Central Refrigerated Truck Stop II

Not sure what's around there, but if the area isn't to skanky, you can always go for a walk... :/ Maybe there is something near by, like a movie theater or something... Even a mall for people watching and window shopping...

 

There're armed guards here. I have a rule against leaving my truck for more time than it takes to shower and feed when i'm somewhere that needs armed security. Actually I have a rule against stopping anywhere like that, but when you're overloaded with product you're not overloaded with choices :/

 

That's what I keep doing on my trainers truck is over reving it to about 1900 then I have to wait for the RPMs to drop before putting it in gear. Needless to say you feel like its panic time when climbing a grade.

 

If you miss a gear going up a grade don't try that gear again. Drop one more gear. If you miss a gear feeling your way into it is frequently easier that trying to double clutch repeatedly. If you're trainer will let you do that, do it!

 

I haven't missed a gear yet (knock on wood) I have just over reved then waited the extra half a second for the RPM to drop back to 1500 to put it in gear. Shifting has been good ever since I left Fontana the big issue I have is rushing to shift when loaded I need to be more patient and let the RMPs build slowly before trying to shift up.

On another note how is your spreadsheet looking for the lease? I was going to do the same thing track all my miles my fuel and the maintence on the truck I have to compare when they offer me the lease to see if it would be worth while.

 

Talk about screwing up a good day. Yesterday I was on my way to dodge city to get my POS meat load headed east. Halfway there I get five messages in a row, I stop, find out I had been taken off the run to TN and then to TX, in its place, a run to Seattle. It would have out me only 1200 miles away from home on Wednesday morning. I was very pleased by that. The only downside was that the appointment was at 2300 (it was 0900 around this time) and the DDT wasn't till 0900 the next day. I was willin to sit a day for the convenience. I get to Cargill, check in at 1000, 2300 hours till my DDT, and they tell me my trailer is ready. If I had a drink I'd have spit it out. Get the trailer-- have some problems sliding the tandems, half a bottle of WD40 and using a curb I get it in place.

All is well, I'm happy, heading back for the 70 a day before my DDT is even set-- heading out of Ness City, I pull over to let traffic pass, but the car behind me is intending to turn right where I am, so I get going again and since I am outside the town, I get back up to speed-- bam. Blue and red lights behind me, when I finally get to a place where I can pull over, cop comes up and tells me I got up to speed behfore the speed limit went back to 65 (about a mile outside of town)

so Tuesday I get to call the citation department and Drivers Legal Plan... Anyone have experience with this issue please PM me so I know what my plan of action should be. I'm concerned how this may effect both my future with central and trucking......

 

Thanks for putting my problems in to perspective

How bad was it? I know some of those cities in KS are 35 long after the city is over. If you're talking 62 in a 35 that's trouble, if it was <60 in a 45 you're probably ok, but you're gonna have to watch yourself. The good news is he mustn't have given you a level 1 to go with, since your brakes are out of adjustment. Piling violations on top of violations would definitely be worse.

 

I was written for 61 in a 45. That's 16 and 15 is considered a serious violation. So I've really got to hope that the legal plan deal can at least get it knocked down 2mph.

 

I can't fill trailers, I need more hours for running yours down the road to get washed out!!

 

First call and harass dispatch. even if they cant help it's a time killer. Then I clean. Then I read. Then movies. Then read some more. Then clean. Complain on TTR. Read some more. Clean. Call dispatch. Sleep. Call dispatch. Repeat.