Calex Express....My New Home!

Between you and me, I know how the process works with them, they need a driver from your area and you passed the most important part, the MVR and DAC reports. If he told you that he's checking previous employment than you will be good to go as long as that comes back good.

 

Bingo! You're exactly right. Since I've been here they haven't sent a driver home that they told to come to Pittston.

 

It's is truly my pleasure to post my thoughts about Calex, and my every day travels as I go about doing my job. If anyone can use any of this information to help them with employment here then I am very grateful about passing the word. Ones record and qualifications is what get's them hired, I'm just a messenger. Good luck with the rest of the process, keep us posted.

 

Get yourself a battery tender. I keep mine in my garage but keep the battery tender hooked up to it while I'm gone.

 

Rhino, nice to hear you're doing well and happy now. Care to share the company for whom you're hauling now? In any case continued best of luck!

 

Gary, how's Vegas treating you? When will you be here in Barstow?

 

Happy holidays everyone! Let's all finish out the year safely and go home to enjoy our families during Christmas and New Year's eh?

I sit in Las Vegas now, visiting my money from the old days... I delivered here this morning and now have until Wednesday to reload down in Vernon CA, heading back for Pottsville, PA.

It's 65 and sunny here today - just beautiful. Had some Rubio's Fish Tacos yesterday upon arrival - the next best thing to Imo's Pizza in St. Louis. (BTW Johnny - I was going to offer you some Imo's that I saved on board here - until you spelled it Emo's in your previous post. Now I just cannot, I'm sorry. J/K pal, you can have it anytime.

I see the horrible snowstorm that hit the upper midwest yesterday, and pray for the well-being of everyone who was caught in that storm, it was a doozy I understand. Think we did the right thing taking the southern route out here this time. My theory is, since Calex is wonderful enough to allow us to route ourselves, this is the time of year to take advantage of the few extra miles required to stay south and safe. Just one accident or shutdown of the highway for hours/days would more than offset the slightly longer distance, no? Old man Winter is back with a vengeance - let's be careful out there.

Calex has been very very good to me and my family this year, and I'm grateful to have found a company who knows my name, works with me to get home when I need to be there, and takes good care of their equipment. I'm very grateful. And I've made some good friends this year and count JohnBoy among my best friends now. I just don't call him before he's had his first cup of coffee in the morning - after that, he's good to go

Merry Christmas to all and have a happy new year! BTW, anyone with Sirius/XM radio - there's a Paul McCartney concert tonight at 8ET on Howard 101. That's why I felt compelled to go with a Mr. Burns salute to the Beatles today.

 

Johnny, heading across the street soon to get a room at our favorite casino/hotel. Will head to CA on Wed. morning probably. 262 miles to Vernon. Will stop at our favorite place on the CA/NV border for breakfast probably.

 

I'll be back in Ontario after unloading tomorrow. That's if I'm loading out by Yuma. I'll know tomorrow where I'm loading. I'm looking at the number of people on this blog and it say's 10 members and 8 guests, not bad.

 

JB, kind of an off the wall question here. Are you running factory antennas, or have you routed your own coax/antenna setup? Also what kind of radio do you run. Reason I ask is because my 2010 Mack gives me nothing but BS when it comes to radio, grounding issues, static, etc. I've spent countless hundreds of dollars on everything from the radio, to numerous coax's at different lenghts, close to 400 dollars in trucker style whips, and at the end of the day I'm still up poo's creek without a paddle. Some of our new trucks have the factory duals with the coax already built in and all the guys are running it with their radios, sound fine to me, but I've always been told by the CB guru's that factory is nothing but junk, I'm starting to think they're just telling me that so I'll buy their hottest new fangled item at 20% over retail