I understand what you are saying, but not sure it goes that way at every svs ctr. At nas every unit possible is on the road, often running out of trucks so the late start are getting stuck driving truckload sleepers that are available, some that are awaiting trade in etc to keep things moving, yea, even the peterbuilt sleepers. During the day the guys in tandems, if they come back into the yard to drop/swap after 5pm they are generally supposed to change trucks and get in one of the single axles that have come back from a route so if there is a problem throughout the evening the tandems are there for when the shuttle runs start leaving. 95% of the time I start the day in a tandem, and swap into a single axle in the evenings.Another burr under my saddle blanket. Let's review shall we:
City driver with assigned single axle - drives it during the day and parks it at night and nobody else drives it.
Then there are the tandem daycab units. These tractors run 450 to 700 miles a night, come back on the yard and are given to the least experienced, least seniority drivers to run the city in. I write mine up, park at the shop and before the shop can pull it in, city man has it and gone. Talk til you are blue in the face, does not good. Then we are to pretrip in the dark and run against the clock all night not really knowing where the unknown commodity of city driver took it or what he did to it. The experienced/senior city driver doesn't want to drive the tandems and will choose to have an assigned single axle. I don't blame them. If I were in the city, I would want one as well.
The least experience/seniority guys there may be somewhat inexperienced and an issue for tearing up equipment, back over here, if you dont have 20plus years you are low on the list, my 12 years with the company wont even get a route when the time comes for me to choose, unless I choose one that no one else wants just to have one. I think nash has more drivers over 20yrs with the company than inexperienced with less than 10-15.