Climate Express

Headed to Temple, TX for Sunday delivery. Will come out to roughly 2700 miles from Tuesday evening to Sunday.

I’m starting to understand why you all say ‘Climate Miles’ so often

 

I love it!!

 

Welcome to the Climateers?

 

7 hours to get in the gate at Hershey due to their system being down just to pick up this. I have no idea how people are fine with not doing a simple post trip for 3 minutes at the expense of hours for someone else, but it is what it is.

 

Well, I’ll quit spamming this thread with posts after this one lol, but figured I’d give my ‘almost one week’ review.

Sitting here near Waco after that storm with 60mph winds blew through. Picking up in Dallas to deliver to Coke in Saint Charles Tuesday. Will be roughly 3300 miles in 7 days by tomorrow night. Loving it here so far — DM’s are great about booking loads with just enough time that I don’t have to rush, but tight enough I’m not sitting around for hours and hours. They’ve also been great about letting me do my thing and not calling for ETA’s and check ups. Maintenance was great and friendly when I needed a tire. All the customers and other climate drivers have been friendly and professional. The prepaid lumper at McLane by Hershey was convenient. The routes have been logical and the fuel stops have been spaced well so that I still have a choice to skip and go to the next so that I can keep my door closed. Easily the most comfortable truck I’ve been in. The ONLY nitpick I have so far with Climate is that the trucks feel like they can’t pull themselves out of a wet paper bag on I-44, but the comfort definitely makes up for it.

Decided to upgrade my CB tonight as well so I didn’t have to wait til I got home to throw my usual radio in lol. Felt weird not having one.

 

i bought that same radio,i kinda regret after seeing all the different analog buttons i had to figure out.i feel more comfortable with a cobra radio.

 

Vacation is over, back out with my fellow Climateers. Picking up in the boondocks here in the Hillbilly, del tomorrow in St Louis.

 

Was mainly interested in the Bluetooth mic option. I’m a young’n so anything overly complicated with technology piques my interest lol. Had a 29 LX before this, so it isn’t much different. I like the nostalgic look of the classics more though.

Yeah, that’s a big downside of upstate NY — not much freight coming out, especially for a company trying to get to a specific area. The last couple times I was up there, it turned into a day layover waiting on something halfway decent to pop up. On the bright side, you can avoid most of the mess on 71/70 if you run it overnight.

Welcome back to the party. The boonies isn’t a bad place to be — less headache, more scenery.