Getting back in the swing of things

Well looks like I'm about to make it a reality I guess I'm going back to OTR just got the call confirming the details and the pay working for a small heavy haul outfit out of jacksonville 9 trucks all together but growing. from what i hear and saw at there yard they haul a lot of richie bro and other auctions equipment and quite a bit for the military pay is pretty standard for heavy haul OTR outfits here in the area 25% of the load minus permits and escorts.with my experience they want me driving a 4 axle truck one of the 2 pictured below (not sure which) and a tri-axle w/4th flip basically going from chicago iowa down to texas and everything east except for anything NYC and above unless i want to.

Im giving up a decent paying local gig but theyr'e maintenance department is a joke 3 months with out a/c in florida and no fix anytime in the future the truck is the 94 KW in my signature and it is absolutely wore out along with the lowboy that i pull that develops a new crack someone on the frame daily smh so im guessing i will not miss this company much
truck 1 that im hoping to get is a 2007 western star with a 550 kitty cat and a 18 and truck #2 is a 09 pete old ATS truck with a 72" bunk and apu and a 20k front axle on floats but in all honesty im not really a big fan of the DPF system that were in place on these trucks and i hate 1 stack trucks with a passion atleast the star car is a little more my style haha

i'll keep y'all updated on this thread as to where this goes i put in my week notice tomorrow in the am as i didn't get the confirmation call this 430 pm today on friday making sure we were good to go and all my bosses there's like 10 of them i lost count all went home at noon

 

thank bud i see myself asking a lot of advice from you in the future haha im used to 5 and 6 axles not 8 lol

yea she is i put in for it they said that i might get it but we'll see i may have to put my time in the ATS truck and go from there. but hey ill ALMOST take a freight shaka right now if they fix my truck and it has WORKING air conditioning lmao

 

not sure i do know it was restored to factory settings apparently from one of the wrecker drivers that occasionally drives it said she does 80 quite nicely and has all the power you'll ever need going up hills loaded. it also has 2 speed rears which will be a new thing for me... any tips?

oh and I put my 1 week notice in today at work my immediate supervisor asked what they could do to make me stay i told them put my truck in to a legit outside shop to have the a/c and everything else that is wrote up fixed by the end of the week (me and maintance supervisor do NOT get a long) Also throw me an extra $2.00 an hour which is fair for the area. Nothing to drastic and my supervisor agreed it was fair but we'll see if the upper echelons agree if not saturday is my official last day and monday i start at sky heavy haul.

why me and and the maintenance supervisor don't get along you ask? i almost got him fired a few weeks ago by getting him all fired up on the company wide group e-mails when I called him out on something finally breaking after I wrote it up for 6 weeks solid that it was worn out and he lost his temper.

 

haha so did id say 95% of the company the next few days haha

well long story short he is a legitimate as***** that has a very deep seated gripe with truck drivers and equipment operators and yes i can't make this up is terrified of grease or oil. i can go in to detail why this is and how he is but i'll spare you guys lol. what it boils down to is the owner loves him because he supposably save the company thousands and he can spot whats wrong with the truck or dozer just by looking at it.... as for the rest of the company.... i have yet to find anyone that can stand the man. In my short 100 days with the company i know of at least 8 different people who quit because of him and him alone.

So i guess to answer your question would be a little from column A,B,&C lol he'll fix obvious DOT writable problems but as for anything even remotley considered a creature comfort for forget about it. hell he wont replace a $15 pigtail connector so that the ramps on my trailer work. I literally have to use a set of jumper cables and now they are coming apart lmao. I had a jobsite foreman that knows me pretty well watch this debacle shake his laughed a little and asked why in the hell i was still here and that was ridiculous