Estes express lines, Buffalo NY. How is the Extra board?

This guy is a extraboard driver at Estes, but his home terminal is Little Rock, AR, there is a bunch of information on his channel about the company: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXNl93o6TVBkIKUsyLlNWEA/videos

 

Download copilot truck gps to your smart phone it’s like $10 a month then cancel it whenever you see fit. The Estes linehaul site will have good final mile directions to the terminal you’re dispatched to. Use those directions and you shouldn’t have any trouble.

 

You should easily do 2500-2900+ miles a week running NY,NJ,PA,VA,MD,MA,CT and Ohio.. Don’t stress too much just be thankful you’re learning to pull doubles this time of year and pay attention to everything your trainer or trainers show you. Don't be afraid to ask him or her questions and bring a pad of paper and write down some notes if you have a chance to ride the first night. Hard saying how long you’ll be on the extraboard. For me it’s was only a few months but it could take a year or more till you get a bid.

 

No need to get in your head too much about doubles. The two main things you want to avoid is anywhere you'd need to back up and excessively hard steering inputs. I'd imagine they might get a little more squirrelly in the winter, but I've never had to pull them in winter weather, and you'll have some months of practice by then. Don't work yourself up over then too much. Pulling sets isn't bad at all.

 

Double pups are fun, not in the winter tho

 

Mack do the Estes Terminals usually have their own scales? Or do you have to scale out at the truck stops? I'm assuming Estes reimburses for scale tickets like most companies do if you have to scale at the truck stops.

And probably a dumb question but if you scale out a set of doubles do you have to tell the truck stop employees that you're scaling out doubles instead of a 53'er?