One month on my own.. need some advice

Make it work ?????

Be careful Driver !!!!!!!!! .........It takes very little to mess up a newbie !!!!!

Best of Luck...........................

 

I can't send PM's either. Send me an email and I'll get you my cel #

 

phone # from drivers is the best thing to have, most of the time a fm has never driven a truck and would just give you an answer out of a book (and thats not ALWAYS the way to do it) im glad you are getting hooked up with someone from the same company as you.
i dont claim to know everything but i can help send you in the right direction
if you or anyone reading this needs to ask a question you can call me at and i will try and help the best i can

 

Man, it's great to see so many drivers helping out the newbie, hang in there anuuub, spring is right around the corner, the weather will get better and you will enjoy driving alot more. just take your time and be careful out there.

 

Giving a newbie your phone number! That's righteous, dude! My hat's off to you....

 

Yeah, watching the Super Bowl might be nice, but if you have to do something to "make it work' that might come back to bite you in the butt, is it going to be worth it? Me, if I were a newbie, I'd forgo the game, or at least part of it, and get to the con. Working it the right now, while you are starting out, could make the possibility of being home for future Bowl games much more likely.

Just my thoughts.

 

usually... if I'm delivering within 100 miles of home I usually leave Monday morning, if not I try to make it as close to the consignee as possible and still be able to take a shower in the morning and/or avoid getting woken up by someone pounding on the side of my cab at 4:30 in the morning. I absolutely despise parking at consignees the night before because I do not react very well when that happens, and it's not safe for me to move my truck when I just woke up 30 seconds ago. just keep in mind whenever you leave on Sunday usually determines what time you get home Friday. if I know I'm staying out for a couple weeks, I usually take a little more laid back approach, no hurry.

keep in mind your FM is reading from a script and is merely a mouthpiece for management, they only tell you what they are told to tell you. for example, it gets a little old hearing "do a good trip plan" when OOR gets high, when in reality OOR is caused by driving all over Indianapolis, doing swaps in different locations than on the load screen, and following fuel stops. I hadn't complied with a fuel stop in months so I figured I'd follow one, ended up 20mi OOR on a 180mi load just to fuel, surprise, 20% OOR, asked for an adjustment, we'll see if they I it, but at snapshot time when they're looking at 20% OOR, FM will be saying "make sure you do a good trip plan!"

 

Why does everyone think that they need a restart??I mean that wasn't there until they changed the HOS. We always used to work off the recap and thats the way it was. You went home 2 days well then you had hrs but not a full 70. Just funny how things change