An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

more companies should do that

 

aww man you’re no fun

 

Just depends where u running. 700 miles east of i35 is a hell of a feat. A guy would proabably have a stroke by the age of 35 trying to run those miles out there.. half the day is dealing with the turtle races and the tards that pull their 62mph truck out in front of you in a 75mph zone 10 ft from ur bumper ND u got a full head of steam going. After they been behind the guy in front of them for 20 miles.

Anything in the western 11 not including California is pretty easy to bang out 700 miles if u have a truck that does better than 65. Pretty stress free driving

 

They have no respect for the drivers-they are large, so the little guys are given the finger and laughed at, they pay less than 2.00 a mile so you're not getting rich.

 

Well in my continuing effort to run oversize loads like a box jockey with his hair on fire…at least that’s what it feels like sometimes.

last Friday I delivered my Alaska load in dallas, then went to the yard and dropped that trailer. Saturday I moved two trailers across town, stretched them, loaded/tarpped the small crates, and put them inside so the customer could load the wings over the weekend. I then went to Wichita to grab one of the wing trailers for the next set and squeezed in a reset.

Monday we left out on the wings about noon and made it part way across Arkansas. Tuesday we only made it to holiday, TN because one of our pilot cars lost a read end. That put us a day behind but we delivered in Toronto around 1pm today. That’s puts me at 10,300 miles for the month.

Now I’m heading straight back to texas to do another round Monday. We should deliver Thursday or Friday and I should
Make it back to Wichita by Monday the 31st. Not to count my chickens before they hatch but that will be 14,500 miles for the month. I’m already tired and ready for my April home time. The first 8700 was all legal freight.

 

those pilot cars must be pretty crappy. You always seem to be reporting that they have problems of some sort

 

Some of the absolute best in the business. It’s just a $70k pickup truck doesn’t pencil out for this operation. The guy runs 8 drivers. The owner loaded one of his other trucks on a trailer, drove 650 miles, and was there around midnight to swap out trucks so we could continue on with the load.

 

I’d say it’s definitely time for a break, sheezzh…