Trans Am Still

Hope it will work out for you with the dedicated runs, Kris. I can imagine your kids miss you a lot while you're gone.

 

Ty Torres Yes everyone here has been very helpful. Thanks for all the gray advice and guidance. One of my strengths is making the best out of situations and adapting. My recruiter is jonnete as well so far everything she has said sounds legit. I am not going to lease. It just don't sound wise or profitable. Thanks again everyone for the help.

 

Good deal TX Hounddog. Jonette is real nice and a cutie too. I wish you all the best. Try to hang in there for a year if you can.

 

Headed out tomorrow to Rocky Mount to swap out a damaged trailer with product with my trailer. A vendor is offloading the trailer. I will deliver the load to Greensboro and head back home to finish my hometime. Perfectly willing to do it. Getting paid mileage plus hourly to cover my time.

 

Just touching base...sitting at my first drop in Minnesota at 7a, then 5 hours to my next drop, top off, and head to the house. It'll be good to get this first run out of the way and be back in the groove. After running in the oilfield for the last few years I forgot how much I liked road haulin'. Got to drive thru Yellowstone yesterday and felt downright grateful to be able to do this for a living. Should be a decent first check...which is nice cuz I took the 'man it's nice to be home' paradigm to an almost unhealthy extreme. Nine days out feels like an overnight camp out compared to the hitches I pulled in the patch tho.

Hope all you good folks have a great weekend and are enjoying your summer!

 

Indiana police issued a total of 243 citations and 289 warnings during last week’s “Operation Truck Stop“, an enforcement blitz aimed at truckers on U.S. 20 and State Road 2 last week.

“Operation Truck Stop” was a response to complaints from the public about heavy truck traffic and reckless driving by truck drivers in Porter, LaPorte and St. Joseph Counties.

Indiana State Police announced the results for the campaign this week. They cited 36 trucks for overweight violations, 105 for Federal Motor Carrier violations and placed 14 trucks out of service. They performed 89 truck inspections during the week.

Indiana police also arrested a trucker for Operating While Intoxicated and confiscated a stolen firearm. There was an arrest for marijuana possession.

The La Porte County Sheriff considers the campaign a success. He said, “Our collective goal was to make our roadways safer for all who travel and judging by the statistics, we all took a substantial step toward achieving our targeted goal.”

 

FYI -


At once, Starks pointed to distressing signs for long-haul owner-operators in the spot market, where, despite rates controlled for fuel fairly close to levels relative to performance last year, market demand overall is measuring at “half of what it was in 2014.” He cited the Truckstop.com Trans4Cast market demand index for that measure. “It speaks to the loosening of the capacity situation” as year-over-year growth in total truck loadings (particularly on the long-haul side, reflected in the graph at right) has slowed considerably with sluggish industrial-economy and business-investment measures. Still, with consumer activity continuing to prop up the economy, Starks projected “better growth as we start into next year.” Of those “super long-haul loadings,” most reflective of what’s happening on the spot market, he said, “we’re seeing a lot of weakness right now.”


If rates are flat or even down a little, where’s the capacity crunch / driver shortage so many talk about so often of late? asked Overdrive reader Kurt Keilhofer in this story from yesterday. According to analyst Noel Perry, such pressures have loosened this year to “normal” status in a recovery. Nonetheless, Perry sees future regulatory impact as potentially dramatic by 2017-’18, provided FMCSA is able to do what they say they’re going to do, particularly relative to speed limiters and electronic logging devices. In 2017 when speed limiters and ELDs and other important changes hit the real world, the trucking industry “will have to hire a whole bunch of extra drivers. If the FMCSA continues with their agenda, the regulatory risks are real,” he said.

 

Ok....everyone has checked in except for passport ......Don't make me get out the stickpins and voodoo doll...

 

Well I guess I should check in to as I am about to head to mount vernon il to pick up a horse trailer then.

Any suggestions as far as good resturants goes in the Chattanooga Knoxville area

 

Sorry, SRQGhost, I knew I was missing someone. I will have to see what I can find as far as restaurants go.