Con-Way Truckload Drivers: What's Your 20? (2014 edition)

Discussion in 'Con-Way' started by double yellow, Feb 18, 2014.

  1. EtaN

    EtaN Medium Load Member

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    Hello my Conway people's hope all is well. Things going alright for me. Got new job and been running pretty hard. This company lives and dies off preplan. No driver board system. Always preplan and mostly drop and hook. They said driver board is not good for drivers or a well run business. They base it off ETA and PTA here.
     
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  3. frankgh

    frankgh Medium Load Member

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    Good to hear you landed on your wheels, I mean feet! So who are you with?
     
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  4. CargoWahgo

    CargoWahgo Road Train Member

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    Ate a bowl of 5 day old chili.
    30 minutes later walk back in and make two grilled cheese.

    Woman stares at me.

    Cuts one sandwich in half eats the remainder.

    Best grilled cheese shes ever had.

    Kiss the cook ('s butt) that was muh sandwich...

    Need to get out ta here been here two weeks over the past two months. Took 20 days off entire last year. Driving...me.....nuts..... xD

    Go pacers.
     
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  5. frankgh

    frankgh Medium Load Member

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    Biggs Junction OR pilot. Dinner at McDonald's. yuck... Good shake though! Single digit recap... Easy to find parking at 3 pm! 2 hrs away from stop 2, stop 3 is only about 5 miles from there. I need a reset!
     
  6. frankgh

    frankgh Medium Load Member

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    Jublitz in Portland. Taking paper to Olympia. 140 miles. Hard to complain when I had a 4400 mile week last week. Ok I'll complain anyway! Lol!
     
  7. paul_4lp

    paul_4lp Road Train Member

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    We're Alive.....loaded Oil in Tampa to Indy ...Froday 0800 appt

    took an extra day off to go to my nieces Kindergarten graduation party
     
  8. NotTheAverageTrucker

    NotTheAverageTrucker Heavy Load Member

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    Froday, its either a bad hair day, or a day in the Lord of The Rings.
     
  9. CargoWahgo

    CargoWahgo Road Train Member

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    Tried the black cherry drink @ taco bell.

    Not impressed.

    No flavour tasted like air.

    Ever see a tropicalsno pull in and get ya a black cherry red raspberry blue raspberry. Be better off.

    I think one would do excellent in Laredo.


    No truck progress.

    Good paying job pulling cattle and grain in the paper. Just can't take the cows to their death would take them open the door and yell ruuuuunnnnnn!!!!
     
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  10. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    A/C went out a couple days ago (despite a recent week-long stay at the dealership for no A/C). So I got to spend last night sweating in places I didn't know had sweat glands only to be woken when it was finally cool to back into a helacious dock.

    Once empty hours later, I had the pleasure of sweeping strands of fiberglass insulation from the trailer. Hot trailer, sweaty skin, and loose strands of a substance also used to make itching powder -- what's not to like?

    Then I get to the freight yard to pick up my relay and find that some limpdick ignored the gaurd & myriad of signs and dropped the fully loaded trailer not on the concrete pad, but on sun-softened asphalt. Not only that, but they hadn't even lowered the landing gear all the way before squirting out. Hot sun, sweat in my eyes, tenacious strands of fiberglass, & landing gear that hasn't seen grease in years. What could make this day better? How about tandems stuck in an illegal hole? oh yes, & me with no tools...

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    Was looking forward to a cool night's sleep in LA, but i10 has been closed all day due to a truck vs tour bus multi-fatality. So it'll be another warm evening. But I guess my day could have been worse...


    Turn in the truck tomorrow. So far no inklings of a 2nd thought...
     
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  11. Surfer Joe

    Surfer Joe Heavy Load Member

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    Good luck to ya, yeller!
    Out of respect for your guys' thread, I do my best to take my posts elsewhere.
    But oh, so tempted to gloat? Hey, even the Prince of Peace was tempted.
    We're all kindred spirits in the previously worked for Conway experience.
    What's all this about learning from our mistakes?
    I hoped, then I believed, then I realized, then.... well, sometimes a little courage mixed in with a lot of frustration can work wonders for ones' well being.
    Be well!
     
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