Finally at melton

Not gonna lie,the snow makes me nervous.i am from so cal so we don't have real weather.melton policy is shut it down in snow.i feel like that is not always practical or needed,so I just put my big boy pants on and drive..the way I gauge whether to drive or park is if I see nice owner op rigs rolling I figure it's safe for me.if only flip flop Mafia is rolling I figure it's time to park.my ego is not big enough to make me drive if it's truly unsafe.but I think of all the northern drivers doing it.i just look way down the road to slow early trying not to use brakes at all.and try to never come to a full stop.oll

 

No exciting updates,just running what I think is hard.taking a week off on the 17th.it will be my first home time since I started.i had a load to perris in Nov so I stopped by the house for the night.it will be nice to get back in so cal for a bit to thaw my bones out.seems like I spend a lot of time in snow country.had my first real mistake while driving.i was driving to my pickup location and my fuel stop came on my tablet,so I pulled into a parking lot to input into gps.parking lot was covered in ice potholes up to 5 inches deep .my front steer dropped into a pothole and I couldn't get traction to get out.i put snow cables and tire chains on and even laid load chains down but couldn't get traction.had to make the call of shame to dispatch to get tow truck.took him about a minute to winch me out.noboody has chastised me about it yet.i hate that it happened and have been flogging myself about it, all the snow and ice I have driven and I get stuck in a parking lot lot!The 90 day fuel bonus came out and I am getting 985.so that's a pleasant surprise.its the first cycle for me.

 

Just reached 6 month mark.hurray.no exciting updates,just running miles.running a oversized right now.12 wide.kinda weird seeing your load over the k rails in construction zones.the hauling them is the easy part.i hate having to follow the permit route.my Oklahoma route had 30 different lines of directions.. Missouri only had 3.basically go north and exit into iowa.currently 2nd in fleet and 12th in company..lots of guys say the scorecards don't matter but I like them.even though I feel like I am a bumbling fool out here it reassures me I am doing ok..it's kind of hard to measure your growth as a new driver since we are by ourselves.i know I am not really the 12 best driver in Co but I at least know I am not the worst..to paraphrase Ricky Bobby,if your not first your last..someone told me I can take a pic of permit route and run it thru chat gpt and it will give me a Google map route.going to try it after I drop this load