I hate Peoplenet, where are you parked and recipes thread

oh yeeesss... many were of such a closer look.....

 

Another dollar and fifty cents and I'll have enough extra credit points for a coffee!

Oh, I never said you were the only contributor. But of those who did post, you had the most.

Though...I gotta say. The girl with the freckles and red hair? I think she had a drink in her hand.. I wouldn't mind having a few drinks of...err...with her.

If, you know, I wasn't already taken.

I'll still take real women over models. I actually stand a chance with real women.

We need spoiler tags in this forum or something... Let's you hide text or a photo until it's clicked on...

 

Yes it's a little slow for us too.
But our iso tanker guys are pretty busy.
I don't like the rail yards but I'll do them when we're slow

 

Should have thrown her for a loop and said "Newfoundland time".

 

Alright...I'm going to get daring.

Everybody, for the most part, has either put a picture of themselves or their significant other up.

If she gets mad at me then I'll just ask a mod to take it down...



First time she and I ever met, I took her to the ocean. (Alberta is landlocked.). So she got to see the ocean for the first time.

I learned she'd also never scaled a lighthouse, so this was taken atop Tybee Island lighthouse in ga.

...I also learned she was scared of heights. She later told me that she was scared senseless up top even with the bars surrounding us. When I asked her why she never said anything... "You were so excited to show me. How could I say no? Plus you'd done it before, figured I could too." (I'm also scared of heights, but not in the same way she is.)

And just as a bonus...digging around in old photographs...



That'd be my mother's dog. That was taken 24 hours after the puppies around her were born.

On topic!!

Parked in Panama City at their mall... Hopefully I can be a little lax about coming back, I need a suit for the cruise and a few other things.

Enjoyed the drive down, rolled down my window and enjoyed a 62 degree breeze blowing through the cab...



Plus, how can you not like that drive?? Cool air, empty road, and dotted with small towns and so on. I love these drives...

 

At the customer 3 hrs early. What a joke. It's so tight in here, you have to grease up the fenders to move around. Well, maybe not THAT tight. But not far off. PITB!!!!!!

 

I began looking into driving when I was 21 as there was a trucking school down the road from my apartment. Wouldn't have qualified because in 2007 most places required 23-25 in age to consider hiring.

Jump to 2010 and I looked again, but now I was an office puke unsure if "living on the road" was for me.

Fast forward to 2013 and as I approached my 26th birthday I asked myself if unloading trucks for Walmart was really what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

One night while waiting for a manager to unlock the dock door I just asked the delivering swift driver how he was paid, per mile, per hour, per delivery or what?

He grudgingly told me he was paid 25 cpm and was mad because he was gonna be out of hours and have to sleep at the store after we were done unloading him.

Now at the time I had no idea if 25 cpm was good bad or anything. But when I got home I looked a the map and saw the mileage from Los Lunas, NM to Cortez Co round-trip (it's like 550 mi for those playing along) and then multiplied by his rate of pay and came to a really nice number ($137) compared to my paltry $64 per day unloading for Walmart.

Ironically I found it insane that he would be upset about making that much (assumed) money per day. Today nearly 3 years later I'd laugh at you if you told me that's what you'd pay me to drive a truck. Oh how we grow and change haha.

Anyway shortly after all that I found this forum, started following the swift training thread by @DocWatson, did a ton of research, finally ended up at Central refrigerated in salt lake for training and the rest is history.

As an aside: Seven months after doing otr with central I took a local job back in cortez delivering soda. Bumped the same docks that I used to unload at and (unfortunately) I still had to unload the #### product myself! Haha.

Stay safe out there.

unloader

 

Funny how things come full circle.

It'd be even better if another dock worker followed a similar route eh?

 

yep, its a pain in the rear there

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