Conway Truckload Drivers what is your 20?

I'm hoping for a reset in Jacksonville so I don't wind up in a similar situation... If I average 59mph I'll arrive just before a midnight with 2 hours on my 70 (picking up 4 more at midnight & 2 the day after if I were to recap). If I average 63 I'll have 5.5 on my 70 which combined with the 4 would tempt a short-sighted dispatcher to give me a crummy load and leave me stranded the next day with 2 hours (but probably with a botched 1-4am).

Besides, the lower speed will make up for some idling. And I can rent a car and play tourist -- maybe even dip my toes into the Atlantic for the first time.

 

We relayed a load with a driver once in Lubbock and got their empty, the trl was full of broken boards,dog food and seeds plus a really low trl and messed up tail light, come on people I could kinda of see the trl not be swept but the rest of the issues that just being lazy, another time did a D/H in Topton,PA and grabbed a trl where the previous driver didn't take hazmat placards off trl which is ok but this driver instead of putting the in the holders he/she stuck them to the trl and we had to stand out in a down pour scrap off the placard, 3 of drivers had to do the same thing

 

Heck .... I can never get a load in or out of Topton that requires placards
also I believe when dropping DOT requires the placards on until the trailer is unloaded

 

Technically wouldn't the yard dogs have to pull them off since they were the last to pull the trailers?

 

Guardrails are useful in an emergency. Get the rig parked and hit it!

 

Guess you mean drop it like its hot!!

Ewwww!

 

Absolutely correct.

 

Ever since a co-driver left me 650 miles from a shipper with missing placards (blown out of holders), I've always 409'ed a swatch before sticking the placards directly to the trailer. Once you get a corner free, the placards come off in one piece if you make sure to pull at 90* from the crease.


--Eloy, AZ

 

Holland .... Not the country ....Michigan


enjoying a Mc Coffee before I get unloaded

 

Pre-plan to Laredo TX ....was hoping for more farther west but 1500 mi by Sat will do