I'm sitting here in Carlin, NV, just finished a 10.5 hour, 580 mile day from Salinas, CA...gotta be in Sterling, IL by Tuesday morning at 9:00 am....
Those 3 stop FM loads to Twin Falls, Pocatello, and Idaho Falls are awesome. Usually the load is only about 30k =)
The other day, I took the only trailer available in WVC that didn't have visibly rotten potatoes in it, washed it out and ran up to Hershey's in...
The point of the lease programs is to put the responsibility for that truck into the driver's hands, you can't be called an owner/operator per say...
I love it when people complain to me about different issues they have...yesterday it was a guy that dispatch told he had to stay at the Stockton...
Cummins finally fixed my smoking issue, ended up needing new injector seals. I picked up a load home on tuesday in Ogden, delivered yesterday...
I have found owner/ops to be pretty much useless after I signed the lease...I think of them more as salesmen. Ive asked them several questions...
btw l/o's, what did you all lease? I have an '09 T2000, 13 speed, had 184k on it when I got it, Im now at almost 206k, got it at the end of...
All meat loads have a 10 hour window on them, the shipper can take up to 10 hours to load you before they start paying detention...National Beef...
Most drivers probably already have a laptop. We would have to buy our own scanners, which im thinking about doing anyway to make my own digital...
DM, they are sending a lot of us back there for upgrade l/o class...im supposed to be home on tuesday so i better get a load out monday afternoon...
A 454 will not work. period. It cannot produce near the amount of torque required to move 80000 pounds down the road. Even if it could the gearing...
My family's trucking company out in CA has a '97 T2000 with a DDS60...2,200,000 miles on the chassis, they did an inframe about 200k ago.
Hey guys, I havent been around for a while, hows everyone doing? Some folks seem to be doing great on miles...2000 is a solid week for me in...
Here is some "real" information for you...I guarantee that you will go to class, maybe get kicked out (less than half actually make it to training...
Tell me about it, my co-driver and I got a load to a Walmart DC in Cheyenne, WY out of Clearfield, UT. It was 480 miles, we sat at the terminal...
I probably saw some of you guys in Fontana too, my truck is going into the shop in the next few days while I'm on hometime so if anything you guys...
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I finished training, teamed up with a good friend of mine, and was given a 2007 KW T2000 w/ 570k miles. I'm at home...
He was in the daycab, he said it was a wild ride bringin his load over to SD, I'm still trying to figure out who picked it up that heavy, must of...
This guy rolled up next to me while we were waiting to get unloaded and we got to talking, turned out to be 6pak! Well I finally got to meet the...
