I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

Thus endeth my time here.

 

I've got an offer from an old friend at another company. I took her up on it before I quit here. Still OTR dry van, mostly east of 35, no NYC and very little New England.

They do not train and do not hire inexperienced drivers. And their equipment is better.

I'll have to get my tanker endorsement and want to get my hazmat back (pays 2 cents more on all miles).

As to the freight issue; well, we're all gonna have tough times if the Mafia end up on Capitol Hill.

 

Tired now. More writing tomorrow or Friday, I promise.

 

Same here. This company used to be that way. Now it's like they got bought out by Celadon and didn't tell anyone.

The micro management, the lectures on how to do my job when they aren't doing their own (what's with the 62mph dispatches all last weekend guys?), the equipment problems, the expectation for me to cover the company's collective ### while risking my own, the talk about changing my elogs to make me legal, the open threat I received last week (run your clock all the way out every day or you'll have trouble getting miles), the getting jacked around by the shop, the lack of communication between operations and safety, their refusal to use the Qualcomm to communicate-- I'm a professional and expect my company to be at least as good at this as I am.

They're bleeding drivers, experienced ones. It's happened in the last couple of weeks. But that's fine; they've got a fresh crop of students coming out of their school (unaffiliated with them but owned by the same guy, wink wink) every week who'll do the job cheaper.