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Discussion in 'Swift' started by neal79, Oct 17, 2011.

  1. MysticHZ

    MysticHZ Road Train Member

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    Chatted with an Advisory member at a fuel island one time. Guy was a pretty straight shooter, not a Swift apologist at all. But was pumping up OOIDA pretty heavily.
     
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  3. MysticHZ

    MysticHZ Road Train Member

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    If you are talking about the casino parking. It may be worth the $15, huge lot and never more than a half dozen trucks in there. You also get a free shuttle to the casino and you get $15 of free play to recoup the cost of the parking.
     
  4. neal79

    neal79 Medium Load Member

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    Oh if I would have felt like I was losing it I would have at least stopped briefly but it wasn't as bad as it sounds, actually once I did stop thats when it caught up to me. I just made sure to get plenty of sleep and stocked up on some munchies at Pilot before I picked it up. I did use one 5 hour energy drink, I normally don't like those but i popped it about 3am because thats when it tends to get rough for me overnight. I have done some insane drives before I started doing truck driving so maybe that helped. My record is 1130 miles in one day in a cargo van and I only stopped about 3 times on that one, so 200 miles is easy, I just kinda wanted to see if I could pull it off.
     
  5. Injun

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    Neal, it is good to test yourself to find out what you are capable of. We all do that from time to time. As long as we understand how to tell when enough is enough, there is nothing wrong with it. Sounds like you have a pretty good grasp of that. As long as you don't get overconfident, you will do just fine.
     
  6. capthook

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    Del:11/21 00:01-00:01 D
    MUST deliver in window,
    Not 1 min early or 1 min late

    Gee.... a whole 59 second window!?! A new record
     
  7. Injun

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    Looks fishy to me, but who are you going to call? ECT? :laughing-guffaw:
     
  8. neal79

    neal79 Medium Load Member

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    Usually 00:01-00:01 means there is no appointment scheduled yet. Have had this a few times and a few hours after taking it I get a message with apt time.
     
  9. Injun

    Injun Road Train Member

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    Thought that was "00:00-00:00." A midnight delivery appt is usually expressed as"23:59-23:59." I usually call on those to be absolutely sure which midnight they want. Yeh, got bit by that one once. Luckily, I was 24 hours early.
     
  10. neal79

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    Might be 00:00 been a while since I got one of those. Would be really odd if they wanted it there exactly at 00:01 not 00:00 or 00:02. Something is defiantly fishy with that appointment that's for sure.
     
  11. capthook

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    It was a jit load / drop.
    But I'll never know.
    Got sent 3 hrs out of the way to get an empty.
    Except it was still loaded.
    So sent bobtail to pu the preloaded trailer.
    Except it wasn't loaded. Needed an mt for live load.
    Except 5 phone calls and 4 qc messages later... 6 hrs later...
    They send message to get an mt 4 hrs round trip away.
    Except the shipper closes in 5 min and closed until Mon.
    All the while a preloaded swift trailer going somewhere else has
    been sitting there ready for 4 days..
    Told the pod everytime... just let me take that one!
    Except ended up voiding the plan.
    Now there are two trailers gunna be days late.

    WHO LOVES THE WEEKENDS. W
    MUHAHAHA
     
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