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A new guy had started the week you left. He's now gone, well technical he's been gone since November, but that was pretty much his schedule.. I would love to do PTP if it was more hometime

 

Wow, I'm really starting to wonder if I'm making a good decision about the ptp position I'm about to start. Granted it's in CA, and I believe it's a new position or fairly new. I hope we don't have that problem up here about the home time. But I guess time will tell.

 

I mean you gonna get home every weekend that's without question but it's gonna be more of 34-44 hours at home

 

Anyone else get stuck on 20 east at the 140 in Alabama for 6 hours today?

 

Luckily I got through there last night. when I pulled into the loves in moody last night and saw an empty spot I took it. It was a good choice. It was closed there at the 149 going east for a good while today because nobody could get up those hills. I left when it opened around 1130 but it still took me almost 4hrs to get from there to the ga line.

I sat an hour at the 206 then an hour at the 211 this afternoon because of truck wrecks. Conditions from mm190 to the line are not good.

Conditions into Ga are much better.

 

Can some of you Virginia guys tell me what areas you run out of Richmond? I applied for both PTP and LTL out of Richmond. Is it just a yard or a full on distribution center. I'm hoping to hear back from recruiting soon.

 

It's a drop yard. We have some spaces at the swift terminal over by the airport off of Charles city blvd.

One of those guys will have to tell you what to expect as far as lanes/customers. I'm out of NC and we run a lot of LTL relays up there to drop from the DC. We have our usual backhauls out of there but not sure how often you'd run them since they come back to nc.

 

I'm one of the 3 guys out of Richmond, I can give you a snap shot of LTL out of Richmond the best I can.

We usually home every night, on occasions we stay out for a night for multiple of reasons, but most days can last from as little as 4 hours to as long as the whole 14, usually the average is around 10 hours a day,most weeks I work around 50-55 a week.

Out of Richmond we get everything in and around Richmond, Northern VA (No D.C.) Winchester, Martinsburg WV, Charles Town WV, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and the Tidewater area.

We on occasion get Covington, Romney WV, Keyser WV, Lynchburg and places along US 58 from Danville back over to Suffolk. The LTL guys usually get that straight out of NC.

Most of the places are pretty accessible to get into, they're some places in Northern VA and Tidewater that can make you ask why did you take this job but it's far few and between. It's great money here but it's some stress that comes with it, from routing, planning and the loaders (whom I'm convinced couldn't... naw not even gonna do it here) but if you could put up with it, it's worth it. Anything I didn't cover feel free to ask.

 

Our thoughts about some of the planners on the ptp side

Sometimes they just leave you scratching your head and asking.......why did you do that? lol

I just don't even question it anymore. Just do what comes over the box no matter how much it doesn't make sense

 

Bro it's just as bad on the LTL side... you should see some of the routes I've had since the New Year, there's times I literally look at the PeopleNet in pure amazement... and my (whom couldnt even....) comment was about the loaders, before someone sees this in Wisconsin and decides to try and have some fun with me lol