Hay. Does anyone know how the pay and home time is for ctl transportation in Florida way about their schooling I'm having a hard time deciding on them or crst

Evidently things are getting tough all over. Fuel theft, burglaries, theft of air conditioners and electrical wiring. Even theft of food.

And, now this.... Where will this insanity end??http://www.cowabduction.com

Please be sure to view the accompanying video, on the right. Be informed or be ignorant, it's your choice.

The broken record syndrome is getting tough to deal with. I occupy myself by picking a city and doing trip plan then log it.

Near the end of the day I realized I had been failing to document a 25 mile load/safety check. At this point I still have a hard time grasping the idea of driving 25 miles then stopping.

I made up two long runs. 1 from Dallas to Boise, ID, driving for Big A, delivering a load of potato seeds for McD Corporation..

My second run ...

So now I have been driving a truck for 3 1/2 years. I drove for Swift for 2 of them and with another company for the last year. I have learned an incredible amount of information that I didn't know when I first started.

What did I learn? I learned that no one on any of the dating sites wants to date a trucker. Fools. What better relationship could be had than with someone who is never around to nag, belittle and fight with.

I have learned the value of an in-cab refrigerator. ...

trucker and soldiers

I hope this letter reaches everyone some day. This is my input.
If you reading this you think to your self. your thinking there is a ton of difference between a truck driver and a American soldier.
well thats where you are wrong lets add them up is your a soldier in a war your gone for a long period of time from your family and friends. If you are a over the road truck driver this is the same. soldiers work long hard hours so do truck drivers you ...

Nothing much to write home about. Today we started two new students. With that, we started back @ page 1. So I spent the day reviewing past lessons I had missed on tests as well as studying more on logging & trip planning.

My roommate skipped out Friday & has yet to return. All this stuff is a major inconvenience to him. DARS is paying for it, so he has no respect for the cost factor.

It's good to be home for the weekend. My wife & kids came and spent Wednesday night with me. That was a pleasant surprise.

Yesterday turned out to be an interesting headache.

Ray had taken our answer sheets home with him to catch up on grading. When he gave me mine back I went back to review the questions I had missed.

I re-read the questions and knew my answers HAD to be right or I HAD to be seriously misunderstanding something. So Ray stood by me, read ...