FedEx Ground Linehaul with JohnBoy

Thanks brother. Sorry for the late response, back at it and it’s like learning to walk all over again.

 

Well, back in the saddle the past week. Left the house a week ago Sunday with a rental car. As I was getting ready to leave, I got a phone call from my contractor asking if I would mind driving up to Humboldt to help out instead of Savannah. So I agreed and headed to Humboldt. Got as far as Troy Alabama and got a hotel room. Woke up Monday morning and finished the trip. The truck I was going into was still in the shop getting a new fuel pump so I spent Monday through Thursday in the hotel. The hotel, rental car and gas was all on the companies dime.

Because I was out for over 30 days, I had to take a drug test, so that was handled Tuesday. Thursday we picked up my truck at the dealer, a 2024 Cascadia with 140K on the clock. Clean and no damage. I moved in Thursday then was asked if I would mind doing equipment moves Friday and Saturday. I was paid for the whole week while sitting on my arse in the hotel room, so why not.

The equipment move turned out to be bobtailing to the Great Dane plant in Jonesboro Ark and bringing back one of the 350 new FedEx dry vans to Memphis. I did 4 round trips on Friday and 3 on Saturday. Then I was told to bobtail to Murfreesboro and spend the night. Woke up yesterday morning at 0500 and was dispatched with a Northern Kentucky run. 297 loaded miles up and 297 empty miles back. And let me tell you, my arse was dragging by the time I got back. Now I’m sitting in Murfreesboro waiting on a dispatch back to Savannah.

It feels great to be back, not one after effect of my surgery, and just feeling great. I want to retire, not because of the demands of the easiest job I’ve ever had in my short 44 years in trucking, but because it’s time to enjoy the coffee. I was home for exactly 3 months, and once I got over the hump of recovery, I enjoyed doing things around the house, helping my wife with real estate, and playing with our 2 high maintenance dogs. We are going to Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam for 3 weeks in February. At that time, it will be the end of this. Just got dispatched, time to make the donuts.

 

Boy you aren’t kidding! Right now in both our lives you can knock us over with a feather. Like you said, I got the taste of the good life, my days are numbered.