Here was a good one, we have this rattle trap International at our yard that by all means fleet should absolutely put out to pasture why they are holding on to that piece of garbage I have no idea, but it's S-H-O-T shot. Any how they sent it out today and the driver who drives it didn't want to drive it, so he kept calling in at every stop complaining about the truck.
The truck does have an exhaust leak and it is annoying, and so on and so fourth, but he could have made it through the day. This particular driver isn't exactly high on managements list. Anyhow, he complained enough to the point when I was done, they asked me to go bob tail my nice truck out to him and do a tractor swap at a stop. I've never heard of anything like that, one of our veteran drivers said "I've put up with a lot worse then an exhaust leak for a day."
Anyhow I get out there and that driver was all huffity puffity telling me he was going to quit which I know management would be perfectly okay with. Any how we switched trucks and he drove my assigned tractor for the rest of the day, I hope he doesn't think he's going to be driving it from now until forever, management better nip that one in the bud.
It was funny on my way out there one of the bosses called me and said "Swap tractors with him and then get out of there, do not do not stay and help him make any deliveries at all, swap tractors and leave do not help him out side of that. You've been at work since 1:45am he didn't leave the yard until after 5am this morning."
I said to them "I left my two wheelers at the yard."
They said "Good"
The stupid thing was, by the time I got out to him he only had probably 3 stops left, he was more or less unhappy that they assigned him that International to drive full time and wanted to cause management trouble and that kind of behavior is exactly why autonomous trucks are now in the works.
Anyhow maybe 3-5 more years of this route driving racket and a transit spot will open up and that's exactly where I am headed.