5 months experience. Looking for family owned CO to drive for.

I drove Volvos for a long, long time. I loved mine. It was almost too spacious and it rode like a cloud. It always had some small electrical issue and it popped trailer marker light fuses, but that was when dropping and hooking 3-6 trailers per night. I used to remember the address in the fuse panel, "OK look at the yellow 20 amp fuse in the F23 position. Replace it and your trailer lights will be good to go." No tools required once Volvo put a secondary fuse panel under the hood on the firewall near the steering shaft.

Q: How do you know the Volvo is working?
A: The small engine light on the dash is lit up.

 

"At ABC Trucking you are more than a number."
I think every company used to say that until the new generation showed up. The newbies have a phobia of a conversation. They dream of being a number in a big company."

 

“5 months of OTR experience” and “the most money possible” are exclusive to each other.

 

There's something nice about being able to just do your job and not deal with small carrier drama. Though I think with the zoomers it might be all the tiktoks and instagrams that claim they do nothing at a company because they're too big to notice.

 

well, possible is the qualifier.

so, most possible ain't that much?

 

That's why I stayed at a big company for a long time. Show up after big boss went home. Drive all night. Don't answer the phone. Go home before big boss came to work.

 

You ain't lying about that!! I read that and laughed lol....the small electrical issues is the worst thing about them and you learn to live with that. The durability factor is another thing that I like. The last brand new one they put me in, I didn't have a major issue til 369k miles, and the exhaust manifold needed replacing. We replace the trucks just shy of 500k

 

One thing that really sold me on Volvo is that smooth ride across I-10 in Louisiana.

 

That's an indicator of who he has been talking to. I'm inclined to believe it's a grumpy old timer that spends too much time at the truck stop. Many drivers come into the industry, impressionable as ####. They never learn their "trucker personality" and that's why they hop around so much. They think the "small family owned company" will make them feel good, pay more money, treat them as of they're irreplaceable, and fit whatever romanticized vision of trucking they have, and yet, the common denominator is that regardless of where you go, your success is contingent on what you put into it.