Averitt orientation package

So it's been a few months since I wrote...

Ever since about mid Feb. I have been in the shop for one thing or another (sometimes minor) just about every week. Welp, yesterday I am down near Ashville, NC and pick up a load; pick it up is taking longer since I have to watch a 20 minute video and then there are 3 trucks in front of me. Ok, no big deal as waiting is what we do sometimes...

Fast forward to starting the run: Head to the Tri City SC in TN to fuel and all heck breaks loose. She starts idling so rough that it's shaking me in the seat; I'm hearing a popping niose from the right side of the engine (sounds like the back fire of a car) and it feels as if it's going to stall out any second... I talk to the mech to check it out and he says you need to get to Knoxville soonest. Sounds like a bad cam or fuel injectors.

Get to Knoxville and get the load taken from me so I call break down. about an hour later I'm told to clean my truck out as I will not be driving it any time soon. 1 possibly 2 stuck valves and they will need permission to rip into the engine. Call my FM and explain to him what's going on and BEG to get another cascadia...

Long story short, I ended up with a pallet full of all my belongings (mostly bulky stuff, but still) being loaded onto an LTL going back to my yard in Portsmouth and I hitch a ride home. Now I'm in a 2013 Volvo until such time as I can hopefully get back into a Freight. So now I have to figure out what I have to leave behind as I have no room anymore

MAN, talk about a hectic 24 hours

 

Yea, bad enough that I had to get out of it and they don't know when they might (if at all) get it fixed by Averitt or send it to a Freight dealer to have it worked on. I really do dislike Volvos, but I have to admit that this one is pretty clean, but I know these trucks have a tendency to eat fluids like crazy. This one had 2 gallons of coolant in it when I started to clean it up, so we'll see how it runs here in the next few weeks.

 

HAZMAT does not get extra pay for the loads and yes it is a requirement to get your endorsement within 90 days of your hire date, but Averitt will also reimburse you the money spent on it.

 

Welp... In Toledo Ohio for the night running to WI for the weekend. Still got the dang Volvo. (POS that it is) Talked to the FM yesterday morning, and either I'm going to wait until mine is fixed and get back in it, or he's gonna look for a "newer" model (2013/14) personally I don't care as long as I get back in a Cascadia.