Starting off with Schneider OTR

If you dont wind up leaving Richmond, you could look and see what trucking companies are in your area. I was having some trouble finding decent TAH parking. After making a dozen calls, I got the OK to park my trailer at a tanker company's yard a few miles down the road from me and I just bobtail home. I had to sign a lease with them since nothing is free in NJ but they don't charge me much since it's only for one or two days a week. You could get lucky and find someone to let you park for free since you'll rarely be there. It's better than parking in some store lot at least.

 

You're right, I doubt that a mega would let you park it there for insurance reasons and whatever else but I'm sure there are a ton of smaller carriers with space near you. It's not like you'll be parking it everynight.

As for the other stuff, just keep your chin up. I've only been out here for 6 months now so I can't offer up all the good advice as some of the other members here but just keep moving forward and improve your skills each day. I'm in a month long slump myself, dealing with truck issues and an awful amount of live loads, unloads at places have always been a simple drop and hook. That and being stuck in the northeast lately. If you start your day with a bad attitude, it can only get worse from there.

If it makes you feel any better... I wound up in a hospital out in Indiana for 6 days with a severe case of Pneumonia in my right lung and wasnt allowed to go back to work for 2 more weeks. This was on my 4th day as a solo driver! So long story kinda short, it could only have gotten better from there and it has. Even with the slow days. Keep up the good work and take your time in everything you do.

 

I hear you on the trailers. I haul rolls quite often and have had the same thought about the floor giving out when I get stuck with some of those 9 series trailers. That or getting pulled over for leaving a debris field of rust flakes behind me on the highway. If you don't have a pair of vise grips yet, get some. Most of the high quality trailers on my account require them to even budge the tandems.

 

log back into it.

 

Stay logged off & run on a coloring book, yeah buddy

 

That happened to me after the Marion shop replaced my screen. Not sure why, since the black box never got touched but I was magically reassigned my power unit about an hour later. I think i logged in and out a few times and waited while the shop blamed tech support, and tech support blamed the shop.