Roehl Driver Check In

Marge is awesome I had her when I was EVO 3.....she always gave me good miles....as for Tim....well he was a reefer dispatcher...but from what I hear they must have moved him off the reefer board cause of too many complaints....(hes never drove a truck before...his last job was at radio shack)

 

Yea I know like I said I'm not worried about it much I'm just happy I'm rollin

 

Yea, happy is better than letting someone else dictate your day

 

Mic
How do you like FB with Roehl, and how is the pay?

 

Treefork lmao!!! He loved it ha ha

 

lantern, was this another of the outlaw loads from prentice to alabama?

we have an illegal run hauling overweight (NOT oversize) cat log grapple/debarkers from prentice to a customer in alabama. the tow aways are 81,000 pounds with 43,000 pounds on the tandems (not spreads), which is illegal in tennessee, period end, always, no exceptions.

they gave me one of them-- without the tennessee permit-- and when i called from the kentucky border what they sent me was a tennessee permit that specifically stated that the 20,000 pound axle limit was not waived. when i called, i was told that my routing would take me around the scales, and that if i was ticketed on the route, roehl would pay the fine, so long as i was stopped on the route they assigned me.

going around tennessee would add some 250 miles to the trip, and three more permits, i think, and the decision makers at roehl chose to run outlaw instead. i've talked to other drivers, and this was not the first time we've done this run.

i went ahead and took the load, but after thinking about it realized that it was a stupid thing to do, and told my FM i wouldn't do it again. she was surprised to hear about it too.

you can't cross tennessee on sunday oversize (you can, overweight) and i drove through the state on sunday like an idiot with my OD flags and banners out. because you don't have to flag and banner an overweight load in tennessee, i was just asking to be stopped by a cop who would want to know why i was driving sunday oversize. that would have been a quick trip to the scale. luckily the two cops i passed were otherwise occupied.

never again.

 

That exactly describes this past week for me. 2400-ish miles plus tarp pay (and a lot of sweat equity even when it's cold lol).

 

Now at the TA in Baltimore for layover prior to Monday morning delivery of a giant piece of machinery I got yesterday on a relayed
53' step deck from Gary. It will go to the port then on a ship to India next month. Had to fix the tarp a few times to keep it from flapping so much. After delivery, home for a few days.

 

I had one of those knuckleboom log loaders a few weeks ago. It was only heavy on the trailer axles by about 4000 lbs, thus the overweight permit requirement. Gross was around 75,000 for me if I remember correctly, but I'm sure it was not over 80K. All permits were good and everything was legal as far as I could perceive... I could have run through all the states all weekend if only the permit start dates had been different. As it was I had to stop just shy of TN, not because of TN but MS had a Monday start date and there was no place to stop on the route thru TN. Like Lantern said though, it do get airborn on the bumps due to lack of suspension...