EPES TRANSPORT-Greensboro, NC

Orangeburg is about 45 - 50 miles from me, I have been going to school at Orangeburg Calhoun Tech for the last 5 weeks. As we are driving around we see Epes day cabs around Orangeburg all day. We did night drives last week, stopped at Henry's truck stop in O'burg and saw two Epes trucks parked for the night. Wasn't able to see / talk to the drivers. Nowadays everybody has a walmart within a quarter of a mile from where they live. Probably wouldn't hurt to go ahead and start asking huh? Didn't I read that during my driver training I will be doing all the driving? That will be OJT at it's best! Wish I were starting today....

 

WHATEVER!!! you seem like the type that would argue with a stone wall and still think you won.

 

Yeah you're probably right. I would win.

For someone who "didnt want to argue" you just can't leave it the #### alone, can you?

I guess at the end of the day all I can ever aspire to be is a supertrucker like you when I grow up.

But, I'm not going to let you highjack this thread which is one about one of the very few good companies out there. Let's don't forget why you opened your mouth in the first place. You go right on ahead running too many hours and whining about how your company is making you do it. But do it somewhere else.

I'll continue operating safely, legally, in my brand new truck and home every weekend and living a very comfortable lifestyle doing it.

 

I'll continue operating safely, legally, in my brand new truck and home every weekend and living a very comfortable lifestyle doing it.[/QUOTE]

So you still like working for Epes? I hope to get started in orientation up there on Sunday. I can't wait!!

 

well I'm so very ########## proud of you there new breed. again you just made my point. you have no Idea what a good trucking company is.I'm sure Epes is a good company.But you haven't even been driving six months .what the hell do you know what a good trucking company is?you just keep on proving my point every time you say something.you can't simply understand the point I'm trying to make to you can you?I'll put it as elementary for you as I can simply put it. you are still wet behind the ears.(as far as driving a truck). you have no Idea what you are talking about.how can somebody come on here that has not even been driving six months get on here and talk about running legal and doing it right to people that have 5 ,10, 20 years or more out here on the road.when you have no idea what it is really like.that is all I am trying to explain to your simple little mind. but I guess because you are so smart and an airplane pilot and was a manager of this ,and was in charge of that,you know better than me or anyone else out here with my experience or more do. so I guess I'll let you win this argument .keep on running legal and doing it right and being the poster child for doing it exactly by the book.your Idea's as far as it's my license.and it's my decision whether to drive illegally or not and not letting the company push me and so on and so on are spot on.I never disagreed with you on that.I made one simple point,and that was you have no idea what it is really like out here.you have never had to make a quick decision in a situation that you meaning (the driver) has no control over out here. you have your babysitter (qualcomm) that does that for you.if you are in the bronx or brooklyn at 17:00 on a fri. and you only have an hour to find a place to park because the shipper held you at the dock for 5 or six hours and you know your not going to be able to get parked B4 your time runs out all you have to do is get on your little babysitter there and let dispatch know of your situation and he is going to hold your hand and this is what he is going to tell you."go ahead and find the nearest safe place to park as soon as you can. I understand your situation don't sweat it."you can plan your trip, your day all you want. situations happen out here sometimes that are beyond your control.and sometimes you have to bite the bullet and do what you have to do.so I say AGAIN! get you some more experience out here 2-5 years and go to work for at least one other company that has a different type of operation, oversize loads, flat, bedding,anything besides just opening a set of doors and backing into a dock. and then maybe just maybe I'll give you permission to come on here and tell everyone else with a hell of alot more miles behind them then your couple of weeks out here ,how perfectly legal and by the book you do it.again you assumed I run more then my legal 11 hours and whatever else you want to believe.I still get my 10 hour breaks I still don't run more than 11 hours without taking my 10 I just may not be able to log it exactly like I do it. because of schedules .but you won't never understand that because your babysitter makes that decision for you. By the way your right I can't just leave it alone.I refuse to let some greenhorn come on here and tell me or anyone else with more experience then you have how you do it by the book.my man you haven't even lived long enough (as far as being out on the road) to tell me anything.But again, you win because I won't reply to anything a else and I'm sure you'll get back on here and say something else and prove my point once again that you are talking about something you know very very little about.One more thing,I change my mind. I guess I do like to argue. LOL LOL LOL. have a good day oh great and mighty perfect trucker perhaps one day when I grow up I'll have a babysitter to tell me my every move.

