Leaving for Orientation 10-13-12 in Tulsa,Ok

well I have been lazy lately so I figured I would do a writeup, starting around june I had my 12 year old with me for a few weeks , we got a lot of decent loads and averaged about 2500 miles a week for 4 weeks . It was a nice month , we did six flags in St. Louis and splash town in houston had a good time and made some nice memories, then my younger son got out and the older one jumped in , it went well however 17 year olds really really are different than ordinary living human beings . He mostly wanted to drink eat and sleep and maybe go to a movie but never look out the window or pay atention to anything that had to do with the country , or the trucking world in general . I am really glad he came and I got to spend time with him but it only lasted 2 weeks and that was fine for me I look forward to seeing him on hometimes again lol. had another decent week after that and then last week happened . Definitely not a typical week and Melton was extremely accommodating but seriously bums you out when working over the road . I unloaded on Monday in L.A. after only getting a 6?? mile weekend load to make 1800 for the week , sucks but it goes with the territory and I have had plenty of good weekend loads. I needed to take the truck to the shop for apu problems and I found the shipper broke a board in the deck with his forklift wheel and then to top it off my d/s low beam wouldnt work for a few hours monday morning. Truck and trailer took from monday at noon til Thursday night to get resolved. Melton sprung for hotels without a peep and I REALLY LIKE THAT ABOUT MELTON. Still no miles = no money except for layover pay which was about 75 bucks I think for the week ,sure makes for a boring week that ends up costing more than you made even though your not off work, not at home , and can't make any money. This is part of Trucking , it sucks but it is. This week is going better , got a decent load to start it off with and I should dig out of last weeks hole without a problem.

 

ended last week with about 2600 ish miles , had some ups and downs with loads I didn't care for , really had me in a bad mood starting this week not really anybodies fault ( except maybe mine ) but that comes and goes with this job. I started off this week with a 400 miles tarp load that tore up my tarps a little and really annoyed me ( again my fault but in my defense blargle blargle ) and then hit paydirt with a 2000 mile spool load to houston then home a few days early for a week of hometime. oh and my apu took another dump so am back in a hotel tonight north of houston. will end this week with 2600 miles and 1 tarp load out of 2 loads total. sure hope somebody is getting a idea of what we do out here from this thread lol kinda hate I was writing in it for nothing.

 

Well I can add more to this later but I am at home cleaning out my truck. I had a disagreement about hometime with my DM and decided it was time , yeah I would have liked to stay longer but this was something I needed melton to budge on ( the dates of my hometime ) , my dm said No. so I am putting in my notice, cleaning out my truck and hauling my last load to Dallas then turning in my truck in Sunnyvale. I don't think bad about Melton, I am not all angry with my DM , its just a issue of hometime dates I can't let go , Melton didn't say or do anything wrong I just put in for hometime a week ago and I was close to home and asked if I could go home , they said no. If you want to say someone was unreasonable you can say I was because I wasnt willing to sit around different places with odd loads while melton fumbled trying to get me home again. They might of got me a load straight home , or I might have been sitting someplace rediculous 2 days after my hometime should have started which is kinda the usual thing for me. I can't be clearer about this Melton didn't break a promise or do anything out of character , I just don't feel like blowing another hometime when I found myself unloaded 120 miles from home and I could just be off a few days early. I will update how the final 4 days went after I get back home. Nobody has offered to buy me a bus ticket home for bringing their truck back so I am making a reservation now, I am curious to see if Melton charges me for anything or messes with my DAC but I wouldnt think they would and have never heard of that before. On a side note I was 37th in the company out of like 1100 drivers on the company scorecard lol .

 

p.s. Noggin wears lady undergarments because he is secure with his masculinity.

 

I reread that and that was just for last month , normally I am somewhere between 1-200, I have only got the fuel bonus once and if I worked harder on that ( go slow ) I might have made some more points for the rating system.