An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

I'm still around...just haven't been in a very chatty mood. In fact, after last weekend, I was in an even worse mood (more things went wrong with the truck after I got to Kenly to spend the weekend there, again). I worked with Peoplenet tech support Friday evening for an hour trying to resolve the GPS issue on the ELD without success. They basically said it's a defective unit and have it replaced, which was total BS because some parts of the unit showed a GPS connection. I ended up doing a total app wipe and reload on Saturday afternoon and everything went back to normal, or as normal as Peoplenet ever gets. I will be glad when SPD decides which unit they're switching to and finally kick Peoplenet to the curb. The other problem with the truck was the starter relay in the fuse box, which gets dislodged easily because there is part of a wiring harness that runs right beside the fusebox that curls up in front of the box that you have to move to check fuses. When I moved it Friday night, I accidentally dislodged the relay and the truck wouldn't start. Once I discovered and resolved the problem, that issue was fixed as well. Then on Thursday this week, something got kicked up off the road and took out some air-lines on my air drier between Des Moines and Council Bluffs and I spent 6 hours at the Love's in Shelby, IA getting that mostly fixed. While I was there I found out that my A/M is no longer with the company. The Op's manager (who is now covering his driver board) said he sent out a message, but my POS Peoplenet and app never received it. No explanation as to what happened, just 'no longer with the company' which sucks because I got along with him fairly well, and felt we worked well together.

Picked up a load out of Ravenswood, WV going to western BC, which I am dropping at the Arlington yard tomorrow. My 1st tarped load, and because I was pulling a step-deck instead of a flatbed, they couldn't load it so it would be an easy 1 tarp, square symmetrical load, they had to stretch it out and make it an awkward narrow shaped 2 tarp job where my highest d-rings are less than a foot off the deck on either side...then, 2 of the large patches that were on my front tarp didn't hold, so I ended up using most of a roll of Gorilla tape to keep the load dry. All told, it has been a challenging 15 days...but I still like being part of SPD. Even with the 8 days broke down, and an extra couple days off because of no weekend flatbed freight, I will have turned just over 9300 miles this month.

If people giving me crap pissed me off enough to leave the forum, I would have left long ago...

apples and oranges. How a company treats the drivers as professionals and how they manage their money are 2 separate things...unless you are saying that it's ok to treat the drivers like #### as long as they stay in business...which describes how Wylie did things.

I'd rather eat a bullet than work for this country's corrupt organization, regardless of which political party is running the circus.

 

You know the old saying, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I still wish they would give us a hint about what happened with my A/M...he had been with the company as a driver and then as an onboarding dispatcher...so he had been here a while. The reason I got along with him so well was he understood my occasional sarcastic sense of humor.