back at swift

if you talked to dm about the extra mileage do you think they would pay the extra miles since you followed their routing?

 

finally got asigned a truck after sitting over 4 days( today being the fifth) its an '09 volvo with aprrox. 450000 miles on it. looks like previous drivers played bumpers trucks cause both front corners arw pretty banged up. one side had a good size tear on it. everything seems to work 'specially the bunk heater. took me awhile to figure out how to turn it off and it was real toasty inside

 

spent about 4 hours goinf iver everything and getting all the supplies i have to have. still missing some stuff, hopefully fontana dispatch has them. need to get more chains i think. this truck has super singles and its equipped with 2 front tire chains and one rear tire chains. how many do i actually need to have? today was the first time i ever touched chains due to i grew up.around so. calif. the 5 months i was with swift in '97 was in the summertime and early fall.

 

sitting in the mira loma yard now for the nite. lets see what tomorrow brings. going to be an adventure for sure till i get use to thew lifestyle and to the work again

 

mira loma has no chains in stock

 

thanx scottie. i'll talk my dm and see what he has to say.

 

wow.. what an busy day today. got a load p/u from riverside this morning going to st. cloud,mn. delivering on the 21. went and p/u the load and drove over to weigh the load at fontana terminal since quallcom said its was going to be 37000 lbs and the b/l said 3000 lol. went and talk to my dm about getting more chains since i wasn't even legal to run up north. he called pheonix, salt lake, and mn and nonone had any. so he decide to have me t-call the load in mira loma and told me to hang out there. on they over he message me to call him asap, so i pulled over and called. he said that once i get rid of the load, they were going to give another truck that came available. its has little a little more miles but its in alot better shape than the other one. so i spent all afternoon moving my stuff oveer and going over ewverything on and in the truck making sure they work. ask dm to move my pta till tomorrow morning and went to a much needed food shopping. was getting expensive eating out and not many places close by here in mira loma yard. hopefully i can get a load tomorrow.