ESTES Express (5 Year Review)

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  1. Jul 27, 2026 #6871
    KaoMinerva

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    But I'm not. Left with a sleeper truck ended up with a single axle. Truck went down at the hotel in Houston. They refused to give me any truck worth anything.
     

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  3. Jul 29, 2026 #6872
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    Gonna tell you new guys this right now. You come to west Houston terminal, you need to be ready to wait. I waited 19 hours off duty Monday night going into Tuesday. I’m at about 13+ hours now. Big money coming here but you will WAIT trying to leave. West Houston is the bad terminal with these new central dispatchers.
     
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  4. Jul 30, 2026 #6873
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    That’s like the Marietta hub for us, I call it the black hole.
     
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  5. Jul 30, 2026 #6874
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    It's ridiculous man we need to get paid by the hour as well
     
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  7. Jul 30, 2026 #6875
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    Don’t you run a fair bit of mileage yourself?

    I grabbed a full wagon worth of pickups today at a town further away than 4 other terminals. :cool:
     
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  8. Jul 30, 2026 #6876
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    Yes. It’s a full route spread out far. I get about 60-65 hours a week because I’m coming in early. If I just do my route only I can get 50-58 steady.
     
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  9. Jul 30, 2026 #6877
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    It worked for me for thirty years as a Teamster union tanker driver.
     
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  10. Aug 2, 2026 #6878
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    Nice. Did you retire in good shape?
     
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  11. Aug 2, 2026 #6879
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    Yes. I retired at 60 in 2024. My wife retired at 58 in 2020 from the Teamsters as well. She did her 30 years in the office at Sysco foods.
     
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  12. Aug 2, 2026 #6880
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    Oh man that sounds lovely. How are you enjoying retirement.
     
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