Morehouse/FCC

I mean when you think every thing is fine and just hit rem sleep and the apu quits that is the worst for me (cpap).

 

Like these new Freightliner at GO Express, you can only idle above 90 F or below 20 or 25 F, don't remember exactly. Doesn't bother me anymore, I left GO two weeks ago, that POS Cascadia and I didn't get along, that truck made me sick!
No more reefer for me, and back in a 2019 Volvo with O/O specs

 

As a company driver, I never know what the rates are. Am curious tho, just what are the east coast rates coming out?

 

That's a nice lookin ride, good luck with your new gig!

 

The main reason to leave was that Cascadia. Was driving this truck for two hrs and my butt and back started hurting. 3 weeks till I got home again and it was just a nightmare. The new smell of this truck was so bad that I got a headache every day. The exhalation of theses chemicals from the cheap plastic was so bad, my wife was standing outside of the truck when I cleaned her out at home and she said, she can smell it a few feet away, this was after I had the truck for 4 weeks.
Another reason was that dispatch was lying to me too much about available loads. They have their buddies who get the easy and good loads and I wasn't one of them. Running my butt off with loads that were not ready on time just to sit and wait a day to get the next load to run my butt off. Still got my miles, but the way how I got them didn't work out for me anymore. They hire more and more new drivers that are dumb as a rock and you have to work with them.
Too often I had to call the shop when I picked up a loaded trailer with worn out tires. It was my lost time and money
I see it going downhill more and more at GO and this truck I got was the last straw.

The new truck I have now rides so smooth, it's a 740, a bit less room and storage than my last 780, but 500 HP engine, additional air ride an the steers, 75 mph, bunk heater but no APU but I can idle whenever I need to feel comfortable and so on. With this truck driving makes fun again
I don't have to swap trailers and deal with the incompetence of other drivers.
Was tired of all that reefer ######## sitting for hours and wait. I rather work two hours to secure my load than sitting at cold storages and be treated like crap.
And I can keep my schedule, 4 weeks on and one week off

 

When I called this place to see if they had ovnp, I didn't know that it was an Amish farm and that I would be over nighting by the pig sty!!!!