If you're gonna do open deck general freight, do it while you're young. I drove mostly van and reefer for most of my career, but in 2017 I...
you're still on the 9900 mile salary plan though...I don't think that's available to new drivers. The standard per mile plan, I was told, maxed...
Must not be getting too many driver referrals from current drivers, they're advertising on the forum Smokey Point Distributing looking to round...
On a positive note, on that load where they insisted that I untarp and check to see if I had a missing box, they did indeed pay for an extra stop...
I have my positive, humorous moments too...but the older I get, I find fewer reasons to be positive and humorous....
My Volvo is always in manual mode...well, because it is a manual. What sucks is they have already castrated 11th and 12th so both max out at the...
Still not sure why. When I worked for Crete many years ago, they dropped us from 65 to 62 claiming it was for fuel mileage. But, only the newer...
I predict a huge traffic jam trying to get thru Seattle on Monday
Yep, plus totally F'up the ability to idle if the APU takes a ####.
On to my next load. An elevator load out of Dallas going to Olympia WA. So, I guess this will be the last week I can pass most other companies...
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I was mistaken about the size of the solar farm I was delivering to. The guy who was unloading me said the phase of the project my delivery was...
Most of my years out here I never took all my winter gear out (I tend to see a lot of WY and it might snow there at any given month except...
The last Cascadias I drove would ecoast and nothing ever appeared on the dash. Must be how the company had the trucks set up...but it would cut...
The Freightliner AMT's I have driven, even off cruise, decide to start upshifting going down hill to keep it in it's optimal MPG range thus...
Looks like I jumped the gun on removing the majority of my winter gear. I usually wait until hurricane season before taking out my coats and long...
Or when you're grossing in the high 70k lb range and it trys to skip shift 2 or 3 gears, realizes it can't go, downshifts one, then another, then...
For the majority of the time I have had it, it didn't either, but lately it's about 50/50...this is the 1st time it did it before I arrived I...
A little JB Weld and it's good to go.
Having driven multiple versions of both... they're equally worthless as far as reliability and driveability...I would rather drive a Pinnacle Mack...
