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<p>[QUOTE="flyingmusician, post: 2068224, member: 61515"]lol just sent you a pm......</p><p> </p><p>been running hard and resting little.....usually i'm just barely getting my 10 in and rolling again.....that #### i-phone i've got is a pain in the ### to try and post anything online with.....working on getting the laptop going but i've got other stuff to get for the truck first</p><p> </p><p>I finally got my truck.....and dammed 2012 volvo with elogs......not exactly what I wanted and the only glitch so far......i sat for 4 days last week waiting to get the truck and then only got one load in before the weekend.......I would have stayed out but already had plans to go out of town for the weekend that were made months ago so I couldn't really bail on them......so i ran out friday morning to georgia and back and ended up with minimum miles payment for the week which kinda sucked but my DM made sure to get me rolling with something as soon as I got the truck so i didn't end up broke for the week.....so far he's been pretty good to work with and we sat down and talked before I went out and he knows what I expect from him</p><p> </p><p>other than that, run hard the first week out....up to new york, across new york, down to georgia and then back up to nc in 4 days......t-called a load this morning that i'm staying on and only getting a 34 this week before i go back out late saturday night for michigan.......</p><p> </p><p>sucks to have a slow truck but seems like the freight is there.....i haven't sat more than 30 minutes waiting for a load and generally the pickup is close to where I am and the miles are long on the load.</p><p> </p><p>getting into the process of outfitting the truck now.....got a tv, fridge and microwave just have to get the inverter installed and then it will be alot more bearable lol</p><p> </p><p>really gotta shake my head at those idiots in the truckstops lol.....######## pulling in and blocking the way out and/or blocking you in...not backing all the way into a spot so their tractor is sticking so far out into the lane you can't pull out far enough to get out of your own spot....idiots......knowing you got there first and are going to have to leave before them lol....####### supertruckers....i know they're more important than everyone else but geez....wilco in troutman last week and not only did some ####### park in the lane going out, but another dummy pulled in right beside him and parked, completely blocked the only way out and the when he went to leave his truck wouldn't start.....that was alot of fun trying to get out of that one.....and i was parked on an end spot that looked like a really good one to get of the lot when i had to roll at 2am......ended up going to wrong way over the scales (the only thing in the place that wasn't blocked lol) and going out the entrance.....seems like every day I'm seeing why we truckers have such a bad name nowadays....the stupidity and disrespect of others is rampant.....thankfully alot of our customers allow overnight parking lol.....i'm a night owl and trying to keep thing on a schedule so that i'm running at night or in the wee hours of the morning.....seems like the more professional guys/gals are on the road then and the idiots are out in the daylight.....got lucky last night and woke up and had epes on either side of me in the rest area.....i looked at it before i laid down knowing it was going to be a ##### to get out of but it was the only spot and that ###### box kept telling me "you have zero hours and 15 minutes of drive time remaining" lol i could just throw that ####### elog out the window already......but being epes guys, they had enough sense to park far enough away on either side that I had plenty of room to get out when 3am came and it was time to roll.....</p><p> </p><p>so far so good though....i'm enjoying the miles and meeting a bunch of good people so far.....just hate that elog....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="flyingmusician, post: 2068224, member: 61515"]lol just sent you a pm...... been running hard and resting little.....usually i'm just barely getting my 10 in and rolling again.....that #### i-phone i've got is a pain in the ### to try and post anything online with.....working on getting the laptop going but i've got other stuff to get for the truck first I finally got my truck.....and dammed 2012 volvo with elogs......not exactly what I wanted and the only glitch so far......i sat for 4 days last week waiting to get the truck and then only got one load in before the weekend.......I would have stayed out but already had plans to go out of town for the weekend that were made months ago so I couldn't really bail on them......so i ran out friday morning to georgia and back and ended up with minimum miles payment for the week which kinda sucked but my DM made sure to get me rolling with something as soon as I got the truck so i didn't end up broke for the week.....so far he's been pretty good to work with and we sat down and talked before I went out and he knows what I expect from him other than that, run hard the first week out....up to new york, across new york, down to georgia and then back up to nc in 4 days......t-called a load this morning that i'm staying on and only getting a 34 this week before i go back out late saturday night for michigan....... sucks to have a slow truck but seems like the freight is there.....i haven't sat more than 30 minutes waiting for a load and generally the pickup is close to where I am and the miles are long on the load. getting into the process of outfitting the truck now.....got a tv, fridge and microwave just have to get the inverter installed and then it will be alot more bearable lol really gotta shake my head at those idiots in the truckstops lol.....######## pulling in and blocking the way out and/or blocking you in...not backing all the way into a spot so their tractor is sticking so far out into the lane you can't pull out far enough to get out of your own spot....idiots......knowing you got there first and are going to have to leave before them lol....####### supertruckers....i know they're more important than everyone else but geez....wilco in troutman last week and not only did some ####### park in the lane going out, but another dummy pulled in right beside him and parked, completely blocked the only way out and the when he went to leave his truck wouldn't start.....that was alot of fun trying to get out of that one.....and i was parked on an end spot that looked like a really good one to get of the lot when i had to roll at 2am......ended up going to wrong way over the scales (the only thing in the place that wasn't blocked lol) and going out the entrance.....seems like every day I'm seeing why we truckers have such a bad name nowadays....the stupidity and disrespect of others is rampant.....thankfully alot of our customers allow overnight parking lol.....i'm a night owl and trying to keep thing on a schedule so that i'm running at night or in the wee hours of the morning.....seems like the more professional guys/gals are on the road then and the idiots are out in the daylight.....got lucky last night and woke up and had epes on either side of me in the rest area.....i looked at it before i laid down knowing it was going to be a ##### to get out of but it was the only spot and that ###### box kept telling me "you have zero hours and 15 minutes of drive time remaining" lol i could just throw that ####### elog out the window already......but being epes guys, they had enough sense to park far enough away on either side that I had plenty of room to get out when 3am came and it was time to roll..... so far so good though....i'm enjoying the miles and meeting a bunch of good people so far.....just hate that elog....[/QUOTE]
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