I'm a stone cold rookie, gonna work the texas oil fields

regdawg1 · Jan 18, 2012

paulcouto said: ↑

i'd imagine you two live near a creek or something? didnt know you could have an address from a tent.
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paulcouto · Jan 18, 2012

k, will get to it when i wake up later on.

thehornet · Jan 18, 2012

morning sunshine,, what's good?

thehornet · Jan 18, 2012

got your message,, good deal bro, you the man..

paulcouto · Jan 18, 2012

thehornet said: ↑

got your message,, good deal bro, you the man..
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good luck tomorrow, theres a driver meeting in the morning, he should be done before 8:30 but if he doesnt answer, dont worry, just keep calling every hour till you do.

thehornet · Jan 18, 2012

yes sir..,

stanman63 · Jan 18, 2012

paulcouto said: ↑

##### horrible shift, didnt get dispatched till 6. What irks the #### out of me is how dispatch sends my assigned truck out, meanwhile, i see other trucks just sitting there assigned to guys who dont put the hours in like i do. They should be sending those trucks out before mine, if mine gets dispatched after that, then i dont care, its best for the company. I should talk to my supervisor about this but if they havent figured it out already, i'd rather just ##### to myself. I can see the writing on the wall, i'm just going to snag any truck on the yard thats available or get run off or look for another company that will let me run like a bat out of hell. I never really talk about this but these 90 hour weeks i put in is a lot of hustling to find who has my truck and convince them to come in early. I got to wake up early and hunt my truck down, if i cant get it in, then i cant fall back to sleep, i'm telling you its a tremendous amount of work. Its appearing that its going to get harder with all the new drivers coming in, hell theres 7 new drivers coming next week. This isnt looking good but i'm sure the flow of life will guide me down the right path, i just KNEW all these hours were too good to be true.

so anyway, the trucking gods almost got me tonight, super dense, wet, drizzly mirky fog tonight. It was like driving under water through a swamp, i aint lying and i was blazing right through it, hoping (hate that word but its all you got in these situations) that a vehichle isnt stalled in the middle of the road with their lights off,

............or,

peterbuilt headlights coming straight at you, ##### idiot, thank heaven i was unloaded. I drove 60 miles through this stuff between 60-65mph, NO FEAR, i cant live in fear of what i can see, i can see enough of the white line and one reflector at a time, i know it sounds crazy and it probably is but i got confidence in what i can see even though its only 10 feet in front of me. I just cant slow down. I try to but its like lying to myself, i just cant do it, i'll admit its unerving as hell but you got to trust what you see. Regardless of all that, i seriously wonder if i'll survive 5 years of this, with that peterbuilt incident, ANYTHING can happen and theres not much you can do about it except for slowing down i guess but i cant do it.
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ill be glad when you get off the road ! im on the same roads as you and i can make money with out killing myself or anyone else if you just put in your time the money will come out here!! but you aint gona last a year!!!!!!

Logan76 · Jan 18, 2012

I agree with Stan, I work just as many hours as you and I cant say anything about the hours you work. I can say if your in heavy fog you need to SLOW DOWN! I've hauled coal making percentage and I slowed down when there was good reason. Think about how you would feel if you killed some mother and her child because you "couldn't" slow down...

paulcouto · Jan 19, 2012

yeah, you guys are right, i been thinking about it and i been contemplating just pulling over till the fog lifts and thats probably what i'm gonna do from now on.

for the record though stan, if yur driving the same roads as me which would be 190, 137, 277 and I-10, then you know that i'm not the only one blazing through the fog, every other truck i see is doing the same, so dont make me out to be the lone nut out there. I was on I-10 doin 65 and there was people passing me through that mess.

some idiot last night came out of co. rd. 119 and didnt stop till half way into the 190 lane, lucky for him i was unloaded and practically stopped on a dime from 65 mph to zero, if i dont last a year, i swear it wont be my fault.

Patt52 · Jan 19, 2012

Has there been a glut of drivers show up and hiring slowed or is it they are being trained for other yards? Or is it still too early in the year for new budgets to get work ramped up?

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