My journey with Orange starts

From my understanding, she has been with SNI for a couple years as a DBL. Portland has gotten a couple brand new DBL's over the last couple months. Not much experience.

290 miles today. P/U relay here at the OC and headed 147 miles to Federal Way WA for a D/H. No MT in the area, so I BT back to the OC.

New pre assignment for tomorrow is D/H 22 miles to Canby OR. P/U appoinment is between 06:00-10:00. Load is a live load 167 miles in Fife WA. Delivery appoinment is before 15:00 tomorrow.

 

364 miles today. After my live load in Fife, I went to Sumner for a D/H that I will relay in Portland.

This AM, I get a message from my DBL that says"call me about your over speed yesterday". What? Speed limit in WA is 60 MPH and I ran 60MPH. A couple hills I got near 62MPH, but that was it.

So I go in to see her. She says my over speed was at 1.6% yesterday and for the month is 1.4%. OK. She says Portland OC wants over speed at less than 1%. Company policy is less than 5% and you are OK WTF. My over speed has never been more than 4%. This is news to me. I told her that it would have been nice to be notified first that over speed was 1% instead of a "I gotcha" message.

She also said that over speed is at 60. I told her that I was told when I first started it was 61. I was wrong. She said don't go over 58 or 59MPH. Now you can't even do the speed limit. Houston, we may have a problem.

How about those retro fits. Horn blows if you don't set your brakes before you open your door and cruise goes off when you turn your windshield wipers on.

 

New pre assignment is to P/U relay at the OC and head North 201 miles to Everett WA for a D/H. Then BT back 201 miles to Portland.