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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;flyingmusician, post: 2083961, member: 61515&quot;]not sure what the local guys get but if i remember correctly it&#039;s an hourly rate. prehaps some of the older hands on here can chime in on this one and let you know.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>was going to wait and go out monday but dispatch called saying they had stuff backed up on the yard so i&#039;m leaving out again tonight for pennsylvainia......not thrilled with the prospect of being up there to start the week because I have that old feeling that I&#039;m going to run the northeast at least first part of the week but by getting that 450+ in by cutoff i&#039;ll do just over 3000 miles for the pay period.....and that&#039;s for only 5 1/2 days out.....can&#039;t say they aren&#039;t running me and I like it that way.....got 3 last week over 800 miles back to back and got some really good milage days in because I was able to run all day and i&#039;m getting better at learning how to run that elog down to the last few minutes and still find parking......by putting myself on a night-time schedule i&#039;m seeing less traffic, able to stay moving and not having any problems finding parking early to mid-morning by the time that ##### q/c starts saying &quot;you have zero hours and 30 minutes of drive time remaining&quot; &quot;you have zero hours and 15 minutes of drive time remaining&quot; lol......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>pretty good planning last week on someone&#039;s part because I ended up with only 4 hours left on my 70 by the time I got in friday night.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>have to say i saw the worst roads i&#039;ve ever been on last week.....Gary, Indiana.......not too bad to manuever in considering where it is but ####......almost jarred the teeth out of my head the roads are in such bad shape....and what a dismal place.....can&#039;t imagine having to live there.....some of the biggest ######## i&#039;ve had to deliver to as well but i just played the politician and put on the nice face and the smile and got in and out lol.....for a born and bred country boy like me i guess i can see where having to live in around or near the big city like that would make me have a bad attitude too lol......same thing going into michigan last week with the roads....and grand rapids wasn&#039;t as forgiving as gary as far as room to manuever....the little road going into the consignee might as well had been the tail of the dragon lol at least it was only about 1/2 mile long but that was a loooonnnggg 1/2 mile coming down and around and around and down that hill to get to the consignee and then back out of there.....any of you that have been there know where i&#039;m talking about....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>finally got my laptop setup so we&#039;ll see how it goes getting internet access on the road.....tv is mounted and working just have to get a better antenna after having to build a half-assed stand to mount it to inside the volvo.....but got it mounted now and spring loaded the mounts so it won&#039;t jar the tv to death on some of these roads.....of course, when i was buying things for the truck i did so with the assumption i&#039;d get one of those 30 or so brand new cascadias sitting on the yard with the plastic still on the seats and got a 24&#039; flat screen which would work great in the f/l but just wasn&#039;t happening in the vulva....but got it mounted now at the end of the bed against the wall and it sure came out alot better than having a tiny 13&quot; stuck up in that cabinet lol......i had to completely rethink how i was going to setup the inside of the truck once i ended up with the volvo.....but, i think i&#039;ve got it livable now.....cut some shelves for the non-existent storage space in the thing and just about good to go now.....slowly making friends with it and got the rpm range finally figured out for the shifts and we&#039;re getting along just fine now</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>so far nothing but positives to report.....good miles, very little waiting time between loads and home every weekend as advertised.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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