jan 2012

New year, ended last month strong. First week of the year had carry over but ended with 2600 miles for week. I would of had more but had family emergency. I want to tell everyone that my Dm Phil out of Pcola is a amazing Dm. Easy to work with respectable, experienced, and real supportive. Some people said he was a hard ###. Lol if you do your job and do it well its easy. I am glad I have him.

This next week miles will be low because may is routing me back towards Michigan for a Military funeral for my grandpa. He was a veteran of ww2 in the airforce and army before trucking. He was on Normandy beach in France two days after D day. He was 87.
I haven't been posting much, I been just driving.

 

Ok so last week was 100 miles only and this past week was total of 2250 miles and a breakdown in Green Bay. Thanks to wonderful Ohio and Pennsylvania roads. It proves you don't need a college education to build roads in those states just a union. I feel like my.miles are back to low again when I did real.well between thanksgiving and new years. I got a load from Denver to Portland and sat Friday all day after off load then picked up sat outside Portland to deliver Monday in Boise so that's 3 days in my book wasted production for 500 miles. Back to.old bull ####. I was hoping I was past that point after thanksgiving picked up a lot. I guess I need to keep my options open, I was considering staying with if they could continue giving me.miles like the holidays. I have not technically been home since thanksgiving, I took time off in Utah for Christmas and the one day I needed for the funeral I got 5. So instead of sitting in the truck I got a hotel room cost me about 240 bucks. I can't stay in truck that long. I got service on my truck and found out batteries were bad. Hence needing to drive full day just to stay charged 6 hours. Funny how someone says let's be transparent about miles and everyone gets cold feet. My pay stubs are open for email. I have nothing to hide.

 

Scooter you were suppose to.get back to me on a contact, did.you forget?

 

Picking.up in Ontario, or suppose to head to Atlanta but they want delivery Thu, no way I can make it.legally. guess I will lose miles and repower to someone.

 

This week I was able to take that same load to Atlanta, they did have to reschedule it to Sunday morning. Lucky me. I was finally able to see the restoration of the house I use to live in before it caught fire hopefully it will be done by end of the month.

I had a poor week to my standards I ended up about 1750 miles, if it was not for the tuition reimbursement I wouldn't be able to make my car payment. I got stuck like I said for 3 days in Oregon with only 500 miles. I even did a local run of about 9 miles and took about 3 hours, I got paid .31cpm. YES only .31c TOTAL!

I like May, I like the Terminal Layton, Mechanic shop, and some awesome guys like me out there in trucks. The only thing I would like to see happen is have more miles available. Other companies have plenty, run as hard as you want legally. I dont understand why we cant do the same. As many people leave here and they have a high turnover, why not give the guys willing to run what they want? It benefits the company to make money and the guy driving? I think we should be paid more if they cant give me 2500 miles a week. I had a great set of runs around the holidays, over 3k miles many weeks. I was HAPPY as I was making money. This 1750 miles and last week of 400 sucks!!!! I got bills its the end of the month. I hope they can turn it around. We lost Efron due to lack of miles, thats it, just that. What a great guy, Roll model for May or any company he chooses. Someone didn't pay attention enough to what they had. I can tell Scooter is along those same values. I am very fair, I just don't have the patience to train. There can only be one A-hole on my truck and I fill that seat just fine. I offload Sunday and going to be ready Monday to watch the big game. I dont care what team wins, just more of certain players get a ring like Mista Ochocinco.

Be Safe guys!