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Glad to hear you are getting lots of miles! Good luck with orientation 2 and with your finishing trainer. I am scheduled for orientation at Stevens on March 21 however I may get moved up (I hope). Keep us posted!

 

It has been a very interesting time since my last post. After unloading in CA we were told to bobtail to a truckstop and take a trailer from a driver who had just started a 34 hour reset. From what I inderstand, this trailer had a refer unit that was pre-programmed for our next load.

Once we arrived at the truckstop we tried to locate the truck/trailer and driver. The truck was found, however, the driver did not answer knocks at his door or repeated calls to his cell phone. We went inside the truckstop and had him paged. Nothing.

We went back to his truck and knocked again. This time he pulled back the curtain indicating he was inside. He was talkling on the phone and he did not appear to be happy. I could only guess the person on the other end of the line was a dispatcher. When he did manage to exit the truck and speak to us, he was visibly angry and confrontational. In my opinion he acted like a spoiled child who was not getting his way. After telling us that we were thieves and taking money out of his pocket he was in no way going to unhook from the trailer. The conduct he demonstrated was completely unprofessional. I can understand him not wanting to unhook but there are other ways of going about it.

a few hours of wasted time later another trailer was located and it was off to Yuma, AZ to pick up a load that had five pickups (4 in Yuma and 1 in Rio Rico). The entire day was spent waiting at the four stops to get loaded. Then it was a several hour drive to Rio Rico for the final stop before going to the final desstination of Iowa.

While in Rio Rico dispatch sent a message over the qualcomm to swap loads with a driver in Tucson. We went back to Tucson ans switched. After a few hours rest it was back on the road for a 500 mile run to CA to deliver a load of meat.

So I am now here waiting to unload.

 

It has been a very interesting time since my last post. After unloading in CA we were told to bobtail to a truckstop and take a trailer from a driver who had just started a 34 hour reset. From what I inderstand, this trailer had a refer unit that was pre-programmed for our next load.

Once we arrived at the truckstop we tried to locate the truck/trailer and driver. The truck was found, however, the driver did not answer knocks at his door or repeated calls to his cell phone. We went inside the truckstop and had him paged. Nothing.

We went back to his truck and knocked again. This time he pulled back the curtain indicating he was inside. He was talkling on the phone and he did not appear to be happy. I could only guess the person on the other end of the line was a dispatcher. When he did manage to exit the truck and speak to us, he was visibly angry and confrontational. In my opinion he acted like a spoiled child who was not getting his way. After telling us that we were thieves and taking money out of his pocket he was in no way going to unhook from the trailer. The conduct he demonstrated was completely unprofessional. I can understand him not wanting to unhook but there are other ways of going about it.

a few hours of wasted time later another trailer was located and it was off to Yuma, AZ to pick up a load that had five pickups (4 in Yuma and 1 in Rio Rico). The entire day was spent waiting at the four stops to get loaded. Then it was a several hour drive to Rio Rico for the final stop before going to the final desstination of Iowa.

While in Rio Rico dispatch sent a message over the qualcomm to swap loads with a driver in Tucson. We went back to Tucson ans switched. After a few hours rest it was back on the road for a 500 mile run to CA to deliver a load of meat.

So I am now here waiting to unload.

 

After unloading we were sent to a small town near Los Angeles for a load heading to Indiana. Stuck at a truckstop in eastern New Mexico because I-40 is closed due to snow. Hopefully tommorow we can be on our way.

 

The Tyson in Carnage, Tx, Pt. II. Well gents, I have a new finishing trainer because my 1st one got routed back to the yard to get a new truck which won't be ready for 4 days. Oh well, the one I have now is an Owner-Op who bought his Freightliner Century Classic from Stevens and it is governed at 78MPH. He is a self admitted miles chaser instead of a MPG chaser. It's nice to be able to go the speed limit and blow the doors off other Stevens trucks that are toodling down the highway. It's going to spoil me, once I get my Grad Fleet truck it will be governed at 62mph, which will proverbially suck. Now the rest of the story. We got a load assignment to pick up ay everybody's favorite place in the world, the Tyson plant in CARTHAGE, TX!! YEAAAYYY!!! Anyhow, our appointment time was 0700-1700 yesterday the 29th of January. We knew that it would late, so we didn't check in until 16:15, and then went to the little truck stop down the road and decided to just park it for the night and pick it up in the morning. Well, we got up at 0630 and drove over there to pick up our trailer. We get there and guess what? You got it, they haven't even touched the trailer yet!! I went in to find out what was going on and lo and behold, there was not a soul in there. So here we get to sit until God knows when for a load that was supposed to be ready yesterday. I swear, that place has to have the most incompetent, lazy phucks in the western hemisphere working there. I assure you, once I get off grad fleet and into Alliance I will not accept a load assignment to this armpit of the world known as Tyson in Carnage, TX. For you new guys and gals, good luck to you if you ever get a load assignment to this craphole. Thanks for letting me vent and rant, and hope everyone is doing well and being safe out there.

 

We left Moriarty, NM yesterday and it took us 8 hours to travel 250 miles to Amarillo. The line of trucks eastbound was as far as the eye could see in both directions. The road was still icy and not safe for travel.

Once we arrived in Amarillo my trainer had a PM done on his truck (he is an O/O with a freightshaker) before shutting down for the night. As of this post 1215 CDT we are still sitting here and waiting for the roads to clear up enough for safe passage.

Our appointment at wally world distribution center in Indiana has been put back from today to Sunday.

The weather this week has been detrimental to getting the miles.