First major issue with my truck....

ok...that was a 'program' that swift did, what....2-3 yrs before i came on board? nobody told me about it during orientation, never heard about it from other drivers who had been around that long.....so how was i to know unless i asked? Since i didnt ask anybody it was obvious it wasnt important, or that i didnt care. probably both.

 

goofus, i was being funny....hence the ".....i think" and the smiley face at the end.

and for you and rug trucker, how long has this "hhahah you said belts but your engine only needs one" joke been going on? like a week? If you honestly think i dont look at my truck but once a week, you're more dumb than you think i am.

But i will tell you one thing.....i can sit in any truck stop, or any terminal for that matter, and see which drivers do an actual pretrip on their trucks. I'll even go as far as to say that probably 1 out of every 10-20 drivers does an actual pretrip in the morning. If you dont lift your hood, you're not doing a full pretrip. why do you think i said 'belts' in that post, what..a week ago? 5 days ago? then someone comes on and says "hahaha you''re dumb, your engine only has 1 belt"....and you think i'm the id10t because i didnt correct them? i probably could have gone out right then and there and took my camera and took a picture. But i just didnt care. And when i DO my pretrips, sorry. i forget my camera again....but i'm more interested in getting my load on the road than making anybody on some internet site happy or satisfied. i'm to the point, i could care less about correcting. i'm just going to let you all believe what you want, live in your own world where your milk is blue.

some of you really need to start drinking or something, cause you're obviously wound way to tight for your own good.

 

who said i despise mom and pop outfits, just because i said they wont last past 2015?

if there is one thing about this industry i've found out....is that drivers are so quick to start with the "richard" measuring like, "...Well I'm only a year older than you but guess what? I've been holding a steering wheel since I was 21. I bought my truck when I was 30. I drove 9 years ,4 for a mega carrier,5 for the mom and pop outfit I am currently contracted with before I decided to take the leap and buy my own truck and trailer. And with 9 years under my belt....." Or they'll be the ones with the biggest radio in the truck stop, or the truck with so many lights on their truck you can see them from space.

Seriously, you might think it looks cool, but all it does is make you look pathetic. Life is a zero sum game.

slow season? funny, last year when i was a company driver, it was "slow" too...but i seemed to keep rollin, and get in 2300-2400 mi week. And right now, i'm running wal-mart dedicated, so i'm not too worried about freight slowing down. But then again, i'll still get in what i need to make my lousy paycheck of $150 a week. (might as well pretend its low, to make all of those who hate me or the whole flease deal feel better about yourself).

and i dont know why there are still a few who try to "correct me" saying "you dont own your truck...." really??? you can ask Injun if i think i own my truck, cause that was one of the things i was telling her, of why you can't call yourself an "O/O". why are you trying to correct something i already know? need an ego boost or something? getting close to christmas, and its the time of year you hate, because you're not married, no kids and your family never invites you over, so you sit at home watching Lawrence Welk reruns drinking egg-nog, then you get your hopes up when you hear christmas carolers, thinking they're at your door, only to open your door and find out their singing to trailer across the dirt road? LOL....that last part was actually funny. =) HAHAHA


oh, and i could get paid percentage of the load. but the percentage pay is only 65%. and i dont get any MT milage pay, and no fuel rebate. And i know they're suposed to tell me how much the load pays if i asked them (if paid %) but i'm just suposed to take their word for it?