Central Refrigerated Truck Stop II

Agreed Lady K - I plan on paying my dues OTR and have been running as hard as allowed over the past two months. I say as hard as allowed because even though I keep communicating and saying I will be at 99 early, many times I haven't gotten a drop and will sit for 24, under load, till I am able to deliver. However, as again, I say I am still learning, I'm finding that some shippers and receivers I should go ahead and checkin when I get there even if I'm a day early. Anyway, yes, OTR and still learning but am wanting to go dedicated. Thanks!!

 

A lot of the Coors stuff is Golden CO to GA an VA. They go other places too, but it seems like a lot of it is coming out of Golden.

FYI, you can have multiple quote in a single post by hitting the little bubble with the + next to it rather than having three seperate posts.

 

im on the Eden NC Coors fleet. I normally stay on the east coast when I'm solo and get ran everywhere when I have a student. I very seldom get into UT except to pick up a student or upgrade a student. Yes we run a lot out of golden CO but being the mostly Mormon population of a lot of UT, we don't take a lot of beer to UT but do run through it. This has been my observation but I may be way off base.

 

Thanks for the laugh! Did you happen to mention to him that he should try Depends?

 

We spent 9 months on the Coors fleet, and I think we delivered to Salt Lake twice, maybe 3 times. I remember once place twice, you back in off the street, up a hill, across railroad tracks, and they have big signs asking you to not actually bump the dock because it put dents in the building. That's the same place that was so excited because they were getting the high alcohol content beer. I don't remember what the content was, but it didn't strike me as all that high. Then again, I don't drink beer so I have no idea about most of it.

The bulk of our deliveries out west seemed to be outside of Sacremento, Portland, and two places in Washington, one in Olympia and one in Everett. The Everett place is a really nice place, provided it's not snowing.

 

When I was general freight about half of my hometime loads were Golden to Everett with 2-3 extra days on it. So I would bust tail home to Yakima hang out for a couple days then deliver in Everett. What was great a lot of the time my next load would be hops out of Yakima and back to Golden. So I would get an extra day at home without actually taking hometime. Loads through home are sometimes better than loads to home. You know when you need to leave so you can plan. Although the bonus day at home when they can't find you a load out is nice too.

 

They are tough on Fred Meyrs. I was going to be put on FM temporarily near the time my Daughter was to be born so I could be nearby. I had a load going by home that delivered 130mi from my house. It was 70 and sunny in Yakima and I left 4hrs before my delivery. I ended up needing to put on chains (which I had never done before) which took almost an hour. Anyway I got to the receiver 30min late and they refused me. I got a call from my dm saying I was off fm because they did not want a driver who was late because they had to put on chains.

On the depends/peeing in the seat thing. My wife and I used to work in a nursing home and as a going away gift they gave me a pack of off brand depends. To make it better they were 6xl female. I heard horror stories about students peeing in the seat so when I started training I got a seat cover and have those puppy training pads under it. Thankfully I have not had to change it yet.

 

just outta curiousity how has your weeks been so far this month notice more and more crybabies about there miles just a little more than normal. I havent declined much at all and my week is already planned till next monday and its another 3500. Just came off of the 3200, 2600, 3450, 2200 guess you can figure out when hometime is. Just curious just seemed like everyone i have seen is complaining but newbies and truck stop junkies

 

I had a little dip the first week or so. I told DM if Kraft can't keep up with me I'll run general freight. Been running a lot of unfi loads. Looking at 5300 this week. And that's with newbie 8 that I have to babysit. I could probably have goe 5800-6000 with any of my other students.

 

Week one, 5 days 2,000. Week 2, 2,100. Week 3 saved a load and ran almost 4,000 (actual not paid). I also complained about not getting consistent miles. I think part of it's winter. I'm planned out to the 2nd now with 2500 on top of the 2000 I ran. Most of that will fall on next week but they add up and I can handle getting a good check every two weeks as long as it works out that way. I am still new(ish) and realizing if you don't stay on top of your week nobody is gonna care, unless they are also waiting on your paycheck. I'm staying out three more weeks so hopefully things start picking up.

One question though... Are the planners dispatchers in training? They come up with some weird stuff and they expect you to just accept what they give you at least it seems that way some days.