That's why I usually start my day at 3 am
I drove tanker for schneider for 2 years and although there are some respectable people in the bulk division, the company is set up to make...
let someone with a stick shift do it? hard to find these days
yeah, I saw that route on google maps and thought better of. I used to live in Leadville, it's bad driving a pickup truck back there let alone a semi.
I am nothing but a steering wheel holder, just like everyone else that has a computer geek from silicon valley work the clutch and shift the gears...
I saw several different routes; one went through Payson then to Holbrook and I40 to 25 north, the other was 60 to 77 to Holbrook then 40 to 25,...
I did 17 to 89 to 160 to 191 then i 70. Only tough spots were Vail Pass, the climb to the Eisenhower tunnel and the hump right before you roll...
There were a few country singers that sung about nothing but truck driving back in the 60s and 70s, C W McCall was one and Lynyrd Skynyrd sung...
True but the traffic on 40 is heavy and I'm pretty sure there will be an accident and major road construction between Flagstaff and Albuquerque.
Yeah, I was looking at going 60 to 77 but I saw how squiggily it got northeast of Globe Az. and thought better of it.
to see if someone has a better idea. WTF
I was thinking 17 n to 89 to 163 to 191 then I 70
Anybody have a good route?
the 30 minute break can be on or off duty
my company took away the manual control option from the whole fleet
stick shifts are harder and harder to find and most auto trucks are programmed for economy. Hornady might still have some manuals in the fleet but...
40 is low. 2400 miles a week is about average in flatbed so that's less than $1000 a week, which isn't bad but there is more to be made elsewhere.
40 cents a mile for otr flatbed
they have it down now
I went through in 2008, they never said anything about TMC