More about my new job at PAM (problems).

I remember reading that at first I'd be assigned a POS truck. Well, it's true. I was assigned truck #25684. An 07 Freightliner with 601,000 miles on it. I Looked the truck over and found a few things wrong and put it into the shop for repairs. This was Friday. I'd just finished training and was going to take some home time and thought the truck would be ready to go by Monday.

Well, the techs found a lot of things wrong. This is good because I'm not stranded out on the road someplace. But, it's also bad because I really need to work and make some money to feed my wife and child as well as pay the bills. We are getting hungry.

 

Seems the truck I was assigned has "major transmission electrical issues" and I'm going to have to be assigned another truck. Fingers crossed that this truck will be able to actually haul freight.

I wonder if I could get lay over pay?

 

Well, I'm way past a 72 hour deadline and I was on hometown when all this started. So, I had no need for a motel.

Yesterday my DM said they should have a truck for me by noon. Now it's Saturday and I likely won't get a truck until at least Monday. I'll call in a couple of hours and see what can be done, but I'm not hopeful about the outlook.

 

I just got of the phone with them. I was told there were no notes about another truck for me and that I'd have to wait until Monday.

I was supposed to be on the road last Monday, so home time has been a week longer than I'd planned. I just want to do the job and have some income. I'm getting hungry.

 

They assigned me to truck number 25838 yesterday evening. This morning I'm driving over to Irving for a first look at it. Hopefully it'll be in better shape than the last one and I can get on the road and start making a living.

 

This truck drives ok. There may be a problem with the alignment, but I'm not going to say anything for a while. Need to work and make some money.

This truck has an idle optimizer and shuts down after a few mins. When I sleep will it start up and keep the temp comfortable or is there something I have to do?