Where Are You Continues, Again.....

Actually I think Rocks is lucky enough to not get lied to very much because of where she works. At least not near as often as folks who work for most outfits.

 

Yes my wife is with me
Here are a few pictures from our trip

The first 1 Is the desert by Death Valley Junction, California
The 2nd is at Hoover Dam
The 3 rd is the Grand Canyon

 

How long are you willing to work for free? I was hired around August 5th. I was in #4835 August 18th. It was an abandoned load in Massachussetts.


I parked the truck at last destination October 25th in Sydney Maine. I had offered to get a load that would be driven as far as the yard in Tennessee.
Dispatch countered with an offer of drive with us for two more weeks and we will try to route you to the yard. For two months I had been asking whem were they to pay me. Each time it was next week. Or we cant find you in the system. I drove more than 20k miles for free. I was told I would see a paycheck weekly of at least $800. When they did pay me it was a mere $1300. Oh and the markets were imploding in the fall of 2008.

When I did get paid there were about $3000 worth of deductions. Nope, not returning to them. They soaked me $25 for requesting trailer maintenance or flat repair (of which they wouldnt send repair but had to haul the broken trailer to a garage for repairs). Charged me for tire failures. Had a trailer that was so badly aligned that after driving it for 2 hours it had scuffed all the treads off and was down on the wires. They didnt want to do a road call and had me haul it some 25 miles back up the road to a garage. When it got there the casings had all exploded and it needed rims too. Yup interesting company.

They didnt pay me until mid November. A neighbor in the summertime whom had stock in them, sold off their stocks and gave me $400 and thanked me for letting him know what kind of company he didnt want to invest in

 

When I did get it home from Mass. The first thing I did was to wash it. Observe the gas tank being two different colors. Also the rust is gone that was at the door.

 

Its confidential. She doesnt even like to tell you the color of her truck. I know it, all I can say is the color is a shade of ##################### with ###########

 

Sorry to hear that

 

Haha maybe I can catch it in a reflection in one of the photos

 

If anyone cares. This is how far we are into spring here in Maine. Lawns are beginning to green and all the trees have tiny green buds on them.

 

Dang. So bummed for you back then.

If it was like that now I’d be out of there like I was shot out of cannon!! You’re a better man than me, I wouldn’t put up with that for a week without getting paid.

My DM asked if I wanted a load back to Maryland yesterday. I told him if he needed me to do it I would. He said it’s a a really good load there, but then you’ll get three ####ty loads before you get routed back. Did I have any other reason to go there? He’s like a travel agent sometimes. He said staying here I’ll get six good loads in the same time frame and will make $XXXX more.

Love that dude.

 

I did have a good DM at one time. Tony something. I swear he was a basketball star. Stood 6'8". Yes everyone got to look up to him.
It was the weekend DM that was a interesting piece of work. Terrible loads with alot of dead head miles, Stuff Rocks would have avoided