schneider...a year in review

well, I have the training at 0700 then I will be putting my gear in there so I figure Il be ready to roll by 1000

 

Yep, they used bleach on every area that I could touch. No carpet on the floor...rubber there, thank god!

 

Today was a good day. I woke up this morning after very little sleep and went to the OC in Carlisle where I met Mr. Bob, who trained me on the ins and outs of the Automatic Transmission in a truck. We went over to the shop, picked up ol' nasty truck, which was very clean today except for the smell, and proceeded to drive around with a trailer behind me with him telling me what to do as I drove. Iy really wasn't hard to master the transmission and before long, I had it down.

I said that my truck was clean and it was. Yes, it is the same nasty truck that I saw on Sunday, but today it was spotless inside (the outside leaves a LOT to be desired, though). The only thing I could find wrong with it was the smell. Smoke and BO from hell! Sprayed about a half can of Lysol in the truck and we trained in it. Once I finished training, my DBL called me and asked about the truck. I told him the smell was horrible, but I was going to try to fix it. He said right then that he was going to route me back to Atlanta and switch me to another truck if I wanted to. I said, if I could get the smell out, I would be good wit this one. He said that if I want to switch in the future, its my call, which I thought was cool of him.

Brad (my DBL) also told me to go to Wal-Mart and buy all of the cleaning and deodorizer that I needed and send the receipt in and he would reimburse me. I did. I got 26.00 worth of supplies to get this smell out of here and mostly it worked. Febreze...lol...I sprayed about half a bottle on the seats. Got lysol wipes, a citrus puck (HUGE) that goes under the seat and a few other things. It was definitely worth it to me.

Finished that, took the rental car back, and Brad called me on the phone again to tell me that he was sending my first load to my truck. He said it was a short one, but it would get me out of the yard and he didn't want me to be too far away in case this truck was screwed. The load left the yard going to Mt. Holly, NJ hauling a load for Dunkin' Donuts. It was kind of ironic that is what it was, because I was looking for DD ALL day to get a Mocha Espresso Latte. I thought it was ironic, anyway. LOL.

I left the yard and drove the load on down to Mt. Holly and shut it down. My appointment is at 0600 and Im about 15 minutes away at the Petro in Bordentown, NJ. Short trip today of about 150 miles, but at least I'm in MY truck hauling MY loads, so Im OK with it.

So, truck is good, load is good, drive was good, night is good. Gonna sleep well, me thinks.

More later!