It's not like he wanted to be here for his son's first day of school anyway.....

[MidnightSun327]

I wish my husband would not get fired if I really sent this letter to his company. I have had it, and we have put up with it long enough. This is bull spit.


Dear USA Truck,
Since December 2007, my husband has never once asked for a specific day off. He has schleped everything and anything you have asked him to. He has run loads where he has been forced to only have half a tank of fuel because he was almost over max legal weight limits. He has missed birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and even his own Grandmother's funeral. He has had no heat, no air conditioner, and no rest. He has met with attitudes and anger when he has said he would be forced to stop 30 miles from a final because of his federally mandated time limits.
You have broken promises of home time. You have broken promises of weekly milage. You have forgotten he is a human being who deserves to be treated as such.
You must have forgotten all of this when you decided he was going to Boston this weekend. You must have forgotten that he has not seen his family since July 24. You must have forgotten all this.
That is the only explination I can think of for why he is not on his way home. Instead of being sent in the right direction for home time on Monday or Tuesday, he is being sent to Boston to sit on a load until Monday morning. And, it is a beer load that picks up in NJ, meaning he also has to sit and wait for hours on end with no air conditioner, waiting for a NJ alchohol permit. He is currently running on fumes, too, because you don't heed his word when he says he has no fuel. Because, he is a stupid driver, so what does he know, right?
In what book does it say he will be able to make it from Boston on Monday morning to Little Rock by Tuesday night? (Don't forget, USA Truck, that no matter how angry you may get, he WILL NOT break the federal law and drive more than 11 hours in one day).
Will YOU be the ones to tell his son that he will not be here to bring him to his first day of Kindergarten? Will YOU be the one to comfort that little boy because the ONLY time he has asked his Daddy to be home for a specific day, he isn't because of you? It's not like he is asking to be home before he is due for it, or before he has earned it. Quite the opposite, he has been out for 3 1/2 weeks and is more then due for home time.
You seem to forget your drivers don't get to go home to their nice comfortable beds every night, you seem to forget that your drivers don't get to see their families every day. You must forget that, while you are with your children for the milestones, your drivers are not.
Instead, your drivers are thousands of miles away from their families, hauling who knows what to who knows where. Why, then, can a driver not get home for a specific event, when you were given 3 1/2 weeks notice that he needed to be home for it? Is it because you know the drivers won't say anything because, hey, at least they are working?
Well, USA Truck, I wish you could be the one to tell my son, who has been looking forward to his Daddy being there to bring him to his first day of school that, sorry, he won't be there because we don't care. I wish you were the ones who had to miss these things with your children. Maybe if you were forced to miss one event with your children, you would be a little nicer to your drivers. I wish you were forced to live in something the size of most home bathrooms for 2 and 3 weeks at a time with no air conditioner because the owner was too cheep to get it fixed properly. I wish you were the ones who had to do what your drivers have to do. But you are not, you sit in an office for 8 hours a day, telling drivers where to go and when to sleep and when to see their families while they are working for 14 hours a day in a cramped tin can.
I wish you had to take a course in human decency before being able to have control over when someone sees their family. But, you don't.
So, now, because you can't have a little human decency, my husband and I will have to break our son's heart, because you felt my husband was not worthy of being home for the one day he requested in over 18 months.
Gee, thanks, USA Truck. I hope your child never has to expereince the broken heart and the dissapointment that mine will have to be put through, again, because you ignore things like home time.
~A fed up USA Truck Wife.

*****EDIT*****
I forgot to mention, he will be sitting all day tomorrow and not be allowed to drop the damn load, 1400 miles away from home, not able to even think about leaving until Monday morining at the earliest....So, even if he was able to drop it tonight, he would need 3 full days to get home, 3 full 11 hour days to get home, with no time set backs!!!!  I am so f*****g done with this damn company.

[Christi-chan]

Aug. 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM

WTF, i would so send that letter, regardless of what the outcome. that is just rediculous how that company runs things. can he not apply for that other company yet?

[MidnightSun327]

Aug. 15, 2009 at 2:54 PM

Sending that letter, though, would probably cost him his job and, well, we kind of need that right about now. As usual, we will just have to grin and roll on.... He can't apply to that other company because everything is just starting to turn around and everyone is afraid of a backlash, so it is actually better to stay at the company he is with right now since he has so much experience with them, and won't be the low man on the totem pole, so to speak.

(Original Poster)

[Suzuki-Mom-of-2]

Sep. 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM

I am soooo right there with you!  Josh had to sweat his off bc of no air....they give them the biggest piece of shit trucks and you kno what josh had to ride a f'n bus all the way to Michigan to get his truck bc that retarded Jan bitch didnt call joshs dispatch (which is a diff one from the one ur husband has) so after he finally got to his truck it was dead as fuck, his fuel card wasnt working so he was just there for a few hrs which cut into his driving time.  they gave him no time to sleep...just sent him on a load and he had to drive on half a tank til they could figure out what was wrong with his comdata and they made him pay the 55.00 cab fair to his truck once he got to mIchigan...he is suppose to be home on the 24th...I am SO not holding my breath.  I would sure sign my name in  agreement to your letter!  ITS B/S and they do need to treat there drivers better.  they had josh in some of the shityist htels ever!  without their drivers they wouldnt be SHIT!