Nightmare first load

Sorry its been a while since I last posted. I have been very busy with the schnieder training.

I went through the 14 days academy, 2 weeks with a TE, and a week CDL prep and Cdl test. Then went to houston to get my truck found a lot of problems on my pretrip on the truck. Set in houston a week waiting for them to get the truck fixed.

Got my first assignment at about 3:00pm this past thursday it was simple take an empty trailer from Houston, TX to Reserve, LA by 8:00pm
I-10 east the whole way. Did my pretrip on the trailer and found 2 out lights, took it through express bay got the lights fixed around 5:00pm and headed out.
Lights on trailer went out not far past LA line pulled off at Jennings LA went to tun into what I thought was the truck stop driveway. But relised immediately that I messed up and was stuck it was seperated from the truck stop and not big enought to turn around in so police had to block traffic so I could back out onto the highway. Finaly got to the truck stop and set there for a few mins looked into mr mirrows and the trailer lights was on again. Decided to chance it so I got back on to I-10 and made to Baton rouge before they went out again. The flashers still worked on the trailer but the running lights didn't so I just turned the flashers on and kept going. Got to reserve about 10:30pm Droped the trailer and finaly shutting down about 11:00pm.

Looked at the qualcom and seen I had already got my next load and Had to pick it up by 7:00AM the next morning. And had to deliver at 3:00pm on th west side of houston. Which my DOT break wasn't up until 9:00AM and I still had to trip plan, do my mac 17, and my paper work on the load, and shower. It got overwhelming. and after what I went through the night before it just got too much so the only solution I seen at the moment was to quit so I sent in a No commit on the load and put quitting for reason.

The OC manager came out to my truck and talked to me He told me to take a couple days off with pay and rethink it which I'm glad he did and earned a great deal of my respect for schnieder.

I want to go back and try again but am afraid to. I don't know If I just wasn't prepared to handle loads that tight or was it tight me being new I have know idea if that is normal loads good loads or was actually tight thats why I came here maybe some one from this sight that has more EXP can help me decide to go back or not.

Is this way all the time or was these runs really tight like they felt.

Sorry this is so long just wanted to get the whole experiance in here to see if this is how it always is or if it was just bad luck.

Thanx,
Bamaman

 

Thank you that truely does help. My experience with the TE was always 2 or 3 day loads was much easier but he was OTR and I am regional And have no exp with these same day loads. so guess I just wasn't ready for them. I gonna go back and try again my STL said he would slow it down for me for a while. I'm still getting th garantee so not worried about the miles yet just want to learn the job first then worry about miles later. A good thing about the truck is its probably one of the fastest schnieder trucks LOL someone rewired the rat box so it doesn't record over speed so if I hold it to the floor I can get about 66- 67 MPH without it deducting from my bonus. versus the 63 from other schnieder trucks. Nor does it record idle time.