Heading For Little Rock! Maverick

Yeah its 24 hrs....I ended up getting on a plane....lol. That decision gave me about 18 more hours of hometime.

 

if his truck number happens to be 27833, that's my old trainer truck. 57mph in manual cruise control as much as possible and his mpg will be thru the roof!!!

 

well after reading thru the rest of the thread, i see he didn't get my old columbia.
Welcome and congrats to all the new drivers that have completed orientation, are waiting for their "trainers", and are on the bus headed to the rock.
Jim- was a pleasure seeing you again and dinner with sewerman a.k.a pollock, and cups, was a blast as well. I wish i would've seen the polish sausage before my third plate. what'd i end up with 7 or 8? whatever, i ate so much, i didn't get hungry til lunchtime the following day. Was wondering. . .did you ever get "know it alls" real name you know the one i'm talking about that left the lights on in the company vehicle saturday night after using it after you and not signing it out? and then making it a point to say that if the lights are on automatic they turn themselves off. Like i said alot of times what i say and what i think are two totally different things. I was thinking after that statement of sheer brilliance. . . "Yeah we know brainiac but since you've been driving a truck since the only terms you needed to know to steer were gee and haw that out of habit, you reached down and turned the lights on just like you do in your 2010 cascadia"
sewerman---glad the apple butter express finally made it to the consignee. twas no problem but again sorry bout the out of route getting it down to little rock.
cups---jelly on waffles this am. . .YUMMY!!! wife said i had some stuck to my facial insulation, i told her yep, i know, stuffs so good, i'm saving that for later. lol

Made it home last night with 2 coil load going to tecumseh products in paris, tn for monday.

Heard a rumor that was floating around HQ at little rock that i was quitting. ROTFLMFAO!!! Perhaps someone heard me say that i should quit when i was talking about quitting chewing tobacco and instead of coming to me about what i had said word got back to little rock. Not that i even needed to do so, but i called training department and f.m. to tell them the only place i was going other than home was wherever my next work assignment sent me

Loaded at nucor in crawfordsville friday eve at 1730 out of door 1. Scalehouse said door 1,2,or 3. pulled in front of the doors and opened door one. All 3 bays had trucks in them. covered wagon in 3, flatbet that just got 2 coils put down on it in bay two, fully tarped flatbed company unknown, loaded, secured, tarped, down to the last bungee. I figured he would be the next to pull out so i set up to back into door 1 but left enough room for the driver to pull out. he did. i backed in, set up for my two coils, got loaded and put two straps over each and then opened the door to see if there was any other drivers waiting to be loaded.

You see what i forgot to mention was, for crawfordsville, in. in late january, the weather was nice high 30's and wind at 5mph if even that. I peeked out the door to see if there was another driver waiting to be loaded. if there had been another driver, id've pulled out and finished securing and tarping outside so he/she could get loaded and get home just like i was trying to do. OMG a truck driver actually thinking about someone other than himself. . . SAY IT ISN'T SO.

stick around long enough ladies and gentlemen if you haven't heard it already, and you will hear driver's talk about the good ol' days when drivers helped each other. How if a truck was broken down on the side of the road, by the time 4 or 5 trucks pulled over to help enough knowhow, equipment and tools were available to fix the breakdown and how they wish those days would return. Problem is alot of those drivers that are complaining about current state of the trucking industry and lack of teamwork are the same ones you are waiting on to put every last bungee on their tarps while you are outside waiting to back in to be loaded. or putting away every last edge protector while you are next to be unloaded. courtesy is contagious as the common cold just like teamwork. (of course some are immune to anything, even advice)

Change begins with the person you look at in the mirror.

improvise, adapt, overcome

Or like my favorite tshirt reads, "evolve or die". can't dumb it down any more than that

 

I've never stayed there after hours, I believe you can, but I can't say 100%

 

I'm sitting in Johnsonville, IN after a 34hr in Madison. Going to get me a 10 in tonight, & get unloaded 3rd thing in the morning. I'm 3rd in line. Four Maverick drivers in all. Hope I can get a rather nice run in the morning.