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

Well for someone like me, I didn't have good enough credit to go to the dealer or a bank. So I picked out a truck that I would have gotten from the dealer anyway, or as close as I could. I got my diesel APU, 13 speed transmission, Cummins engine.

With the option to get exactly what I wanted from the dealer of course that would have been the way I would have gone, but that wasn't an option for me. That's ok though, I still got a truck that had a lot of what I wanted and that I'm very happy with.

Now some IC's could easily go to the dealer and pick out a truck, too, but they prefer to just lease. If they're making money they are happy with, and enjoy being able to trade the truck back in and get a new one after a couple years, what is wrong with that? Its whatever you want to make of it IMO.

 

Also how about putting the landing gear handle BACK DOWN when you drop the trailer, so the yard dog doesn't ram it against 15 other trailers and a brick wall on its route to the dock, bending it together making it impossible to switch the lever to make the ratchet catch the other direction???? BRAND NEW trailers and I'm out there beating the thing with the sledgehammer just to get it so I can crank the gear up... Jesus.

 

Well after sitting here for about 2 hours going back and fourth trying to decide on what load, I decided on a 42,924lb load headed to the same place I was originally going to in McCalla, AL.... though with only a 35k load before it got cancelled. Oh well. There was another load headed further north in AL but it looked like goatpaths and didn't get me to that great of a spot so I settled on this one. This will probably be only my second or 3rd load over 40k with this truck LOL.

Will be interesting to see if it still throws the DPF face plug code, as usually it would only throw it with the heavier loads. Gonna drive the piss out of it and see what happens.

 

Yeah headed there to that HD DC if I can ever get out of fricking Scotts here in Jackson GA. Been sitting for 2 and a half hours so far. It's now on my list of "don't come back".

Tomorrow though I've got a good load booked that'll take me down to Southern GA. Hope there is room a that FJ to park tonight...