Stevens Transport aviary

The usual issue with your laptop is vibration from being on the truck. There are sites online that will guide you through disassembling your laptop ... if you feel comfortable ... the ribbon cable that attaches the screen to the motherboard has most likely come loose. All that you should need to do is relock the attach point at the motherboard ... it will be obvious when you see it.

I see laptops from truckers with this issue all the time. Just thought I put that out there for y'all.

 

Congrats on the new truck Smokr, and causing the damage without actually being assigned the truck. Be interesting to hear how your change to elogs goes.. with some of the runs you have to do.

I was in dallas, just not at the yard, and yes that oppressive heat was a killer... thanks for the good cooling apu system, I survived...
Headed north today, and more of I29 in Missouri and Iowa is closed... gonna make the backroads even more crowded...

Enjoy that hershey run Emulsified.. I always enjoy that run, and I never answer my phone as I can swing by home for a day or two, and still deliver on time.. Enjoy your home time when you get there.

 

When you have time. google"nebraska nuclear power plant accident" it happened june 7th. now a cover up. a media ban. interesting.

 

e logs= pay cut

 

Ive heard both ways, that elogs are better and some say they are worse. I guess its all in how you drive. Im on paper myself, and only had a very few situations where I think elogs would have cost me. All this doing stuff by the 15 min is a pain in the wazoo.

Im at the yard. I do wish my DM would do his job. I QCd him twice asking if the delivery I had to Garland, TX was indeed a drop and hook like he said, and that I would be good to drop after midnight. Both times he assured me i was good to go. "Take it straight in Brotha" So I get there at 0030 and guess what? Its a live unload and they wont be open till the morning.

So by the time I got unloaded and got to the yard, it was almost noon and couldnt get any clearance stuff doner this morning as was planned. Really pisses me off.

Anybody at the yard, PM me. Id love to meet ya.

 

wow, been a bit since i updated.. been slacking/running/getting screwed over.. the usual.

Still an alliance driver. still making money. although it seems the repower group would like to see me failing that at times. even dallas dispatch has had it in for me this week. Had a decent week building last week picked up a repower in ontario,IL to safeway in New jersey, easy enough, got dispatched to port of wilmington, dole load headed to Tennesee.. would have then gotten General mills load and had a nice 2700 mile week. but get called to do a repower half way down I81 driver can't make it the extra 150 miles to americold in strasburg.. at first I try to ignore it.. but they pester me into taking it. so I do, i sit for 30 hours waiting on the preplan out.. 3 drops.. 8 pallets.. get rolling first 2 drops ( benton,mo & tulsa) easy.. get into texas they call me to repower a canada load in anna, texas. I'm like cool. well the driver takes it to the yard instead, and I have to complete my delivery. No big deal. Get a prepaln for Campbells in paris texas.

I run over do my last drop 1 pallet, 6 cases refused/damaged. No leaking just pallet wore. so I lose my preplan as OSD decides what to do. Head over to salvation army to donate cases, so I do.. wrap up there. new load assignment sherman texas to Oklahoma.. 150 miles loaded. I'm like WTF? call my Dm he says refuse the load.. So I do. New load Paris to Las Lunas.. I'm like easy enough. Drop and hook.

I get there a day early, No empties.. I sit for 21 hours.. get my current load out of Liberal. 3 NE drops.. tuesday-Wednesday.. Last week casue I banked a trip I scanned 3200..on wednesday.. this week I'll have to hold scanning and have to get 2k before Monday to get back into my comfort zone.

I like that they call me.. but sometimes I wish they wouldn't. I hate saying no to repower miles. been running strong since my last HT in April, but still only at 2300 miles average. due back in the yard in July, not sure If I'm going to stay alliance.

I love my 660 but i seem to be the slave labor at times.

 

Drove right past the plant yesterday, on my trip to laredo... the plant is shut down, which is the plan when it floods. No media ban, read a report of the SMALL fire in the Omaha newspaper too.

 

for anyone running legal, and logging on paper the way you are required to, which will cost you minutes as you round out, e logs will save drive time.. as a 7 minute fuel stop is a 7 minutes, not 15, giving on 8 more minutes of drive time... pull into a truck stop at 5 after the hour, have to round out to 15, costing 10 minutes, elogs saves that 10 minutes...
No time compressing, just legal to the minute....

The only time it would cause me any problems, is when I park within a mile of a receiver, the night before, and then drive in, yet the way it is programmed, as long as I drive very slow, it will not start my clock.

I do know one driver that not having elogs was the straw that caused him to quit, after having them for a year, and understanding how to use the system to his advantage.

 

Well here I am in Ogden at he J.
Dropped my Hershey load, but of course there is no preplan and I suspect it will be monday before they decide to dispatch me.
Then it's probably an afternoon or tuesday p/u.
I'm going home. So I think I'll just deadhead tomorrow up to Boise, park the truck and worry about dispatch another day.
I need a few days off.
Just to show you how screwed up everything is...ran into a driver at Hershey here in Odgen that I repowered in Jersey. Then he picked up a Hershey load just ahead of me. I ended up picking up the same trailer in PA that I had repowered to him.
He's trying to get home to Sacto, I'm trying to get home to Boise. They gave him a load from Nampa, ID (Boise) and won't get him home.
They offered me a load to Texas.
Time for some off time.
I'm tired.

 

As one that has never seen E logs, how so?