My Swift Adventure

This is a great thread! I laughed my ascoff at the change in your tenor after your first visit to Phoenix. Classic! What's truly amazing is that this crap goes on and on and on and you'd think the inside people would get sick of it but they don't, apparently.

I'm going to offer up a little advice but you'll need to keep in mind that I'm single, tend to be a little loose with my money and have no need to be home at any specific time.

As someone mentioned earlier, layovers are inevitable but you can learn to make them more tolerable.

Avoid terminals like the plague! I don't know what it is but terminals cause layovers. If that was me in your recent Denver adventure, I would have stayed under the load, dropped it at the terminal and bobtailed to a convenient hotel for a night or two then make the scheduled delivery. You'd have the same net result, a lot less aggravation, a little R&R and, yes, a little less money.

There is one way you can guarantee you won't be laid over: If you're t-calling (per the original plan) at a terminal, make a hotel reservation on the assumption you will be laid over. Plan on heading to the hotel around 1430, or so, and you can expect a preplan at 2015 that picks up around 0100, making it impossible to decline, impossible to get any sleep and impossible to cancel the reservation or get your money back. Just remember, if you don't make the hotel reservation you will not get a preplan! Run the plan and get the heck out of Denver (or Phoenix, Lancaster, Laredo, Columbus and Duluth).

How did you wind up with OS+D? As far as Swift is concerned, I've never had any. In the future, just put down that it was leaky or smelly, etc. If it's electronics, say it was emitting death rays. This might not work if we're talking pallet loads.

You are smack in the middle of something many thousands of drivers have gone through before you (my driver code begins with 11). You can try to adapt and there's still no guarantee that you'll like it any better. Or maybe you will. Getting the royal rootering is much more pleasant in nice weather. Winter makes everything suck more. Hang in there, do the best you can and figure out what's best for you and yours.

 

Ahaha! Good point! Yeah funny how when you're almost done the pay goes up. Almost like they planned it that way..

 

You still out there??

 

Probably the best thing I've ever spent money on. I don't and won't ever use it in my personal vehicle but for truckin it's nice.

 

Another thing to add to my list of things i need to get--XM radio--those so nice