Need a Update on May

I work for Swift.......Gps is a powerful tool. I mostly use the map. but when you get in to a large city I input the address in Gps and follow the directions the give me over the Qualcomm. But with the Gps i know that abc street is up 4 miles ahead or 1 mile before the street. that way i know the street is near and i can get ready for it. Plus this has happen to few times its 0300 and raining and those little street signs can be a pain in the rear end to read but with My Gps low and behold i know what street that is and if its mine but i bet that has never happen to you. Let me Guess you don't have a cell phone most place have pay phones right? I used them to in the Army Gps
1st Iraq war Desert Shield/Storm and I used them in Afghanistan they have improved

 

A map will do the same thing and can be used anywhere. then again the intelligence has been taken out of truck driving so any steer-wheel holding four wheeler wannabe can sit in the seat and play trucker.

 

So Rand McNally Motor Carriers' Road Atlas when I look at it will show me lets say in
Hattiesburg, MS when i get off Interstate 59 exit 67b. That It is 2.3 miles to Rawls spring loop rd wow did not know that also if its raining outs side or foggy and or night time it will show me were to turn because on that road its sign is on the other side of hwy 49 going south cant see it going north. hmmmm. So if i use a Gps to help me I am a wannabe truck driver that has no Intelligence. Even tho i was an 88m in the army drove every thing from a hemtt to a Super het carrying a 68ton tank in Germany drove in Bosnia and Afghanistan hell a couple times get shot at in Afghanistan well driving a Hemtt caring Fuel
wow and these past 5 years I was just a steer-wheel holding in the USA because of a GPS

 

I was an 0311 in the Corps. crawled throw deserts and jungles. Across mountains all across this planets. An did all of it with a map and a compass. No GPS bs. Been trucking 18 years. Have found every shipper and receiver. planed how to get between the to with a Map. From Prudoe Bay Ak to Mamie Fl from San Diego to Bangor Me. So have thousands of other drivers. GPS is nothing more then a way for big brother to track you.

 

Wow, I wish we could all be as experienced as you Give me a break...post traumatic stress, possibly? Do you really think you are a better trucker just because you use a map? Please.

 

Because I use a map instead of some mechine. Oh yea. Because I can read a map. Heck yes.

 

It's hard for me to believe that you can read a map when you can't spell. I guess spellcheck is a tool that you aren't using either

 

I've been with May for a year now. They are hiring and they also have drivers waiting on trucks depending on the city you will be based out of. If they feel you will be a good driver they will get you out quickly if not immediately, if you are waiting, move on, they've made the decision you just haven't accepted it yet.

Good company all around, have reduced layover to $52 after the first 24 hours but they are seriously cracking down on what qualifies. If you are dispatched a pre-plan load but it doesn't load for two days, no layover!!! That is how they beat you, you technically are under a load if you have a preplan load.

Biggest problem right now, avg 2000 miles weekly. How?:

(day 1) Load at shipper - loading takes 4 hours - trip is 700 miles, takes one day (600 miles - governed at 60 mph) (day 2) and approx two hours the next day - unloading takes 4 hours, dispatched next morning for load (day 3) at 14:00 (2:00 pm), loading takes 4 hours - trip is another 900 miles, (days 4 & 5) one day at 600 miles and another day at 300 miles, (day 6) unloads next morning - takes 4 hours unload - dispatched load for (day 7) loading next morning at 10:00 am - loading takes 2 hours - trip is 400 miles (which you get some or all in that day) - (day 8) unloads 17:00 (5:00 pm) next day -

This has been a variation of my schedule for the last 3 months. So it SEEMS that you always have a load and are continually moving with no layover but you see how the days dissolve and then by the end of the week somewhere around 2000 miles give or take 150 depending on the week.

Is the same for 30 or s0 drivers I communicate with regularly at May and has been for the same time frame.

 

I have been accepted by May, and will be starting on Oct. 6, unless I can find a local job first. I was told that they no longer use Volvo, just Freightliner and Peterbilt. Now, maybe this was just for the Brooks terminal, I don't know. I did see a May Volvo across the street from my residence.
I was also accepted by Swift, so I have to decide who to go with if I don't find a local job. If I wasn't new, I would like to go with Watkins Sheppard(sp). But, being new, I would like a few weeks with somebody showing me the ropes.

 

Kabar, your posts are filled with spelling and grammatical errors. Typing in big red font doesn't make you any more credible. It makes your posts a nusuance to read.

17 years in trucking good for you. Fact be known us new guys can't be picky in the employment choices right now.

So how about it? Can you post like the rest of us?

Maybe there is an "ignore this poster's posts" button here?