Calex Express....My New Home!

They start you at what you tell them you want to do. Good luck. Let me know how it goes. I'll check the blog over the weekend. Time for some beauty sleep.

 

Yes he is. They don't play any games like having you come to Pittston and after a day tell you something came back on your background checks. When they tell you to come to Pittston you have a job.

 

Thanks man. I really try to tell exactly how it plays out. I've read your thread and enjoy what you have to say. Keep it going.

 

Well I'm sitting here in Gallup NM taking my 10hr break so I thought I'd bring everyone up to speed about the last 2 days. I left Las Vegas 5am Thursday morning with my reset complete and a one pick up load of Celery in Oxnard. Garylobo left the night before so I met him at the TA in Barstow and had breakfast. He still hadn't gotten his dispatch yet so I left and headed to Oxnard. I knew that a celery load is loaded just as soon as you get there, there's no waiting on cooling or gas like the strawberry load I had last month. After getting to the cooler, checking in and immediately given a door I noticed I would have enough time to get loaded and get back to Barstow and take a 10hr break before heading east. Boy was I wrong. Before loading started I asked how many pallets there would be, 22, ok, how much do the pallets weigh, 1850lbs each, ok, so after an hour of loading I go to get my paper work, I look at the weight and it say's 46,950lbs. I looked at the shipping clerk and said I couldn't carry that much weight, she told me to go weigh at the truck stop and to come back and they'll make the adjustments. I had a single pallet in the nose and a single pallet in the second to last row. I asked her why would they load a trailer and not give the correct weight BEFORE loading. She told me that a lot of drivers never scale their trucks and once they leave it's their headache. Well I told her I would be back shortly. I went to scale out and guess what? 37,900 on drives, 32.600 on the trailer and 12,800 on the steer. Grand total of 83,300. What do I know? I just drive this thing. After getting back to the shipper, they back me right in and agreed to take 2 pallets off. The only problem was the whole load had to come off so I could put another single pallet in the front half of the trailer so I could adjust my axles. After an hour of listening to these people argue about who was going to do it I finally got it reworked and went to reweigh. I slid my axles before weighing then weighed. It came to 34,100, 33,100, and 12,200. Done, legal and now out of hours for the day. So I took my break in Oxnard and left 2am local time this morning. I just finished fueling and am in the process of taking my 10 hour break. That's it for now. Oh, Garylobo finally got dispatched with 2 p/u's in Watsonville that loaded today. He's a day behind me and delivers the same place I am in Milton PA.

 

Yes they do. You probably saw me early this morning going through Hesperia.