As of October 21 I have officially been with Schneider one year. My, how time flies and what a ride it has been so far. Any of you who have kept up with my past blogs know where I've come from to get to this point.

So, the question I know that's on errbody's mind is "How did Schneider commemorate our first anniversary in our loving relationship?" With cake and Ice cream, balloons and streamers, of course!

Naw just kidding. They called me in for recertification ...

I've gotta get it in my head on better time management and planning. So far it's still been in my head that when I sign out for the day I got ten hours then I need to roll again.

This morning I got up and took off by 5:30. My orders said p/u between 12 and 1400. Around 8:00 I showed up for my p/u. They told me to come back about 9:30 and they'd have it finished.

An hour and a half lost off of my 14.

My delivery was in Dallas. On the way they sent a message ...

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First, thanks for taking your time to read my posts. Your words of encouragement are appreciated! It's not my intention to come across as whiny. Just want to pass along my experience to others who may be looking for a heads up.

The ComData cash advance is a handy trap. It's much Alike the checking account overdrafts. Once you're in that hole it's hell to get out of. Common sense dictates that if you can tough it out a week you'll feel better when you look at your paycheck.
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What can I say? I've done almost all the driving. Yesterday I logged 400 miles exactly.

Today we left Menomonie, WI. In my first week now I have driven in the snow, saw a deer on the RR tracks, saw a county worker with a trailer load of roadkill deer and my TE spotted a bear on the side of the road. (A REAL bear, not a cop.)

We ran hard straight to Indianapolis to the Schneider OC. I pulled into the yard with one minute left on my drive clock. Woulda made it just a lil ...

Finally I'm a rollin!

Last night we got a late start. As I'd mentioned before, the starter was out on our truck. The mechanic at the Dallas OC put the wrong starter on it. What should have been about an hour long job turned into all day.

Finally they told us we were ready to go. Then the interior lights wouldn't come on and we were readin "low voltage." Our ace mechanic put a wire on wrong. Didn't take em long to fix that.

Then they wrote us an order ...