Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Sounds like things are going pretty good for you so far. Congrats for making it this far. You'll be filled with tons of stuff this week. Most experience a lot of the same stuff their first week. However, many things can be different in your experience. Don't always get to see the trucks available on your first day of orientation. Orientation does start on Tuesday but not nearly every Tuesday. With the new additions you should be looking at some newer trucks than 05 and 07's. Good chance it'll be an 09 or 10. You'll find that more drivers do take care of their trucks here at Poly. There's always some drivers that suck at keeping their stuff up as it should be. Give some things some time and you'll find that many things are different at Poly. Remember, not a trucking company. I plan to be on the yard tomorrow(Wed). Maybe I'll see you going in and out or whatever. Good luck with everything this week. Hope your 1st ride is a good one and may your maiden voyage here at Poly be a good one.

 

Well elsriver is MIA we were supposed to meet at denny's he called back and said he's got to get the shop to release him he couldn't get out the gate that was over an hr ago. Wait i just heard a loud roar... Elsriver is that you ? ... No it's my stomach i gotta go eat. LilRobWayne thanks to you and all the others here that take the time , I'm sure it's gonna work, my mind is totally open that this is the one I'll call home for i hope at least 10yrs. If anyone has elsrivers # can ya callem and tell him i gotta go the lion won't sleep tonight being hungry. tty'all later.

 

Glad if I can help ya anytime. They serve food at the hotel bar and it's not bad. There is a few things around there in walking distance as I'm sure you've noticed. Let Elsriver experience be a heads up to you. What he's dealing with can happen anytime you hit the yard. I learned quickly that I need a vehicle at Poly as I've recently posted. He may not get out of there tonight. Just sayin! Get some food man!

 

Well made it down to the casino just west of Albuquerque tonight. Got another long day ahead tomorrow but should roll into GP sometime tomorrow night. Beautiful drive as usual down US6, US191 and US491. No word yet from outbound for Thursday but hoping some good loads still left on the board when they get around to me.

 

Sounds like more good travels out there. I just got onto the GP yard. I just finished off one of the KC loads again. Backhaul at Del Monte not quite as bad this time. 4 hour load and 2 hour unload. Not really great but better. Sure wish they would do a D/H on both ends and that would be a good all around load. Oh well. I'm guessing things are still slow here at GP. I put myself on Wednesday board last Friday and didn't get a call. Hope they call me with something I can take out soon. I took that KC load the other day just because it was the only thing going out in less than two days on the yard. Hope it's better this week. Take care out there.

 

#### a 4 hour loading at Del Monte is pretty high cotton Leave me something good.

 

good day poly-drivers,at home in statesville nc will deliver at lowes in the morning,nice to be home on my birthday today,thanks to all the poly drivers for your advise at poly.i should be able to thread more cause i moved into the 21th century and upgraded your phones trying to learn how to ues it.be safe out there. trying to get backhaul to tx by sunday.timbo50

 

Made delivery in Appleton,WI Monday morning. Got backhaul info at 1100. Went to Bensenville,IL & picked up plastic pallets going to our Cottage Grove,MN facility.

While enroute to pick up, outbound called with multiple loads. I chose a five stop mom/pop going to WA. Then yesterday morning before I left outbound calls & asks if I could cover a Lowe's DC load going to Cheyenne because the previous driver brokedown before ever leaving Cottage Grove. The problem was that the driver didn't notify dispatch till yesterday morning just before they called me. Therefore the load was already going to be late. Was told they were trying to change appointment to later in the day.

My break was over at noon, so I decided to hook & pretrip early to save time. Found a clearance light out on trailer & the right trailer turn signals would not flash. (Murphy showed up)

Took the trailer to the shop (didn't know we had a trailer shop at CG till yesterday). Tech said the turn signal issue was in the truck, not the trailer. I didn't believe him because the left side turn lights were functioning. After checking the pig-tail & hooking to a different trailer to see if the result was the same, I decided I should look a the fuse box. Guess what I found? There are separate relays for the right/left trailer turn signals.

The ship didn't have the relay. Drove to NAPA auto parts. They didn't have it. Went to Peterbilt that is close by. No dice. Called the closest IH dealer (30 miles away). Yeah we got it. So tracking down this relay caused a 2.5 hour delay.

But not to worry. The Lowe's appointment was changed to 1330 today. So Murphy, you can kiss my.....