My Experinces At May Trucking

I did a load from layton Ut to New Jersey then now I am on a load from New jersey to Cali.

 

Well we delivered the load In california that we picked up in New jersey Picked a budwiser load in cali going to denver but our truck broke down friday and it is still in the shop we are up in a motel now. Hopefully the pete dealership gets it running I am training in a 2007 387 pete it has the isx cummins and we were getting the engine shutdown warning we lost all throdle so we had to park and get the happy hooker to come tow us back to Fontana Ca.

The trainer wants me to test out for solo ASAP. He thinks that I am ready the good thing is that I will test out in his truck. He told me to tell the company to assign me a freightliner snub nose due to that is what I was trained in school in and I feel more comfortable with that kind of truck.
I really do not want a 379 the nose and turning radius throws me off.

I am defenatly going to get the wireless sprint card the Wifi is too crappy to try to get. I used a ta's once and every truck that would go in front of us would boot my connection.


I will update you soon.

 

Right now we are at the Best Western in Relato Ca they have a shuttle that picked us up.

The wrecker had to drop our load at the Fontana yard before he droped us at pete.

I am hoping the next load goes to Denver I want a little more pratice on those mountains before I go solo.

I have drove mountains but I think the ones on I 70 are worst ones.

I will probaly be going that way alot the time to go home so the more pratice the better.


Also I hate the Ohio toll roads the toll booths are not to trucker friendly they are really tight as alot of you may already know.

 

Well we are still broke down in cali but we are taking a older truck tomorrow just to get on the road.

The trainer got his behind chewed because apperantly no one communicates at the office to know that we have been sitting for 5 days he told a few people and they did not pass along the message. The main thing that torqued the guy off is that I have been sitting not driving when I was suppose to be getting trained.

Hopefully my trainer will let me drive instead of making wait untill he runs out of hours.
That is how it mostly worked so far.

He calls himself a mileage hoe I just put it nicer than he puts it.

Had the right person got notified they would of flown us to texas to pick up other trucks to return to the teminals from shops etc.

We picked up two trucks today arround cali and one of theose trucks we are taking with us.

The trainer told them to keep his new pete and give him a freightliner hopefully he will get to a terminal that has new freightliners so I can try to get the one we are leaving with.

 

We got a load to the walmart dc in oregon on the 395 from Fontana Ca to Oregon.

We load an oreida load here in Oregon tonite/early morning take it to the arch state.

I am getting use to the freightliner again.

 

Well I tried to test out for solo but I was failed due to the fact that I cut a turn to short ran over a double yellow line and a couple of minor things.

The guy that tested me was a by the book guy ''picky'' but they also tested me on backing passed with flying colors and then they also had me do their short backing program a little log book test.

I am still with a trainer going to test again in my home terminal not the main terminal this time.

The tester really belives that I can do it but he said that he had to fail me for those couple of things.

I explained that I was nervous etc he understood.

Once I solo out they will be issuing me a 379 most likely which I am not too happy about but within 1-3 months I will be getting a older 387.

I am not going to quit over a little issue like that I will have to pratice driving that truck.

that is all I have for now we are going to Pa with a load of apples from WA and OR.