FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

I’m going home after I deliver in Clayton but conditions weren’t great so I went ahead and shut down in South Jacksonville, Illinois to wait out the weather. I’m going to be home for nearly a week (doctors appointments on Monday and Friday) so there’s no reason to rush. It was slow going today on 36 and I-72, for all that I only saw 3 trucks in the ditches (2 embarrassing winchouts and one expensive looking rollover).

 

Only been sitting here for an hour and this is my view out of the windshield

 

Congratulations on your new truck!

I've never seen the inside of an international truck. Will it fit a condo refrigerator (Like the ones in the Freightliners) if you wanted to have one?

 

Apparently i get turned into a regional driver for my last week on the road before hometime. If i ever get out of Indy, i’m to drop this trailer in Shelby, IA then pick up another one going to a Menards store in Norfolk. Then i run to Aurora to pick up a load going to Lancaster. I used to do that run all the time when i was on SWR

My truck will be way overdue for service but oh well. Can’t help it if dispatch keeps me away but then routes me through the Omaha area on the weekend…

I would go back to SWR if i could avoid DFW

 

Roads look like this. I don’t have much reason to believe they’ll be better in the morning

 

Delivered this morning in Roca NE. Dispatch sends a message to head to Valley to drop my trailer and he was working on a load for me.

Get to the 77N exit and he calls and lets me know my load. Irrigation parts from valley going to Tifton GA for Monday. The load took a few hours to come out after I got there, but all is well. Secured the load and got my paperwork. Left valley with 4 hrs on my clock. I don’t think I’ll get a 34 this weekend. I’ll do some math on that later and see if it’s worth it.

 

i don’t know why most manufacturers think that small fridges with tiny freezer compartments are acceptable for sleeper trucks. I mean the one in my Peterbilt was okay when i was on SWR since i only needed food for a handful of days. But when i went back OTR, i had them take the passenger seat out and i got an actual fridge i could use from Menards

That’s the biggest advantage of having a Freightliner here is that FCC actually puts a fridge worth a #### in them

 

The simple answer is that the size of the fridge needs to jive with the size of the cabinets. Can’t fit a 24” wide fridge in an 18” cabinet. There’s probably a pretty large percentage of people that don’t care one way or the other. The truck I got in 2019 was the first one I owned with a factory fridge. I hardly used it, sometimes I’d turn it on and maybe keep some sandwich stuff and drinks in it. My current truck is the first one where I’ve used it on a regular basis.