JJ's Place

Hey there KH, good to see you posting again. How's life going?
Usually, there ok about leaving me alone but sometimes........and thats the ones ya'll usually hear about.

 

Life sucks as I have shingles, a form of Chicken pox. So Im sitting at home and just letting my meds and mother nature do her magic.

 

Well lets see, came out on Tue. morning, here it is Monday, have 3480 paid miles and am doing a rest. Kewl!!! Hope to do it again after the rest. Went OKC to Dodge City to King of Prussi, PA to Newark, NJ, to Waco.
Got chewed out yesterday by one of the weekend DM's cause I was unplugging my QC. Wahhh. Nothing has been said today tho and they did get the problem fixed. YEA!! No more reefer alerts every hr when it wasn't even turned on.
KH, shingles!! Yuck and ouch!!!!

 

You were not gone long enough, Was the training delayed or something? Welcome back, I hope it goes well out there. I am awaiting the call that you suggested I go with.. Thanks. TD.

 

My dispatcher called me yesterday all upset.
They got the call from Crete checking my employment lol.
He wants me to stay and says that he can get me the miles I need. He can do nothing about the short mileage pay, already knew that. I just hope that the company eventually gives into the pressure.
So I am going to stay for a while and see how it goes. I asked him about swapping over to system if he thought that would give me more miles. He said that he could run me like a system driver and that I would get as many or more miles.
System is home every other week and not every week like regional. Not really an issue. Since if I changed company's I was going to have to go full OTR and be home only once a month.
I will go ahead and start working on getting my hazmat anyway. Since I will get an extra cent per mile here for it, and the other company's I am looking at all require it.

Stuck in the Northeast for now. I was already here when I talked to him yesterday, so now he has to try and get me out.
Crap loads up here. All are drop and hook pickup, but all have too much time on them and live unloads. All of the D+H on both ends loads are taken by the NE regional fleet.
So I deliver at 2000 here in New Hampshire, then I have to deadhead over to Portland ME for Poland spring. Cannot pick that up till 1900 tomorrow though. So I will have to sit and wait.
Then it is only going 500 miles, and I cannot get it unloaded till Thursday at 1700. So more sitting. I will plan to stay out this weekend if he can get me some good loads west or south. But this pay period is already FUBAR. No way I will get over 2200 miles.

 

ok.........petes are cool, hardly functional though or profitable, but u da badd butt runnin down da road, me........well...........I just get there, and when I step out of the truck is what really counts.........