FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

I'm scheduled to be back in town sometime next Thursday and then I'll be home through the weekend.

 

I-40 through NM and AZ are the pits. I'm genuinely surprised I made it both ways without something breaking on my old truck. Hit a pothole right after a bridge so hard I swore I broke something. Pretty sure the guy in front of me did as he immediately pulled over with something leaking under his truck. That stretch of highway is easily the worst slab of asphalt I have driven on. Makes I-70 in Indiana seem great in comparison.

 

Investors and mega carriers are gung-ho for autonomous trucks yet our infrastructure alone will make that a lost cause. In any case, some of these states needs to pull their heads out of their ##### and fix their roads. We are expected to keep our rigs in good shape, state road departments should be held to the same standards.

 

All of the mega carriers combined don't make up much more than 1/4 of the industry. I-70 in Indiana is NOTHING compared to how bad it used to be. Once upon a time, the stretch from Indy to Ohio would rearrange your entire sleeper. EVERY SINGLE BRIDGE felt like hitting a curb squarely at 60mph.

 

Driving a Freightshaker doesn't help on some of these roads. I drive for 10 hours and find out a tornado went through my sleeper. Not to mention the broom I bought somewhere in California went AWOL not to be seen again.

 

Any ideas where they'll send me after I drop my pet food in Bethel? I'm working on recaps and I would've burned 5 hours by the time I make my drop, so they won't be able to send me too far out of the way.