Have to start somewhere

So I go to leave Sunday and I am driving out of Little Rock down I30 and I am in the center lane listening to the football game on the radio.When I realize I have two big trucks behind me I try to get over to the right lane but I have a four-wheeler matching me speed for speed and a car carrier moving down in that lane fast. The car goes past and the truck wont let me over then this yo-yo tries to take the front of my truck off with the back of his car carrier.I hit the brakes and he starts spewing ######## on the CB man there are times I wonder why I do this. Now granted I shouldn't of been in the center lane doing the speed limit but surely I didn't warrant that.

KJ thanks for the offer but I am a flat-bedder and I like it.I don't think I would like driving a van.As for maverick somebody I think it was gas-hauler in one of the other posts said that if you start with a company that hires a lot of students there are certain risks and that is why they use so many students.I now understand what he means.

I thought I had this sitting all day every Monday and not getting any miles to start the week beat. I get to the consignee Sunday night unload first thing when the gates open Monday morning and get on the board early.So I get on the board first thing just liker plan and they give me a multiple pick up load in Houston. I spend all day driving 75 miles around Houston picking up loads and get zero miles because I am already in Houston and that is all they recognize by the time I finish getting loaded it is 4 pm.I got three hours left I can drive which at rush hour will be how long it will take me to get out of Houston.

So I say screw that I will park at the truck stop at 4 pm while I can find a parking place. I scale out find a hole to back into shut the curtains and crawl in the bunk about three hours go by and I hear air-horns and I think what is going on. I look out the curtains and there is a chunky lot lizard doing a striptease on the back of a flatbed. I hate big city truck-stops.

I finish my 10 hour break and leave at 2 am to be in little rock for a 11 am appointment.I pull all that off without a hitch get to Little Rock still have three hours to drive.I get to the maverick yard and the consignee I just dropped off at is complaining because the shipper didn't put dunnage between the sheets of steel I just delivered.You see the shipper has a great big forklift and they load the steel in 5 plate bundles. The consignee has a little bitty forklift and has to unload sheet by sheet.I have multiple pickups so I couldnt use the 8 boards I have as dunnage. They never said a word to me when I dropped it off. So I spend the rest of the afternoon talking to safety the csr and my fleet-manager about this load and they tell me go home they will give me a load tomorrow. So much for great plans.

 

Sassytrucker I could of lived my whole life and not seen that.I am in a rest area just this side of oklahoma in texas.I am picking up a load in dallas at 8 am going to chattanoga to be delivered dec 27th so I guess I am headed for a few days off.will post more when I get home Later

 

So I am home for the holiday my truck is making another one of those noises again like someone threw a pair of shoes in the dryer.I am scheduled to leave out Wednesday hope I can. Because right now my miles are in the crapper I got a whopping 800 miles last week and a 289.00 check the week before so time are tight for Christmas will have to bank some when things pick up. I knew it would be bad I didn't think it would be this bad.

I spent all morning Monday sitting in the truck waiting for a load and at noon I decide to go to the truck-stop to grab a bite so when do they send me a time sensitive load you guessed it while I was at lunch.On the plus side I had a pickup of some generators from the air base here in little rock so it was cool to be on a military base again made me thinks of the days when I was younger.I also picked up from the docks in Houston last week I have never been on a real working dock before they scan your divers license before they let you in. I wanted to go to the edge and see the water but I didn't want to block traffic to satisfy my curiosity.

I am getting better at backing and just when I think I have it licked I melt down and cant hit the hole #### this is frustrating.So it is off to Chattanooga after Christmas then we will see what happens I have a 500 dollar bonus coming in February and a 1 cent a mile raise.

I almost forgot I got ran off the road in Dallas by another big truck that wandered in my lane it was 6 am and I was passing him and we where going into a curve and he lost track of his trailer and it kept coming over I ended up on the shoulder I have no idea how I didn't hit something I just stayed on the pedal and steered as slow and as straight as I could I knew he just drifted I don't think is was intentional but it happens.Guess thats about it hope you all have a merry Christmas I got to go fix the big screen in the living room all the people are blue and I cant afford a new one right now.

 

Well guys it has been real.I put my trailer in the ditch today.I was in Ft Wayne Ind making a turn on a slick narrow street.The next sound I hear is my trailer slammin into the ditch another tarp box destroyed.

So it is accident macro pictures from fifty angles a tow truck to pull my trailer out of the ditch a destroyed brake cannister and a flat tire.As my trailer is on it side not a single bar moved well I cant drive the darn thing but I can secure like nobodys buisness.

I am pretty sure maverick will can me hell I wouldnt hire me.The fact that my driving skills are deficent is a bitter pill to swallow.I always thought I was a good driver.So now I am stuck in Ft Wayne till monday it is bitter cold up here I dont know how you northern people live up here.I will keep this updated to the bitter end so you have a complete picture yall be safer then me Later