10 wheeler Dump Truck

I just recently started driving a dump truck. The owner does not have a CDL, nor has he ever driven a dump truck other than on his own property. He is paying me by the hour and he seems to feel it is taking too long to get to jobs/dump sites. I told him that it is normal. He sometimes accepts jobs where the travel time is 15 miles, up to 40 miles away. Sometimes even down bad dirt roads, winding turning dirt roads, steep hills. cattle guards etc. Normally haul at least 14 tons, sometimes 15. He prefers 15 tons because that's supposedly what the truck is rated for. He said it should only take maybe 5, 10 minutes longer than by car!!! But as a driver I feel like its closer to double the time it takes a passenger car. Maybe not double the time of a car...but close to that. This is rural farm country and most of even the paved roads have no shoulder.

 

I keep asking him to, but so far he hasn't rode along.

 

Yessir, I hope he does come around and understand that I am running as fast as I safely can. But if not I can always move on. I have told him twice now how much time is needed and he shakes his head in disagreement. But he hasn't ever been in the hotseat so he is speaking out of turn. These little narrow gravel roads with loose gravel and chugholes, rub-board bumps slow everything down. Then the farm to market roads are paved but narrow and with no shoulder, sometimes steep embankments on both sides and water. Combine all that with a older truck with slack in the wheel and that means slow down to a speed that you are in control of the truck and situation.