THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

They had limited devices on VZW and "unlimited" (well, not really but not a hard cap) on sprint, now they only do hotspots that run on vzw as far as I know. Blue Mountain offered to take over their sprint customers when sprint told m-com to **** off, so I've been with them since.

Man I just looked at my load on the load board and I thought I had till midnight on the delivery date in Kathleen but I gotta have it there by 1500 which means I need to get further than Charlotte tomorrow. Will probably have to make it into deep SC or just into GA before I shut down since I know goatpathing it across GA to Kathleen will eat up a lot of time. I really appreciate the offer of a nice meal, but looks like Charlotte isn't going to work out after all for tomorrow.

But the way, I think I know why you got that Pete now... probably got that bigass 84" sleeper, gonna try to convince the wife to come along so she can plan your loads AND cook you some killer meals on the road? LOL.

 

Moosc you do realize that just because someone does something differently from the way that you do it does not mean that they are doing it wrong?I'll tell you one thing I'd sure as hell rather drive in the snow at night when there is no traffic, I can drive at safe speeds for the conditions without 50 4 wheelers trying to pass me at every corner doing 67 MPH, and the 4 wheelers that ARE out are generally being safe and will follow behind my truck because they know if I'm doing 45 MPH there's a #### good reason for it, and when they do want to pass they wait until its safe and its only 1 or 2 of them, not a pack of 17 of them all in a rush to try to pass the truck first.Parking is no problem at night if you know where to park. Don't run nights in areas where there is little parking to begin with. I don't even waste time trying to park at truck stops, but I hate truck stops and usually don't park at them anyway, regardless of what time of day I am running.

 

Well since many of the company trucks no longer have the trolley valve it can come in handy in some situations. Sometimes the spring brakes on the trailers don't hold when you're trying to slide the tandems on a very heavy load, so you release the trailer parking brakes, flip that switch and it applies air pressure to the service brakes (just like if you were stomping on the brake pedal) and unless something is wrong then they will hold. Its also useful for checking trailer brake lights, etc. Obviously do not flip it while going down the road.