It's been very quiet in the KLLM forum

I going to start orientation on Feb. 3 in Atlanta. Does anyone know how long the days are?

 

We are still hiring students but we are NOT hiring "lead seats" (i.e. experienced drivers).
If you have not spoken to a recruiter, I urge you to call one. As with any recruiter with any company...double check your info here. Our recruiters are usually pretty good about playing nice but why take the word of ONE person when you can get the lowdown from a driver's perspective from multiple drivers?
I like to think I've proven that I shoot straight from the hip and don't mince words so you are free to ask me anything anytime. Is this company *perfect*? No....but it is a darn sight better than the vast majority out there in my opinion. Don't take my word for it. Go to the "Report a bad trucking company here" forum and see how many posts you find on KLLM vs. other major trucking companies.

Hope you choose to join me over here. I'm very happy with this company and don't plan on leaving them anytime soon. In fact, I'm leasing a truck come mid-February.

RT

 

7-8 hrs but that includes lunch and breaks. It's a pretty easy couple of days.

Hope to see you on the road (or at a terminal) somewhere. Grab me and say HI. I don't bite...just ask rnbwpnt, nascartruckingal and comissioner (yep, just met him too at the Atlanta terminal!!). I'm having a great time meeting our new KLLM'ers from this forum !

I'm loving my new Cascadia too! I got to drive it briefly yesterday when I went hunting for an empty trailer. VERY smooth to drive! I have a lot to learn though...nothing is in the same place as the Century and Columbia! Cruise and jake brake are on the steering wheel, I have not figured out yet where my CB is supposed to go, headlights are on the left and wipers are on the turn signal...and hazards are now on a button on the right....WHHHAAAAAA!!!! It's flippin' confoozin!!
The gears float very nicely though...
Had to buy a wireless transmitter for my laptop so I can still play my Napster music through the radio but, on the up side, this has allowed me to move my computer up to the space for the TV where the light from the monitor isn't glaring off my windshield at night. Tested it on my test drive and it works great! Now all I need is a new 12v cord for my inverter and I'll be good to go. Had it hooked directly to the battery via my fuse box in the Century but no es posible in the Cascadia...they moved the fuse box. My cord to plug it into the cigarette lighter is bad so it was squealing all of the time. I'm assuming the cord is bad so hopefully a new one will solve the problem without me having to revert to being a demanding wretch and insist on them installing an inverter...mine or theirs...makes no difference to me but I *have* to have somewhere to plug in my cell phone, bluetooth headsets and laptop.

RT

 

ITS IN THE SUNGLASS HOLDER TAKE THE FOUR SCEWS OUT THE POP THE ONE HALF OUT AND SLID UR CB IN i know it has been awail since the last post but just trying to help. i too am coming to kllm in like a week

 

Well Dang it Toad. Where the hell have you been? I check here every so often, but haven't seen you lately. I'm gonna go on the Lease, but I'm waiting on Cascadias. No body at Jackson believes me when I tell them I had more leg room in my trainers Cascadia than this Columbia I'm drivin'. If I'm going to buy one, it's going to be what I want, and a Cascadia is what I want. Not that I don't have a good truck right now, but when I buy one, well......

Anyway, I was in Jackson for a couple of days, because a JB Hunt driver ran into me while I was sitting at the loading dock in Detroit. Got it patched up enough to limp home with a load and got it all fixed. It looks like new. Had my regular PM Service done too, and yanked a load of Bananas to Indiana. Sitting in Louisville, Ky, waiting to load and go to New Orleans. I've been watching for you on the road and at the yards, but haven't run into you or Ledbetter yet. Oh well, hope to see you soon.

 

Oh Lord...let me tell you....

FIRST- I go home October 1st because my shoulders were both killing me. Turns out I had rotator cuff tendinitis so I have to have a follow up visit the following week. By that time it had started raining, had been raining for 3 days, and it was a Friday so I opted to wait until Monday to come back out as I felt there was a better chance for good freight on Monday.

