Calex Express....My New Home!

Well all, I got home from Bike week today and have to get ready to leave in the am. I need to call into dispatch to see where I'll be loading at. I'll be in touch during the week. Be safe and God Bless.

 

Well it's time to go back to work. My dispatcher Louie called and woke me up at 7AM this morning with load information. I have to dead head up to Griffin GA. for a drop and hook tonight with a 2 stopper going to MA and PA. I'll be empty Thursday and headed back home Friday. Be safe all, I'll check back in during the week.

 

Welcome to the forum. If you read the whole blog you will get all the information you need. If you have any questions please ask. There are a few of us drivers here that will be glad to answer any questions you might have. With the size of Calex, there is only a safety dept. run by Jim and Mort. We don't have a recruiting dept. When there's a need for a driver they will put and ad out and go from there. Calex is not a big company, they run approximately 165 trucks, which makes for a very personal and friendly company. We are not a training company or a driver mill. I happen to live in Florida with 3 other drivers and it makes for a very efficient way of doing things. Living at either end of our freight lanes allows for us to be home on a regular basis which makes for a better driving experience. Good luck with your app. and if you have any questions just ask.

 

Hello all, I got home last night around 6pm after a rather productive week. I left the house Monday morning and dead headed up to Griffin GA for a drop and hook for a 2 stopper in Uxbridge MA and Mountaintop PA. I got the trailer around 8pm and took my 10 hour break at the SC welcome center. Got up and hit the road knowing I had a long day in front of me. I must say, leaving the left door shut and taking care of business really works. I made it up to Frystown Pa and took my 10 break there with the unfortunate realization that I had 330 miles left to make my noon apt on time Wednesday. I got a parking space at 7:30 Tuesday night. I pulled in straight and did some paperwork and went to bed, around 11pm The truck next to me decided to start playing very LOUD music that rocked me right out of bed. I figured it wouldn't be a problem so I got dressed and knocked on his/her door to ask him/her if they could please be a little considerate and lower the music. Well, you would have thought I disrespected his mother/kids dog and goldfish. The guy came unglued and cursed me to no end. I wasn't about to get into a pissing match with him so I told him thanks for his understanding and got back in my truck and decided to pull out and turn around to back into the same spot. That worked fine and back to bed I went. I woke up and got ready to leave at 5:30. Before leaving I had this brilliant Idea, now believe me, I don't hold any grudges toward anyone, but this guy really fried my backside the night before. So what did I do? I sat in my truck drinking a cup of coffee and hitting my brakes continually until I figured he woke up then left. It was my little payback for a very bad nights sleep and having to deal with this husband/wife team of steering wheel holders. After leaving I was thinking about all the traffic I was going to hit at prime time rush hour and decided to go up 287 to the Tappan Zee bridge, across the Cross Westchester Expressway then up 95 so I would miss the GW/Cross Bronx and all that mess. It all worked out perfectly, I got to my noon apt. at noon. Now, I need to give some praise to BJ's distribution center. By the time I got to the guard house, to the time I got unloaded and was sitting at the truck staging area eating a sandwich, the total elapsed time from start to finish was 45 minutes, and that was to drop 33 pallets of product. The whole operation and treatment was truly unbelievable! Hats off to BJ's. I called into dispatch to find out about my second drop which was 300 miles away and was told to go there and to drop the trailer and have someone sign my bills. I got there around 8pm, spotted the trailer in door 9 had my bills signed and went the 17 miles back up to the yard to spend the night. The next morning around 5AM I got up and went up to the Petro and took a shower. While I was in there I got a load dispatch that was a drop and hook in Lock Haven PA going to Vero Beach FL for Monday at noon. I was hooked to my new trailer and on my way at 8AM and got my load at noon then headed south. I got home last night about 6pm and will be home until Monday morning then go to Vero Beach to unload. This weeks total was as follows:

3295 paid miles
No touch freight
Left Monday at 10am
Got Home Friday at 6pm

I must say, this isn't bad for a driving job. Be safe all and God Bless!

 

I told the unloader/checker that they need to sell their warehouse operation to other companies or at least hold training seminars to show other warehouses how it's done. Are you listening Wakefern?

 

Yes I have. Far too many times that I wanted too. I haven't been there in many years though.