Finally got my own truck

Why don't you look at the load board and make some calls and find out yourself?

 

Conversation overheard at the J Denny's in LaSalle IL last night while I managed to eat their Pot Roast soup-mush type deal:

"They need to take all these Muslims and shoot 'em all in the head! Just take em all out. And ya know, I wish they'd bring back burnin people at the stake!"

I had thought maybe I was a little on the extreme side of Libertarian, but this guy just made me look like a flaming leftist. I didn't bother joining in on the Convo, which was really one sided, as the other fella, who was there before me, just sat and nodded his head. No idea if he knew the guy or not. I don't think he did. The guy came in, sat down, and started talking up a storm.

One day a few years back, I was eating at the TA and there were quite a few truckers sitting around the bar eating, and one fella kept going on about how it's his company's fault he's fat and unhealthy, and that he has to eat at places like the TA and how he has to be a driver because he can't find another job. It's everyone else's fault but his.

Wednesday late afternoon I was loading at some facility down south of Chattanooga, one pimply faced kid who drive for Knight, told me about how his dad went out and bought 7 trucks and lost it all within a year. "We thought it would be old school, where we'd get some of them older drivers who could do mile after mile! It wasn't like that at all! So now we had to go work for Knight. But it ain't too bad, I get $900 a week!"

He was on the exact same run I was on, 350 miles loaded. "My appointment is at 3pm, I told dispatch that it ain't happenin, ain't gonna make it." Mind you, it was 4pm the day before, he was waiting on paperwork, and his appointment was the next day. Mine was at 8am. I made it 5 mins early. Lol. Now granted, if I were on ELogs, it would have been 11am or so, since I didn't get out of there until 6pm, and it was through the gorge and then up winding state highways. But even if I had gotten out the same time he did, I could have legally made it by 9am. But nope, 3pm is out of the question. Lol.

Sitting in Minooka empty waiting for my boss to come pick me up for dinner. I met him once briefly back in late Feb. If he don't foot the bill...

I hope I don't have to go to Chicago tomorrow for a load. I've made it 6 months without having to load or unload near that hell hole. Except once I went from IA to near Milwaukee. I still cringe thinking about how I had to go into WI.

 

I'd think thrice before you go out and do it.

Nobody knows what's going to happen with elogs. I might see my revenue go down 20%. That would be a huge hit.