Greater omaha express ..thread 2.

My advice, be patient the first months
Sometimes there will be not your favorite load and you will have a week with less miles.
When I'm out of sync, they try to get me moving, my main problem is to get back to the yard on a Thursday to reset my hrs. Worked pretty good for a while, but the last months I often was back on a Friday and I had to run on recap hrs, I don't like that. This trip I think I will not have enough hrs to be back on Thursday.

My trailer wasn't loaded this morning and fortunately I only had to wait about 1 hour. Scaled and was 360 lbs too heavy, not a problem with the APU exemption. Will have to enter Cali with a bit more than a half fuel tank to be legal. So I started my trip later and will be probably a bit late for my first appointment.

 

There are a few things I'm not happy with too
As I always said, it's not perfect here, but better than most companies.
Made 1415 miles in exactly 21 driving hrs, that's an average speed of 67.38 mph, not bad thru the Rockies on I-80 with 80000 lbs
And my Volvo has only 425 HP

 

Do the wings on that tractor retract when you get down below 50 miles an hour?

 

We don't have wings, neither on the tractors nor on the trailers
It was just perfect the last two days, no delays and most of the CR England and SWIFT stayed on the right lane
And downhill I go the speed limit

 

Sounds like they are a decent company, atleast so far.

I'm also an Omaha local who will be on the hunt very soon for a new job. I may look into them when the hunt gets serious.

 

It's good to hear about a company that wants to take care of their drivers, can't say that about a lot of them.