Help! In over my head!

just thought id bump this to see if he is still alive or not. kinda curious if he made it up there or not or even went.

 

Your going to pull an Oversize load up to Chicago and you've never driven a manual truck??? not to mention a long-hood!!!!

YIKES!!!! Hope it all goes well, but I can see something not working out in your favor.

 

SHC, I was tempted to ask the same thing. Hope he's alright, but... something WILL go wrong. Sure hope it doesn't.

 

I hop the next post we here from is ,"back in the yard, all went better then expected"

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Dittos, .......................

 

Chicago underpass clearance chart.

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/bridge/general/PostedClearances072312.pdf

Chicago Truck Routing hot line. (talk to a real person who will tell you the best way to get around)
1-312-746-8630

Mikeeee

 

Thanks people, for your help, advice and concern. I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for you professional drivers. I made it back alive and without major incidents. I did however quit. I drove 3000 miles in 3 days, 3 deliveries. I was told to keep driving when I knew darn well I was illegal. I slept maybe 3-4 hours a night and did 3 round trips of the most stress filled 3 days of my life. I ground alot of gears and prayed the whole time. 1 trip to chicago, 1 to elkhorn, Wisconsin and 1 to Milwaukee. All the scales were closed along the way other than 1 and I had a green light to just go through. If they had pulled me in i would have been cooked. This just isn't for me and I told them when I got back from the last run I was done and handed them the keys. I got pretty good at up shifting but down shifting got me in some very rough spots. I had to pull to the shoulder several times to just start over in 1st. I clipped some curbs the 1st day out and also had trouble getting into a fuel island and another driver saw I was in trouble and helped me out. I learned alot. You do NOT just get in one of these rigs and drive. I'm at a loss as to what I'm going to do now but I know that if I kept doing what they were asking me to do I'd eventually get myself killed or worse, kill someone else. Just thought I should update this and thank everyone for the prayers, encouragement and support. Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart and again, I can't emphasize enough the respect I have for you drivers. I'll start looking for work again on Monday. God bless ya all!

 

Quit? Good choice with that company running you to the ground. Hope you get a better job soon, I hear Old Domain is a good company in need of locals. Plus they have a nice train program and I believe a few team driver O/O's.

 

Honey, I am very proud of you. It takes lots of guts to be a rookie out here with training. Since you had never driven a stick shift or anything as big as this, you did fantastic, if you only hit a couple of curbs. I will pray that you get a great job, that will train you properly, cause since you succeeded at this, with help, you would be able to do it all in time. Linda

 

From what I hear, Schnieder does do that some local with good trainers.