it to a shop, and the shop where you now are is saying “ well we might get to it to night but for sure we will get to it tomorrow“. what happen to yesterday? And now two and half days later they are saying “ well too day for sure” well that’s no consolation for you or your dispatcher who is on the edge all ready and you are tired of waiting on people who have no care or clue that you are not making any money. So you wait and you wait and you go check and your truck is still parked out on the waiting line. So what a driver to do?
Start looking for another job? Ask or Beg for another truck? Complain to management? There is only so much you can do to move this process a long. Here a tip on buying a truck, Of all the trucks in the trucking industry to day find the one with 24/7 service and parts that are not proprietary to that certain truck and those who have the nine to five mentally should be voided like the plague,