Most loads are late before you are even dispatched now. Frequently turned away from shippers and receivers because appointment times aren't changed. Dispatch and breakdown are horribly understaffed...call in to either and you're likely to be caller twenty something on hold. Even satcom messages routinely go unanswered for 2, 4, 10 hours. So you'll finish a run, send in the paperwork...you have a preassignment you accepted hours ago which is now due for pickup soon.......aaaaaaaaannnd they don't dispatch you. And you sit and wait, and wait some more, and send a message reminding dispatchers to do their job and dispatch you...which is ignored...you call in and you're number 27 on hold, which would be about 90 minutes if you were so lacking in self respect that you would actually wait that long on hold.....and then three hours have gone by and you're out of hours so you shut down....go to the pickup ten hours later....and get turned away because you missed your appointment because dispatch didn't do their job and nobody bothered to get you a new appointment...ie they didn't do their job AGAIN. Business as usual there now unfortunately.
Company just added road facing cameras (and in cab sound recording) and fleet managers and safety people now spend hours every day watching dashcam videos and calling drivers (or demanding that drivers call in and wait on hold) to then be nagged and scolded for any deviations from Defensive Driving scripture.
If you are a Defensive Driving fundamentalist and have no problem constantly maintaining 6 to 8 seconds of following distance at ALL times...like 5pm on the DC beltway.... and never exceed a posted speed limit, you'll be fine. Otherwise prepare for regular and frequent ''communication'' and ''teaching'' from dispatch and safety about 'dashcam events'. Your clean MVR and perfect CSA score mean little or nothing now...you have to drive for the camera now. Let someone get within 200 feet of your front bumper in rush hour or hit 71mph at the bottom of a hill at 3 am and you'll have some 'splainin to do.
Company used to pay a bonus to drivers who stayed out more than 30 days...did away with it, which amounted to a 7 percent pay cut to their hardest working drivers...the ones who kept the equipment rolling rather than sitting and weren't always whining about home time.