First trip wins and losses

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  1. rccarlson22

    rccarlson22 Medium Load Member

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    Dropped a skid steer in Steamboat Springs, CO.

    Guy used to teach ski classes and gave me 2 day passes to the mountain up there! I’ve only been a few times but I really enjoyed it.
     
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  3. rccarlson22

    rccarlson22 Medium Load Member

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    That’s the mountain in the background
     

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  4. DouletTheDriver

    DouletTheDriver Light Load Member

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    holy moly, you out here rolling in dough already! I’m fighting to get out of Houston! I told my wife she might not see me for a month !
     
  5. Lite bug

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    This may or may not help. Met a guy in Atlanta that used to work making HVAC duct work, his business starting getting away from him for whatever reason. So he knew a lot of people making this product. He had a older 7.3 and a tag-along trailer. He wanted to see if he could make a living delivering the products he used to make. Well I ask him how he got back to Atlanta. He just drove back. He was delivering this load 800 miles down the road. He did not know about the load boards. He had plenty of outbound loads. He knew what the market paid to have them moved, and hopefully he started using the load board to get back home and got paid for it. I met him at a large fabrication shop he knew the owners as a former competitor. Just goes to show there are many paths to obtaining business.
     
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  6. rccarlson22

    rccarlson22 Medium Load Member

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    That’s the thing, I’ve been away from home all week :/
     
  7. rccarlson22

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    San Francisco IS A DUMP.

    California is bass akwards
     
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  8. BUMBACLADWAR

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    Almost sounds like Harrisonville,Mo scale? Been yanked in there for trivial reasons .
     
  9. Lite bug

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    Being away from my family was the worst thing about OTR. When I started carrying Bank Vault Doors I would drop and start working my way straight back. By doing it that way I knew when I would get home. Having that routine made things easier. I know a true hotshot will follow the money I could not do that very long.
     
  10. rccarlson22

    rccarlson22 Medium Load Member

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    #### you’re good. Nailed it, like they nailed me
     
  11. rccarlson22

    rccarlson22 Medium Load Member

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    It comes with it, I didn’t get into this expecting to have an abundance of family time. I hope that will change when I’ve been established but for now I understand it’s part of the grind.
     
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