CRETE - A Year in Review

I stand corrected. My apologies.

 

You're luckier than most. For the 1st half of '12 I am under 10k/month. July ended up just under 11k, and this month I am sitting at 4494 by the 10th and planning on staying out until the end of the month or early September. So, things are looking up for a bit...I hope it keeps up.

 

My inquiry was regarding Celedon handing the drivers $50 bucks and firing them. Might be true, might not be but I doubt it is.

 

I have felt like that a good bit the last few years, but I have yet to come up with another job where I can even come close to what this one puts in the bank.

A lot of people read about the trouble that comes my way, or hear the stories that I have to tell while sitting around the imaginary campfire at the Snackbar campground and wonder how I can get out of bed in the morning most of the time...The way I explain it (and the way I explained it to my son who has almost as bad experiences with Mr. Karma as I do) is this....There is a finite amount of bad that is going to happen to this world. Some folks are stubborn and strong willed and refuse to let it keep them down, which I happen to be one of...Then there are others that aren't as good at handling an overwhelming amount of bad things happening...Therefore, people like my family and I take on as much crap that is put on us...then stare Karma in the eye and shout IS THAT ALL YOU GOT>>>BRING IT ON YOU SON OF A *BLEEP*...YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!!!!!....it is our station in life...the more we accept, absorb and endure...the easier it is for someone else in this world. That way, when life, Karma, luck...what ever it is to be called....does hand them something bad, it isn't more than they can handle. Some people call it being cursed...I say we have been blessed with an abundance of tolerance for the bad things in life, that and a unique ability to find humor at any given time allows me to continue doing what I was put on this world to do. So, when a seemingly never ending stream of bad crap keeps coming your way...flip Karma the bird, put your head down and push through it, some how, some way it will all work out in the end! OK, philosophy class 101 is over. We will now resume our forum already in progress.

 

####, that was one of the best posts I've ever read. I am one of those people without much of a sense of humor and tend to take things too personally but I hope to develop an attitude more like yours. What you said is so motivating and really puts things in perspective.

 

My best full calendar month thus far has been 9975. Yippee.

Good news is they just replaced my in-cab portion of my QC unit...took 10 minutes.


Now I've been waiting two hours for a load....


BTW...not a good day for at least one Crete driver. Saw one on its side around Avoca, IA headed EB this morning. They were off-loading the freight into another Crete on the shoulder. Don't know anything further about it....

 

looked it up and saw that accident happened yesterday about 4:30. Said it was still under investigation- cause unknown. Driver was taken via helicopter to the hospital with critical injuries. In the pic the truck looks like a blue prostar.

 

I got out of New Era, MI (a brief pause for all the where the ----- is New Era, MI comments). It's north of Muskegon. Turns out it was a drop and hook at this small 2 receiving dock canning plant. Put me at 2795 for the week, and I got my service done on the way. Had to wait a little while, not too long, but I got a pplan that picks up in Stanwood, MI headed for the Harrisonville Wally for Monday at any time. 789 mile weekend is the worst weekend I've had in a while, but it delivers into a normally decent freight area, and it'll give me a chance to balance my logbook out a bit. I asked if there was anything that picked up earlier, and my A/M said we better take what we can, they were 19 loads short for MI...so I didn't argue, just not a lot of parking up here...kinda like New England w/o the snippy attitude and funny accent.(yes, I'm a southern boy making fun of their way of talking...at least we don't "paak da cah" like they do in "bosstun")

And now for the winter season prediction from the Snackbar Weather Center. I predict that this will be a rather snowy and cold winter for many parts of the traveled area of this company. I'm 50 or so miles north of Grand Rapids, and it barely make it to 60 degrees, and been raining hard all day. Yesterday I stopped west of Lansing, and it only made it into the low 60's and off and on rain most of the day.

 

I was at the J in Lansing Wednesday evening.

Just got a load offer...repower a load going to PA for Tuesday at 0700. 1330 miles. Great!

Except I"m supposed to be home in SC on the 14th. 15th at the very latest. Geez....

 

I am here at Lincoln on my second day of truck being in the shop. Driver came out of the main building complaining they just fired him. He said he was tired and pulled over on the shoulder, didn't know it had been raining and his truck rolled over. Said he was life flighted to hospital. I told him he did not look like he was just air evaced to a hospital and he told me he walked out of the hospital etc. I don't know if that the same driver but the story sounds similar. I did mention to him that most companies will fire you for rolling a truck whatever the reason. Hindsight being 20/20, he should have went to the next exit or preferably a rest area or truck stop I guess. I see his side of the story tho, you pull over because your tired and the soft shoulder or whatever rolls the truck. There may be more to it and he did not tell all of the story.