Just finished training with Werner

well after re-reading this from start to finish, it is amazing how much my virw points have fluctuated. lol.

one minute i wanna be otr and refuse dedicated accounts, then im not gonna be a team style trainer and then i am. wow. what a crazy 10 months and how fast it has flown by!

anyways, I was thinking of becoming a trainer, but now I might stay in Budweiser dedicated awhile.

I just got a raise from $800 minimum and $.33 cpm to $900 a week minimum and $.37 cpm.

Really enjoying my weekends off, pay is pretty darn good for only working 5 days and every other Saturday.

Werner really isnt all that bad here in my neck of the woods.

 

it is going pretty well. much better than I thought it would. I was reluctant to get on there because of all the things I had heard. most of it isnt true. at least not from my experience.

 

and I finally got one today! Yeahhh! I did run my butt off too!

 

thats a good run. I ran that for a day when I was OTR. if not for the fact that it was up in the land of eskimoes and polar bears and north pole temps i would have stayed on it.

the dedicated fleet dispatchers on that account are good guys too. they will treat you right.

use google satellite on your phone or laptop to check your ins and outs with aerial view. it will help big time. some of those places are tight!

the qualcomm keeps track of your drive time. word of advice. do NOT get off the truck early before your 275 is up.

 

had another quadruple digit paycheck. grossed $1147 this past week.

ended up making a run to Ft. collins and they needed a load ran up in the mountains last Tuesday to Glenwood Springs.

It snowed the whole way. Slid and slipped up to Eisenhower Tunnel, chain law from mm 224 to the tunnel went in effect right as I hit the tunnel.

#### near jack knifed going down the west side. doing 15 mph w/ 80000# and left rear of the trailer kicked out on me and tractor headed for the wall. gave a little and steered into it and got it back. pretty scary.

chained up at the bottom to go up Vail Pass. took me 70 minutes to chain up...first time ever and was pretty frustrated.

coming back the next day, I went over Vail again and only took 39 minutes to chain up. not real bad for first time chaining and driving in the mountains in winter.

dont see why so many drivers make a fuss about chaining up. wasnt that big a deal.

how are things going for you?