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She asked me if I knew what happened this past week. I told her I heard a little bit (lied).
She says there was no reason why he should have been 10 hrs late on this drop off. He had plenty of time to make it.
I played stupid and asked her to show me how she comes about figuring the miles. She pulled up the miles in question and it clearly showed it would have been a 11 hour trip. I asked her if she figured in 8 hours sleep time and how late was the load to begin with. No comment
Her husband (the owner) is wondering why hubby has the TV and movies (John Wayne nut) in truck - "is he just sitting around watching TV"?
How many of you park, shut off engine and can sleep right away?

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How many of you park, shut off engine and can sleep right away?
not many drivers can do this and this is an ongoing complaint to driver manangers from drivers when DM's ask,
What do you mean you are tired, you had such and such many hours to sleep.. why didn't you just go to sleep?
That would be like the driver managers or anyone else getting off work, walking in the house and going to sleep for the night!! It doesn't happen that way..

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It takes me an hour, min, to wind down enough to fall asleep unless I am stopping for the express purpose of taking a nap.
I too carry a lot of movies in my truck. It is nice to have when you are layed over or when stranded at a shipper or reciever that takes hours just to figure out what day it is.
It is a bunch of bull when these dispatchers think that because you are a truck driver you aren't human anymore. Things like what you are talking about, or the 48 hour game(you dirve all day get home at 11 pm Friday and are supose to be ready to go out at 11 pm Sunday), or the you only had to drive 5 hours today so really didn't work crap etc. just really grate on my nerves.
Only two things I know of are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I am not real sure about the universe.