Millis OTR journal

I'm wondering about that too but I haven't seen any new trailers yet.

 

I guess in this case the obvious answer was the correct one. Looking at the atlas, it looked like going that way added a lot of miles to the trip. I liked going through the woods....once. Seemed like it took forever, though.

Is that also the case with going from Waco to points east on I20? I just had a glass load from there to Albany, and the GPS took me along 2-lane back roads (some with 75 MPH speed limits!) almost all the way out to the Louisiana state line before it got me to 20. Should I have just gone up 35E?

 

Save the hassle and the time, especially in the crappy weather. Eat the miles.

Can't help with the Texas part, sorry.

 

The 2019 trailers we are getting(sometime) are going to be duals, just like the 2019 trucks.

 

Week one with my trainer will.be in the books after we deliverna 2 stop in New Jersey. 2600 miles that i drove this week and m trainer has drivel 1100. So should be a good pay day. Im thinking i hate the east coast.

 

My trainer liked to spend all day talking on the phone too but we still got good miles.

It's funny you mention those cities. My very first solo load was to that beer distributor in Waldorf, MD. First thing in the morning too. I ended up sleeping at that sorry excuse for a rest area on I66 and getting up early to take it in. Then I saw that there was a Walmart right down the street that apparently allows overnight truck parking. Oh well. You live and learn, I guess.

Every time I drive in Atlanta I get on the CB and rant about how stupid I am. Why? Because I lived there for almost a decade. Mostly loved it but got tired of the crime and more relevantly, the traffic. After the company I was working for went kaput, I decided it was time to be closer to family. Then I decided to try this truck driving thing and go to work for a company that has a lot of freight around Atlanta. Stupid, stupid me.

It took me FOUR hours to get from the Pilot in Jackson, GA to Cartersville last week. When I left Albany I had enough hours to make it to Knoxville. I had planned on spending the night at the Flying J. By the time Atlanta traffic was finished trashing my clock, I had just enough time to make it to Cville.