EPES TRANSPORT-Greensboro, NC

Well the trainee IS getting his northeast tour in ! Monday in uxbridge , this morning in Carlisle , tonight in Plainfield . Feel like the ball in the pinball machine!

 

sounds kinda like paramus.....that one is gaurdrail hell too......just getting off the 4 lane to the store is a tight sharp right and gaurdrails right on the trailer coming off the exit and then the gaurdrails behind the store are pretty close in too....gotta get right up on them and back right down beside them coming back into the dock. got north bergen out of there. that was like hand to hand combat and a VERY long 16 miles at 7am lol.......

be good for him lol builds character......or will send him running from the truck home one of the two.....that's a rough start to the week.....if he handles all that good he'll be fine lol........

i've got a #### good week going so far......up to grand rapids then (surprise surprise ) west side of chicago coming out of there.....alsip this time to prestone going to zanesville.....they really gotta plan these trips out of GR better.....appointment time would have been with 1hr left once i got there but i rolled anyway and they took me early......i do understand why so many don't like that GR trip.....getting out of there, loaded and parked afterward before you're out of time is stressful to say the least. every time. at least for me those trips are consistent each time i go to GR........roughly 180 empty then live load and push the clock getting back through chicago right at the start of rush hour....... then out of zanesville today to washington court house for dog food going to marcy......be right at 1700 in 3.5 days when i get there tomorrow if the weather doesn't screw me. winter storm warnings all along the bottom half of the route. i pushed my luck and time for parking coming out of mars today trying to get as far ahead of it as i could got the next to the last spot in the rest area at the 197 south of ashland right before time ran out.

as long as i don't wake up to white hell in the morning i should get a really good week in this week.

 

Who's been to pick up some cigars in Miami? Lol

 

How often do yall go to the same stops??shippers and receivers??

 

I have. annoying to say the least getting in and out of that place but they were pretty quick loading. the school just down and across the street was letting out just as it was my turn to come in off the street to get into the gate. what a bunch of no driving no looking no brains 4 wheelers that bunch was. but a good run took it back up to virginia

for me it's about 30% of the time......alot of them will be a regular shipper and go somewhere i haven't been or the other way around but about 25% of those times i'll go to the same on both ends.....quite a few of them i don't even need directions for now i've been there so many times i just go. but i always check the directions anyway to see if anything has changed even if i've been there before. the first time i didn't do it a road was closed on the regular route in and the directions (which i looked at after the fact and gray hair i caused myself lol) pointed that little fact out. now i always look anyway even if i've been there 20 times. but there are quite a few on one end or the other is a regular customer. to get regular stops on both ends is a little more less frequent.

 

Which way did you come out? 826? 836? The Turnpike??

 

Hey divers, Im thinking about driving for epes, I have 4 months exp, so they said I'll have to have a trainer for 1 or 2 Weeks, how's the training program, I also live in the Knoxville TN, area, how often would I get home? Thanks!!

 

I followed the route suggestion out. Come out to the light, go right, left at the next light don't remember the street want to say 127th but it's been awhile since I was there. That took me right out to 826 then 95 all the way up to the cons.

 

Trainers are on their game you'll be happy with that part of it. You'll get in every weekend unless you just want to stay out or get the odd week that you just end up in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wring load lol I've only been kept out 2 weeks not by choice twice in 20 months now. We've got a yard in morristown you'll have no problems living that close.

 

Matt , I sent you a pm. Or you can ask away on here .