Heading For Little Rock! Maverick

Several drivers have given me that advice. It is a useful tool, but I am going to choose when it is useful!

 

I will be heading out tomorrow morning around 7 est. Hope you all have a wonderful Easter!
God Bless!

Jim

 

That was my trainer. The only thing you have to watch on him is that he gets impatient. Hopefully he learned some from having me...I was his first.
He knows alot....but also has a major gas issue!

 

Yesterday I had three drops. Each time I had to untarp and then retarp.
At the second last drop there were so many piles of pallets that I could not make it through to pull in. I got out and reloacted two piles but the last pile was banded together and I had to have them move it with a fork lift. After I dropped the shinny bar at the last drop, I was sitting in the truck cooling off. This old guy walks up to the truck and yells.."Move it on down the road...I am sick of listening to it. ( I had it only running for about 5 minutes) I told him I could shut it off. He says "Good, there is a three minute law in this state. I said Sorry Sir, but I was not aware of it.
I then headed down to my favorite backing place in Fredrick Maryland.
I put it in the hole with only two pull ups! I was pretty proud of myself.
By the time my shingles were tarped, I was out of time and had to spend the night there.
TMC has a drop yard there. I watched two of their trucks run into trailers. I guess it can happen to anyone.
I was not able to make my delivery time. There was an accident on I 70 near cambridge Ohio. A semi rolled over.
So I am sitting here just north of cincinnati and will unload when they open tomorrow at 8:00 AM
Hope eveyone is well! God Bless!

 

Here is the reality of flatbeed trucking. You work your a_ _ off.
There is none of this just take your time driving at an easy 55 because the loads are figured at 48 mph...You rush to where you are going....you wait. Then you rush to go to the next place....then you rush to get to a truck stop or rest area before your time runs out.
That is why so many people get out after they get into it. It is not what the recruiters and the posters and the tv ads tell you. It is a hard, rewarding job that you have to hustle hustle hustle!
That is the truth as I know it after being on the road for a month!
God Bless!