 

How is there leasepurchase

 

J bird, I was looking in to the lease program. It
Looked good and was on waiting list and they talked
Me into becoming a trainer, if not prob would have
Bought one! Not going to train as a o/o (I would be
Paying repairs)! Ones they pick out are sweet deals.
Last company trucks to go in they inframed just so
The leasee would get 500 k engine wat! And 3 yr 300
On rest of drive line! So dl covered till last payment
With 1$ buyout. Pm me and we'll see if its a fit for U

 

Looking to come on board with EPES, just wondering what models are on hand and do they have APU's

 

well you really gotta love grocery warehouses huh? been sitting here 5 hours in the door while the elog tick tick ticks away on the 14 and have to be in norfolk in the morning from west jefferson

I have to say i've been rather taken aback by the number of messages i've gotten lately wanting to know where i've been......i'm still here....still running hard.....just took a little breather to turn down the blood pressure a little bit after the last exchanges i had with the know-it-all.....lol.....there's always one.....

let's just state for the record some previously undisclosed information so i won't be taken to task for being a rank amatuer again and won't have to put another know-it-all in their place and possibly let my mouth get me into trouble.....even as my information shows 0-1 year, i do have 5 years' experience in a previous life in the 80's and 90's......back when all you got was a cabover, 2 seats, a doghouse and a mattress lol.....while the regulatory climate certainly has gone downhill since those days, living in the truck certainly has gotten alot better....and since so much time has passed since i've been in the truck in this "new world" that the industry has become, that experience really doesn't translate into anything relevant with regard to today's issues other than knowing how to handle the truck and that's why the previous experience has been till now undisclosed.....

so now on with our (somewhat lol) regularly scheduled posts lol......

seen some really stupid #### over the last few weeks....but the miles are still there.....truck is running good.....and just about to roll over 90,000 miles in just under 8 months so not too bad i don't think and still running fairly steady even though the freight has obviously slowed a little due to the time of year.

saw a guy from one of the big reefer companies at a loves in alabama pull in to the fuel island and park there with his cow and just blovk the island and go inside and not even fuel......and they were very busy......as i was standing in line about number 10 for the over-worked girl at the counter, he's standing there at the coffee machine filling his cup, turning to watch the girl at the counter to see if she noticed him, sucking it down and filling it again......fill, watch her, repeat......5 times this guy sucked down a huge free cup of coffee all the while looking over his shoulder to see if anyone had noticed him.....then on cup number 6 finally strolls over to the counter and pays for THAT one....no telling what his woman was stuffing in her pockets back in the aisles lol......their truck was still blocking the fuel lane when i left abbout 25 minutes later....

same trip to alabama at the IP plant there in courtland.....you guys know the useless comapny we contract with there as a droplot so i wn't mention them by name to protect the #########......picked up the trailer and...their yard guy backed into something REALLY hard with it and left it there for me,loaded, with the latches hanging open at 90 degrees.....the latch receivers at the bottom were bent so bad that's as far as they would close.....and on friday....always on friday when i'm supposed to be headed home.....took 5 hours for road service to cut and heat and grind to finally get them closed.....and of course the shop wouldn't touch it since it was under load so i ended up having to use a 5lb hammer and 5ft crowbar to get the doors opened and closed for the next 4 days as i drug that one around.....i'll have to find the pics i took of it and get them on here

saw a guy in one of the yards had a hot chick riding with him.....of course he's more worried about her ### than what he should be doing and hops in, backs up to the trailer, hooks up the lines and proceeds to pull right out from under it......never checked the 5th wheel, and fortunately for him, never raised the landing gear either...so no harm no foul but i bet he doesn't just jump in and go for awhile lol.....of all the mistakes to make, that's the one i never will...even when i stop to fuel or at a rest area for a bathroom stop i look under there and make sure it's locked in tight....just part of a good pretrip that didn't get done in that case.....

sitting in west virginia at a pilot saw a guy come wheeling in wide open into a pull through spot with one guy one the end and the right and proceed to drag the right side of his trailer all the way into the back left corner of trailer on the right.....then back off of it and drive off like he's at daytona....with about 6 feet of the side of his trailer peeled open.....luckily, there were enough people watchers there at least 3 of them got it on video and were walking around it looking at it and i'm sure calling the guy's company to let them know what he just did and ran....

as for me.....things are going well.....had the volvo develop a mental illness in boston the week of christmas....spent 3 days down in the shop in a hotel there and when it came out of the shop got 150 miles down the road and started doing the same #### again.....ended up doing the whole trip back with all the lights and warnings going off and the engine in derate......47k in the box down 81 and 220 in derate is alot of fun lol......stop and do a regen, go 50 miles go into derate....stop and do a regen, go 50 miles go into drate.....all the way back....they got it back to volvo after i got in and put me in another truck for a couple weeks and when i got it back was good as new and haven't had any problems out of it since.....

and FINALLY the phone rings.....lol....load is ready after just over 5 1/2 hours in the door.......get my paperwork scale it out and see how far i can get towards norfolk in 6 hours before i have to listen to the babysitter tell me it's time to park.....

 

I just want to know if the trucks have APU's and inverters? Can anyone answer