Beginning a journey at Danny Herman Trucking

I believe it with how full the truck stops always are in Phoenix mid day. I think I might have had unrealistic expectations for downtime between loads since I always worked for upper Midwestern companies. Freight is probably a lot easier to find near Chicago than in a desert lol.

Still bothered that layover pay is lower than breakdown pay, but better than none at all. Worse places to be spending January 10th at than a 75 degree day in Phoenix, so it’s all relative I guess.

 

With the breakdown pay mileage adjustment, I was able to hit the mileage bonus for Dec. 6 to Jan. 6, so I can at least say that is a real thing here and not a chasing the dragon situation that’ll never be obtained. I don’t know how consistent it’ll be, but at least made it once, so getting +4 cpm helps a little.

If everything goes smoothly for a month, I could see where drivers could gross 75-80k in a year, but still waiting on the ‘goes smoothly’ part

 

Things picked back up. Took a load from Nogales, AZ to drop at terminal in Lebanon, TN. Deadheaded up to Lexington, KY and now headed to drop this load in Dallas and take a 34. Preplanned for Monday already to head up to Elkhart, IN for a FCFS delivery, so should be about 3800 miles in 8 days. I guess I need to work on my patience a bit with the holidays. There’s 100 other places I’d rather go to than Elkhart after working for a Joliet, IL outfit for a year, but at least it’s from Dallas and not across I-80. Should be easy miles

 

Just gets more and more pitiful by the day. Sitting here in the Dallas yard waiting for an empty. See a truck pull in. Brand new truck with the mirror cover tore off. They drop their trailer, I check that it’s empty and then hook up and pre-trip it.

Greeted by this tire that’s been bald for at least a couple months at this point. Maintenance had zero concerns about drivers (multiple to be that bald) dropping junk. Just a ‘do you mind taking it to get a new tire?’