My first couple months with Shaffer / Crete

Well, chasing my 70 was an unmitigated disaster. My income over a month was pitiful compared to when I pushed harder, and I had no full days off for 34's, so it was the worst of both worlds.

I've advised my asset manager that I am going to run hard again, because I lost about 1500 dollars compared to what i should have made over a bit more than a month since my last time home.

 

Yeah. That's how I prefer to run too. Ideally, I drive 10.5+ hours per day, and will work 14 hours to get as many miles in as possible if I spend a lot of time off duty at shippers or receivers.

 

He didn't give me a hard time about it. I think he really did give it a good try to get me miles, and discovered that when I push harder, it's easier for him to get me more miles. Since asset manager performance metrics are based on driver metrics, if I drive more, his numbers look better.

 

Merry Xmas right back at ya!

Shaffer got me home for Xmas, which was nice, but I wasn't able to flip my sleep schedule in a day, so i ended up coming back to the truck and driving 400 miles on Xmas day, rather than coming back to the truck and sleeping before driving those miles.