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Emul, is the new guy Brett W??? If so, he was transitioning into the job in late January, early February. We talked with him extensively when we were fighting the overcharges on our LTI. He was very helpful. Sounds like he has some good ideas if he is given the freedom to go with it.

 

Yea, thats him.

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[TD="width: 100%, align: left"]Brett W joined the Stevens Transport family this year to enhance our world-class maintenance organization. As our new Director of Fleet Maintenance, he oversees the complete shop network of Stevens Transport across the entire US. Implementing innovative procedures to improve work flow through the shop network will result in a higher level of customer service. Brett has already begun establishing measurable work standards to ensure first time quality repairs. With over 30 years in the trucking industry, Brett was formally Director of Maintenance and Shop Operations for US Express and Vice President of Maintenance for Arnold Transportation Services.

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Hit a new personal best yesterday, Oklahoma City to Gallup: 670 miles in 10:59...

Weird that my GPS showed it as 677 miles but there are not too many parts of the country where you can make a run like that. My old best was 640...

 

Well most of the stuff on here is crap and complaining. But, as long as its crap YOU want to read then it's all good? It's the internet dude, it's not real life or maybe it's your life.... In which case, I didn't mean to upset your virtual world but there is an ignore button too. Free speech is now crap too? Well, that seems to be the growing trend. Thank you for letting me know I had joined Dryvers socialist social, baby ears club.

Now, if some of you didn't just read that and chuckle. It's funny, it's entertainment, it's also apparently the life link for some of you with no life. You're right though, it's no where near as interesting as "I drove over a mountain today, or this darn receiver, or I hate my company" all the same.

 

I try and be optimistic as I complain.
sigh!

 

Yep, I also know that most of it is light hearted. I'm not mad at Chuck, I don't dislike him.... It's just words on a screen. Now many may argue that I'm a A - hole..... But I try to be consistent about it.

 

now how is a solo driver with alliance to make any income with a fixed cost of $680 per week, with the pay being 85 cents per mile?
the insurance will be more expensive too, since the truck is worth more.

Just something to consider.

setting here in the dock door at wally world, with my consolidator load... should take about 4 hours.... then to where? No pre plan, not even a soft plan...May be a long weekend.

 

Optimistic

As the buzzard said, patience my tail feathers, I gonna kill something. (modified to get past the language filter)

 

Go Home!...

 

Finally got loaded and rolling in Cali!!! Got a call at 2230 Dallas time to go to a different shipper to pick up our load of cherries (3rd shipper), we would be loaded as soon as we got there. When we arrived we were told it would be a few hours, relayed that to the produce dept, produce made some calls and 15 min we were in a dock. Loaded in 45 min ready to roll. Oops, hold up, shipper didn't put air bags on the load!!! You will have to wait until a.m. to make sure the receiver is OK with that. QC this a.m., OK to roll without air bags. We ONLY had to wait 75 hours for them to get it all hashed out, and they are going to be oh so generous and pay us solo layover pay for 2 days. When is someone gonna realize that if they want us to run team miles they need to compensate layover pay, etc at a little better than solo. We lost over 3000 miles by sitting all that time.