My Adventure with JBS Carriers Greeley, Colorado

Truckinshadow I would not call it kissing ### at all, You just have to know how to butter the biscuit, but then again it comes from 22 years driving knowing what you have to do to get the miles to make the money. And when you refer to the trucks that have been turned down you are right, at 65 mph you can still run 715 miles in 11 hours, If you start at 12:00 am run 11 take a 10 and run the 3 hours left you can end up with a 985 day.

I left oakwood Me at 1200 am EST thursday, I pulled into Grapevine Tx at 0530 Saturday EST, 2100 miles got unloaded Monday (spent two days at My Mothers house in Grapevine) and I load out of Ft Worth at (Freezer Hell) Millards for Michigan on Thursday, 1360 miles, not a bad week. But then again as you said I "kissed butt" Which I find to be rather funny as I seem to catch more hell from Safety, Operations and HR than most people. I seem to be under a Microscope at all times, I do the job and I make sure they do theirs, ride me and I will ride them.
I can say this Since the switch of Operations with the 3.5 days and having new DM I have seen that alot of Drivers are favorites, then again we have alot of Winnebago drivers here, you know the ones who want to go here and spend 2 days, go here spend 2 more days etc. and they get what they want, we have a few drivers who think they are above delivering their loads, constants swappers. I just refused a delivery for one of them he is less than 10 miles from the delivery with plenty of hours, yet he wants to take my load and have me deliver his load NOT happening.

 

Grasshopper,
40 CPM goes to pay by experience And the Fat Guy who used to be in the orientation Jeff who rolled a Bull Wagon is now a Recruiter, lol
And NOW JBS Hires Students right out of School, Ken is now the "Trainer Manager" whatever that is or means.

 

Truckin Shadow,
I agree with you 100% it takes time to learn how to back up in many different situations, there is an old saying "what does not kill us will only make us stronger " well that is true in trucking too, From Backing to accidents, we should always be learning something,

 

Well November was a good month as for mileage 15200 paid for the month, Ended up home a Half day early, and I have a Dr. Appointment on Tuesday, then back out. There are many new changes coming down the pipe from what I hear in the Office it will be interesting to see what comes next.