Talk to me about why...

Where to start?

I have no dog so I can't say my dog has been kicked...
Have been jacked around by DBL regarding TAH...the other DBL's in my OC have never driven or actually been on OTR...no clue as to the true realities.

A typical day of WTF: Spent day and a half at Coors trying to get a load moved so it could be scaled and come out with numbers that were legal; 5 tries and the best they could do was 34240 on the tandems. The shipper told me to slide my tandems on a load headed to California; he insisted it could be done and no one would notice...I suggested he give me a blank check just in case I got caught...he didn't think that was funny. 60$ detention was all I was given.
On the bright side I was taken off that load and sent downtown for pet food, unfortunately that was during a hail storm and tornado warning with the route flooded out for most of the afternoon. I have never really liked Denver, I am much more of a Boulder kind of guy.
Have taken to ignoring Jill and depend on my Garmin 80% of the time...only the last few turns as I get close does Jill get me back (she totally screwed up the Sports Authority in Fontana and Lifetime in Clearfield UT), even then I keep one eye on the Garmin and one on Jill. Had to laugh at the "company men" spewing the company line on the Buzz the other day touting the remarkable advantages to Navigo...what a bunch of shills.

What I have learned in just a few short weeks...besides a loaded trailer we are expected to haul buckets of bovine excrement. I am sure every company is the same only difference is the color of the bucket and maybe it is drier or wetter or smellier or whatever. The industry is full of bad docks in crowded alleyways, impatient and selfish drivers double parking or leaving their rigs at the fuel island, ###### shippers who don't care or understand the HOS situation we labor under and who need you to wait until after their break before they load the last pallet, bad directions, bad food, bad roads and dirty toilets.
I still dig doing this and the heavier the bucket the more fun it is...solving ridiculous problems that never have to be there in the first place but because of pedantic micro-management, absurd conditions of HOS regulation, the savage and jumbled realities that have been brought about by de-regulation of the industry and lastly the well intended technologies that are operating off of 1.0 design when 100.0 improvements are available mean the buckets are here to stay and they only way forward is to keep a smile on your face and an eye toward the future...O/O?

If only I could get Jill to properly pronounce RENO...

Little Eddy
sorry, the color has been drained away...


PS: Unlikely I will be posting any more as I have other pans in the fire that are more demanding of my time...thanks to all for welcoming me on to this forum and thanks to all for their advice and suggestions. To anyone who has the same questions I had I will say this...SNI has buckets, everyone has buckets, SNI's buckets are little different than the other's buckets...the advantage is better pay VS Werner or Swift and the equipment is fairly good: plus you get out there much faster and start actually making money. Good luck to all, stay safe, don't let the buckets hit the fan.