Now back at Knight

Very short update. I am really liking the truck I was issued. It rides nice, and only has 130k on it. I am on my way to Idaho with a 7000# load. So, the mountains are no problem. Delivery is a little stretched, but I may be able to deliver early, just have to see.

 

I am trying to figure out how much I can say on here. Having a job at all is so important right now. I already have a hospital suing my wife and I for a remaining portion of a surgery bill. After the little disaster at "Barr-Nunn but Me", I can not afford any more time for orientations, ect.

But I will say this much, I have not had a single 34 restart so far this month. Yeah, its almost been a month now. I have had some good longer runs, and my loads have averaged about 750 miles, just guessing. My dispatcher is somewhat new, and prone to mistakes. I was late to one delivery, which comes down to my fault, on a technical error. I ran out of hours, and thought I was still ok, but it turns out I misfigured my trip plan badly.

The E-Logs! I am not having fun with e-logs thus far. I am still keeping paper logs, since the E-log system seems to fail frequently and tells me to keep paper logs. I do not see how this system is ever going to replace paper.

I am currently between loads, waiting for Walmart to give me an empty. Every weekend thus far, I have had a enough pre-plans to get me thru till Monday. I am amazed to say, I have never finished one load thus far without a pre-plan. This is a difference from my prior time at Knight. While the miles haven't been good enough to run out my 70, I have been on the road driving every day out here. And to me, that seems pretty good. Considering where things are going, and how they have been. I am very close to 10,000 miles added to the truck this month.

 

To expand on the E-log issue, I frequently get the message:

HOS MESSAGE
INVALID ODOMETER READING. PLEASE KEEP
PAPER LOGS SINCE 07/17 17:41 (CENTRAL
DAYLIGHT TIME)