Let the journey begin!!

Here after a few hours of sleep I will be hitting the highway headed to St. Cloud for orientation on Tuesday morning. I'm going lease flatbed with no prior flatbed experience and first lease...
I plan to do my best to keep this thread updated on my experience with ATS.

 

Lol never a victim... Truck'n just like life is a game of chess not checkers

 

Well after a long day after driving all night to get here, the first day of orientation is over and not sure how I feel about it all yet. Maybe because I was so sleepy and was hard to really concentrate.
I was definitely not impressed with the equipment available to pick from. There is six of us on the flatbed side and we had seven trucks to pick from. I was the lucky person that got to go last

The he seven trucks where:

09 Columbia w/Detroit 527k mi
12 Pete 386 w/cummins 258k
12 Volvo 780 w/cummins 295k
12 Coronado w/Detroit 336k
13 Pete 386 w/cummins 210k
13 Coronado w/Detroit 151k
09 Columbia w/Detroit 395k

by time it got to me, I had the two most expensive trucks to pick from, the 13 Coronado and the 12 Volvo. I got the Coronado.

 

The 2 Columbia's were $250 and $292. The 2 Pete's were $410 & $440. The 2 Coronados were $390 & $465. The Volvo was $410.
If I had first pick I would have took the 09 Columbia with condo sleeper and 395k miles for $292 a week or the 12 Coronado for $390.
tomorrow we sign our leases and get the full breakdown of all our fixed cost, I will let you know the damage tomorrow night.
Overall, I'm impressed with the company and see a future here.