Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Nothing fancy or exciting...Jerry Sparks will meet you at the front gate (by the gas pump and visitor parking) unless they changed it due to HR being up front now. But be prepared for the most laid back easy going orientation you will ever go thru. You will meet a bunch of people over the next few days...and have a bucket load of paperwork given to you during their presentation...but Jerry is a good ole' Texas gent, very easy to talk to...unless you screw up your logs...

 

Gota love it. I don't deliver until 9am tomorrow, but backhaul called Lagrange to Waller. I haven't done a Waller in a while...glad to see we still do them.

 

good luck, i have had a rough week but compared to how smooth everything has gone so far anything might b a rough week lol i would take a notebook and write down things that may make it easier when u get goin, things u may forget when u get out of orientation.

 

hell i just learned we are not supposed to have anything on the back of the cab when a driver seen my snow shovel back there, so much for putting my bike there this summer, unless anyone knows different

 

That driver told you the truth.

 

I found out the hard way too. No one said a word about it in orientation. I had my non-folding push broom there for months...someone saw it during a routine lot check and Tony told me to put it away. It's all part of the zero liability policy. Which, I think, is part of the reason we don't have load lock racks anywhere on our trucks.(for those drivers who don't know, a push broom is something you use to push all that crap in the trailer into a pile so you can use a thing called a dust pan to scoop it up and throw it away...and the push broom has two ends, the part with the bristles is the part that pushes the dirt and crap.)

 

...sorry...I couldn't resist. I know every company has the dirty trailer issue...but the last trailer I had I scooped 3 overflowing dustpans of crap out of...more than a wally bag would've held. Thankfully I was at a truckstop that had open trash cans so I just pulled one over and dumped it in. I'd be embarrassed to drop a trailer like that at one of our drop/hook customers

 

SS, dirty trailers are a sore spot with me as well.

 

Day one in the books. 2 more days to go. Got assigned my truck today. Pretty happy with it. So far so good!!

 

It's all down hill from here...just don't use your jake brake...it's a quiet zone