Day by day adventures of a new solo OTR driver

Great story DFO, I enjoyed every word, you should try writing a book. I am thinking of applying for a tanker job with Sdr,co but still not sure. God bless and stay safe

 

Well I'm in Atlanta taking a restart unless my DBL calls me tomorrow and pitches a fit over it. I have 4 hours left on my 70, regain nothing tomorrow, and only 7 hours regained the day after tomorrow... so I don't think it should be a problem. With such a crappy start to the week I'm actually very surprised I managed to almost completely burn up a 70. Added up all the driven (not paid, unfortunately) miles for the week and they totaled 2800. Not great but... more than I was expecting. According to the shop truck will be done tomorrow afternoon including fixing the cooling issue, fixing the PS reservoir hose that is still leaking and the PM. Its the Atlanta shop though, so the truck will probably go into the bay a Cascadia and come out the other side a Century with 900,000 miles, a sagging bumper, 8 mismatched drive tires and no compression on one cylinder.

DBL didn't want to route me through Charlotte on the way to Savannah because of out of route, so I brought that load down towards GA yesterday and delivered it this morning. Had to pull over once and dump in some more water. Then got a load out of there up to Atlanta today... had to stop and add water twice, luckily I was on top of it though and caught it before I had to stop on the side of the highway again.

The best part of today was waiting for the shuttle to the hotel and sitting and listening to the students... one of them was whining about the trip planning class, loudly stating "I HAVE A GPS, MAN ALL I GOTTA DO IS PUNCH IN THAT ADDRESS AND GO". -- Oh what a rude awakening you are in for, buddy.

Time to order a pizza.

 

Hope you orderd extra toppings.
You have earned them.

Great read,Diesel.

 

Been out for seven days since my time off. I have driven an average of 470 miles each day and worked 8 1/2 hrs each day. I have about 12 hours left for my eighth day tomorrow, then just gonna keep on rolling on my recap hours, i hope. We'll see how it goes.

 

Still sitting here in Atlanta... every day I keep getting told my truck will be ready the next day. Wake up, call in, get told it will probably be ready in the afternoon, check out of the motel, sit around the Atlanta "OC" through the afternoon, go to the shop, ask about how its coming again, get told tomorrow, wait an hour and a half for them to work out the hotel payment... rinse and repeat. This is why I hate dealing with the shop in Atlanta. Maybe I'll get moving tomorrow???

 

So, Schneider covers the hotel cost, but you lose all of that $ waiting around for the truck to get fixed?

 

I get breakdown pay which I believe is 65-75 a day... its not much.

 

that sucks man, hope they are able to get you going soon! I hate being stuck in a hotel let alone not making money!

 

That sucks man. I got stuck in Broussard LA for four days with my truck at Detroit. Finally had to get a different truck.

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I'll take the breakdown pay and wait for my truck to get fixed unless it gets real bad... since I stay out a minimum of 3 weeks I have my truck loaded up with so much crap... lol