In the meantime, a friend of mine comes to pick up three mares that I picked up for her from a mass adoption event that the Humane Society had while I was home. She gets to my house after dark, it's raining, foggy, you can hardly see my driveway...and she drives off my driveway and gets stuck in te pasture which is now little more than a mud bog. I go get her and walk her up the house...we'll deal with the truck in the morning.

Come morning, I make the monumental mistake of thinking I'll use my truck to pull her out. I don't even make it to her truck before my big truck is stuck *in my driveway* (I have a 1/4 mile long dirt and gravel drive). Shortly thereafter my hay guy shows up and manages to get my friend's truck out withis 4 wheel drive. In the meantime I am frantically trying to get my own truck unstuck....including chaining up in my own freaking driveway because I am supposed to be heading back out on the road that day. I end up covered head to toe in mud...I look like The Swamp Thing's twin sister. It's so bad that once I give up trying to get my truck unstuck I just climb in the shower...clothes and all.

Altogether, four people and one farm tractor end up stuck in my driveway at various points in time. It rained for about 10 days straight and I had no option but to wait it out and wait for the ground to dry up enough for me to get my truck out.....which happened on the 19th.....

Now...as for this morning...I go to the Wal-Mart DC to deliver. I drop my trailer in the door, disconnect, park in the bobtail parking and take my paperwork inside. Once I check in I go back to my truck and crawl back in bed.

Sometime later they call me to let me know they are finished.....this is where all h*ll breaks loose....

I had changed back into my shorts to go back to bed...so to go back inside I had to change back into my pants. I get my pants halfway on when this large black HAIRY SCARY spider shoots out of them and up my left leg.

Now....for three years I worked in the Texas prison system...facing down murderers, rapists, thieves, etc. So the rational part of my brain is saying "Come on..get real...it's just a little ole spider..." HOWEVER...the "OMG!! IT'S A HUGE HAIRY BLACK SPIDER!!!" part of my brain, which apparently in certain specific situations holds an enormous amount of veto power over every mental faculty I possess, is freaking out and screaming like a schoolgirl.

My pants fly off at speeds exceeding the sound barrier and I'm now in my undies...flailing and crashing wildly around the cab of my truck...shrieking like a banshee and beating the cr*p out of myself....in full view of about 8 MALE truck drivers who are all wondering if they should try to offer assistance or run like h*ll.

It was ALL I could do...once I regained some semblance of sanity...to walk inside, face those drivers, and collect my paperwork. Needless to say I left there at warp ten....I could not get out of there fast enough. The poor yard dog...he's probably going to need therapy and there are likely parts of his brain he will NEVER get back....

OH...we're not finished yet....

I head over to the Iowa 80 truck stop to kill some time before I fuel and head over to pick up my next load. When I finally do fuel, and finish fueling, I pull forward, go inside, get my reefer receipt, hit the ladies room and then go to get back in my truck......

&$%#!!!!!!!!!!!

I locked myself out of my truck. So, after hitting up every F'liner driver I can find to see if thier key might fit my truck, I end up having to go to the shop and borrow vise grips so I can break into my vent window and pop the inside handle.....

If I find that spider he is DEAD MEAT!

RT

 

hahahahaha!!!

Just one of those months, RT!! Hey, I'm with you on the spider thing. I got 12 years and counting in the Marine Corps, love snakes (as long as I'm not surprised by them), have eaten the most disgusting things, but spiders turn me into the biggest puxxy EVER!!

BTW, grab yourself a keybox and wire it to something underneath your hood. I don't know ANY drivers who haven't locked themselves out of a truck.

 

RT, that was hysterical. A few years back I tried to teach my now 10 yr old son not to be afraid of spiders. I live just south of Orlando, out in the country. The laundry room is out on the back porch. There was one wolf spider that we called Grand Daddy, lay a ruler across his back and he was 5" toe tip to toe tip. 3 or 4 times a week i would have my son out there petting his back untill one day grand daddy had enough. He reared back on his abdomen with four legs spread out to his sides, basically saying "Try it". Needless to say, my son freaked

 

And by the way, I'm doing an App right now for KLLM