ESTES Express (5 Year Review)

NYC? We ain't got nothing there. Jersey city takes it to islands and ####

 

I've been to New York. Can't recommend not doing that enough. And people complain about the traffic in MY area. Lol

 

When I first started 6 months ago outta Raleigh I stayed up in the northeast for a while but here lately I’ll run to Charlotte then Florida or the Midwest

 

@jtaran06 is Brooklyn not considered part of New York City? It might as well be for an out of towner like me!! well, I guess I would have to suck it up, trip plan extra extra thoroughly, and be extra careful if they sent me there. I've made it through Chicago, Atlanta, LA, Dallas/Fort Worth, hopefully I would do ok in nyc as well. If worse came to worse and I mess up and go down a street I can't get out of, call 911. Better to possibly lose my job than to hurt or kill somebody, has been my motto.

@ltlannonymous when you say "New York" in your posts are you talking about the state of New York or New York City? To be clear, I would have no problems running the state of New York it's just nyc I have qualms about (though I could get over I suppose).

See this is the route I basically run! Midwest, no further in the northeast than the PA/WV/VA line, then the southern states of TN/SC/GA/FL. Sometimes out West and sometimes further south like LA and TX. I like the Midwest and southern routes the best I think. Going out West is nice during the summer though as well.

So you guys are talking about being an extra on a load board. Do you choose your own routes on the load board or does a dispatcher give you a few options to choose from or what?

I seem to recall an old Chinatown post where he said he made more money being an extra on a load board than other drivers who were running dedicated routes.

 

Reckon I oughta get use to 4 day work weeks lol

 

322 tonight lol. 6.5 hrs. Back home.

 

You could not see Brooklyn ever. I haven't been the deep northeast all year.

You choose your routes.

Depends on the schedule dudes route. Some dudes make 2200 every single week running a schedule

 

Are most manuals? How many autos are in your fleets?

For road testing, how strict are they on down shifting versus floating it into gear?

I tested out with a manual so I can legally drive one, but I never could correctly downshift. I just kept it slow as hell during the test, never went above 30 MPH and timed the lights to come to a complete stop so I that could start my gear pattern from scratch.

I also struggled with double clutching. Though my instructors floated gears basically the whole time they drove the trucks so maybe double clutching isn't seen as a big deal in the real world with company road tests?

 

Hope y’all working lol at home tonight too Lol