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Ended up doing a relay situation with another driver needing to go home -- picked up his Palmyra load in London, OH. Anyone know if we pick up in Palmyra or do we just drop off loaded trailers and take empties elsewhere for a reload?

 

Must've been @57 model's truck

Glad you're having a good week out west. Should have a good pay check fitting in another load before Friday.

I ended up picking up at Hershey -- Palmyra. Only 19,000 pounds and most of driving will be after 10pm, so should be an easy ride back. It said delivery date was 7/14, but idk if they'll let me drop it tomorrow or not. Either way, I'll be back in Climate territory with 18 or so hours for the weekend. Should work out well for a Texas or Colorado load or something for a Monday delivery, but we'll see how it shakes out. Travis likes sending me the Fulton loads like once a week, so it might end up being that instead lol

 

I was around Harrisburg Pa today. Reminded me of all the times I went to hershey's at Palmyra. Dumped wheat up at Selinsgrove Pa. Which if I remember correctly I went north of there before up to sunbury or up that way for a climate back haul. It's 11 an 15 north out of harrisburg or ya can run up 22. Both come north off of 81.

 

The Mrs. is going through all the hoops to renew her medical card. She seems real anxious to get back to work.

 

Currently sitting at a hotel in mobile Alabama. Breakdown day two in the books. The black box you see on top of newer freightliner windshields is a rain sensor and basically controls the speed of the windshield wipers. That sensor is hanging loose only hanging on by the wires plugged into it. The adaptive brakes and cruise are affected by this as well. The freightliner is waiting on a bracket to put the sensor back up. They’ve recalibrated all the other stuff. But that hanging sensor was very distracting needless to say. I am under a load of milk going to a federal prison in Mississippi. Maybe gods trying to tell me something lol

 

Climate Express basic questions:

• Can somebody clarify what are Climate's preferred hiring areas?
• If I stay out more than 2 weeks -- can I stay home more than 2 days? If so -- please specify the details.
• Does a hazmat endorsement ever come in handy? What about a tanker endorsement?

-- L

 

I used my tanker endorsement one time in the 6 yrs i was there. It was a back haul out of Wisconsin that required it. Don't remember the particulars. Climate doesn't haul hazmat. With that being said, I did haul something one time that for whatever reason it only required placards in mexico or some crazy weird thing. But it wasn't considered hazardous in the states. Again the details are a little foggy cuz it's the only time in 30 yrs that I've ran across such a thing like that. They were always pretty flexible on hometime for me an the wife. They do say up front not to count on banking days off for multiple weeks out. That's just my experience from when I was there. @bryan21384 can add more details.