My move to Bruce Oakley (Oakley trucking inc)

There are women over here pulling end dumps, I’m 56, still in reasonably decent shape, hopefully at the end of summer I will be a few pounds lighter.

My wife loves to remind me I’m not 20 something anymore.

 

As another week comes to an end I had a pretty productive week. After getting empty on Monday in Calvert City, Kentucky they bounced me up to Evansville, Indiana to pick up a load of (shred) going to a steel mill in Pittsboro, Indiana. Delivered that the same day.

Then I bounced to St. Louis and spent four days doing barge work. Basically hauling loads off of barges in various River ports around the St Louis area to a storage facility. Short round trips averaging about 10-12 miles. When doing this barge work you get paid a percentage rate. You start about 0700 until the barge is unloaded, most days we were done between 1600-1700.

Two positives things I took from this was, dump repetitions, each day I dumped between 7-9 times a day. So in four days, I got a months worth of dumping. And with the current cost of fuel in four days I burned 3/4 of a tank of fuel.

This morning I loaded at a rock quarry in Terre Haute going to the town I live in Florida for a Monday morning delivery. I will get to spend tomorrow at the house as a bonus. I’m not scheduled to be home until next weekend. My daughter is coming into town from San Diego for Easter.

My check won’t be as good as last week, but I should still net over $3800.

 

I go in there all the time to shop, literally the stone I’m hauling is the stone we have around our pool. I called them today to make sure I’m delivering to the main location and not there other location which has a lot more room. He said “yep, it delivers to this location” doesn’t seem big enough to get in there with a 40ft trailer. Do you actually back up to the bin or dump in front of the bin?

 

Will do, going to try and post weekly updates. Which division are you going into? Feel free to add your perspective here once you go through orientation.