Van Wyk Inc.

Why do you say that Larry? Are you getting whiplash watching all the short skirts roll by?!?!

 

Sitting in Scranton waiting to get loaded, since some people are in capable of providing information (like a pickup#?) so I can get this crap low paying broker load down to mt Crawford, I swear sometimes these people in waynesboro and Sheldon can make a simple pickup into a total cluster..... I can already tell how this new 34 hour rule is going to work with this company, seems like dispatch, especially va, seems like they cannot grasp the concept that we have to have both nights of the restart off between 1-5 am, or they think we can go onto a shipper with out the right info and we will be loaded instantly. Not to mention it seems like a lot of these northeast loads are paying less and less and finding out that a lot of what I was told about the yearly pay raise, and the dispatch being "non forced", are compete lies. I'll be looking at my options since I got vacation coming, and I'm hoping Sheldon & waynesboro don't botch that up... It would really suck if I book the flights in advance and dale or Vogel decided to "coerce" me into doing a "favor" at the last minute, making me miss the flights and costing me a bunch of money,, I can guarantee if they pull that crap, I will make them regret it..SEVERELY. Hate to sound like I'm griping, but lately (since this past spring)some people in this company have been driving me bat####!

 

I hear ya spyder....it seems that loads seem to be getting cheaper.....right now I am in Tacoma, my delivery is tomorrow....then hopefully I load in seattle and head for Lemars....cause once I am home its moving time for me...I will be moving to Ames next week...then I don't know, I think I am going to go see my mom on her Birthday since I haven't done that in awhile....I am thinking of quitting early just to do that, then its school time for me...

 

I didn't think it was possible for freight to get any cheaper out there? Hey Mic, how'd you like that work zone on 212 in Montana? I got stuck behind the water truck spraying down the dirt so my truck looks like hell again. Feels great to have 3 hours of washing & polishing go up in smoke.

 

Just got done with 2nd Warners delivery for the week, was hoping to finally get home to get a 34, but waynesboro is back to the game- playing last few weeks, just been tearing my hair out with that office.(well what's left my hair, anyways lol) had the truck in valley fleet a couple weeks ago for b service, and both those guys keep asking if I'm due for b service. On top of that, had a bad tire on the trailer I picked up, and took the place all day to change it, not to mention josh conveniently waits until the trailer is loaded with frozen stuff before decided to have me get a pm done on the reefer- real brilliant. He ought to consider himself lucky I wasn't near the office yesterday since I've been fed up with him last couple weeks. Any ways, after getting said tire replaced, ( for which josh gets the idea that tire changes happen instantly, and is incapable of listening to or understanding what a driver is telling him) , I wound up having to complete an 8 hr sleeper break and hammering all nite to get up here, which worked out fine with the help of my favorite heavy metal bands and a bottle of 5 hour energy, and I was able to swing through kanona real quick to make sure no one messed with my personal vehicle. The down side being I wound up out of hours as soon as I got empty, for which I let josh & Cory know. I think that went in one ear and out the other, since they got a little pissy about my hours situation. I think I will have to stop into waynesboro one of these days and get my vacation form filled out, and let them know they had better not screw this up on me, I have a feeling those 2, or Dale will probably wait until I'm clear across the ocean before calling me to come back off vacation early to cover one of their mess- ups! Lmao

 

Corey was kind of a f*** up when I was there back in 05 but at that time there was an older gentleman in Waynesboro by the name of Norman that kept him in line.

 

Norman was there when I started, he passed away several months ago. By the time I started here, they had pushed him off into part time, after hours.

 

LMAO wow......

 

Welp, I'm just kicking off these two stops in Council Bluffs, IA & Blair, NE then I'm off for vacation until next week. Still have to drop this thing off at Volvo to get the correct clutch put in. I was in for a service last week and wrote up my clutch was going out. Come to find out when I took it to Volvo in Omaha about 4 months ago they didn't have a like for like replacement so they just threw in one they had in stock. Hopefully they get it right this time! Have a good week and I'll see ya when I get back!