Indian River

Ummm, cool, well I'll have to drive through them sometime, there's no where around it, I'm not looking forward to them though lol. I'm surprised I didn't get snow the three times I went to PA and the one time I went to Maine, well, I did when I went through New York, but not in Maine. I guess I went to PA in the summer, beautiful state, delivered loads to the Amish, nice folks.

 

True.

 

Winter mountain driving is a whole other beast in the mountains in the eastern part of the US. At least out west they take better care of the roads most of the time.

You’ll experience some good winter driving if you come to either NoDak or our southern neighbor, or better yet go to Manitoba and get caught in a storm there.

With us it’s mostly the wind that’ll get you, with the plains and blowing snow. The western mountains are a little easier imo, to drive in the winter. The states take better care and make you chain especially Colorado.

84 in Oregon is a good place to learn winter mountain driving. Learn to chain, and you’ll be gold.

 

Back in 2012 I drove a tri axle water truck in PA, 5,000 gallon smooth bore. I did well services providing fresh water to the drill rigs, coming off of a site one Saturday morning I was creeping my way to route 40, it was snowing pretty good and the well road was very slick, I was doing no more than 5 mph as I approached the hard road, there was a little hill as I approached the intersection, I probably still had 2,000 gallons in the tank, when the surge came back to the front it broke me loose and pushed me in to the road, thank god no one was coming. I’m no tanker expert by any means, but I say this to impress on you what surge can and will do, even at low speeds.

 

####, I'm in for a treat...

 

Noted.

 

I can say I technically put in 2.5 weeks notice that fell on my anniversary. I requested my two weeks of vacation upon departing and received my payroll notice saying they were paying it out Monday . That goes a long way in my book. I'll be heading out tomorrow or Monday morning to drop the truck off in Clovis.

 

Nice, so did they let you do your two-weeks?

 

Man, I forgot about truckersreport for a while there, let alone that thread I was going to create after 90 days at Caledonia. I've been running my little booty off so I guess I was too busy to post a new thread. Might as well wait until I've been here 6 months at this point. For now, I figured I'd drop back in this thread and say hi. I see @nextgentrucker has decided to go with Bynum, not a bad choice. From what I hear, they get similar runs to Indian River. Hopefully they're also paying you more than 48cpm.

This is just my two cents, but I think Indian River is experiencing reduced freight and would prefer to let some drivers quit and not replace them as a way of downsizing until their numbers pick up again. You gotta do what you gotta do to stay in business, so I don't hold it against them at all.

Caledonia Haulers is treating me well, sometimes I feel too well and I wonder if I deserve it... I have literally never waited between loads for more than a few hours with one exception. I waited about a day to pick up my next load after I made a delivery out in California once. Okay there is one other exception, but it wasn't Caledonia's fault.... I was sick with the stomach flu a couple months ago and didn't feel safe to drive, so I stayed at a Flying J somewhere in Ohio for 2 days straight.

I'm not gonna say it's every week, but I've had many weeks where I can get 3000 miles back to back 2-3 weeks in a row, easily. Lots of pump loads, sometimes more than one a week and for a while there I got a lot of short runs (500-600 miles, but sometimes deadheading 500-600 afterwards) but this month I've been running from the Midwest out to the PNW over and over and it's been great. Sorry for the slightly off topic, we can resume your regularly scheduled programming now.