J&R Schugel Trucking

All is well my friend! I just have been in a funk lately and not really being social with anyone. I am still chugging away. Staying on a two week out and 2 - 3 days home for now. I am home right now for the night, have to head out at 5am to head down to Fort Lauderdale to deliver and then back here for a few days.

J&R Schugel recently started a pet policy, once I am able to get a pet in my truck I will start to stay out a little longer. It gets lonely on the road, I need a little companionship while on the road. Problem for me is I am in a 2018 truck, they only allow pets in 2014 - 2016 trucks. I have a coupe of phone calls to make on Monday to see if I can get a new truck assignment so I can get a pet and get the details of the policy such as breed and weight restrictions and cost.

But yeah, everything is going good and I am still rolling. I will try to post updates a little more frequent to keep you guys informed, I know I have a lot of people following me on here.

 

HA! They can have the piece of junk. Not even 30k miles on it yet and the #### power window switch for the drivers window broke ... luckily I know a little redneck engineering and was able to fix it. I pushed it down to put it down when I went through the agriculture inspection station here in Florida then pulled up to take it back up and the SOB popped off. I enjoy driving a new truck but the thing is junk and cheaply made ... I need a real truck. LOL

 

It's actually an LT .... which is the new name of the Prostar beginning in 2018. I would get a Kenworth or Freightliner if they allow me to switch ... that is what their 2014-2016's are. They started getting International's in 2017 I think.

 

On a side note I think I am going to start something I see a few drivers doing but its not being done the way I will do it ....

I am going to be testing live streaming my drives. I do a little gaming streaming here and there on YouTube and Twitch. I am going to try to integrate some of the things I have in my gaming streams on my drive streams. Obviously I won't be able to read comments while driving but I am working on something that will help me with that too, its going to be very cool if it works.

This is just in the planning/testing stage at this point .... if things work out with the tests I will post more details and links to where you can catch the streams.

 

@G13Tomcat ... I have an update!

I am currently sitting in Tomah, Wisconsin, about 200 miles from my delivery tomorrow evening so I have a little bit of time to kill and post an update.

I came out of the house after Thanksgiving ( we celebrated Saturday after the actual holiday ). I picked up from Catalent in St. Petersburg, FL and went to PCI in Rockford, IL. I then picked up from PCI in Rockford, IL ... love those reloads .... and took the load to Genco in Tobyhanna, PA. It was a drop n hook BUT Genco did not have any of our trailers empty so I had to bobtail down to Pottsville, PA to (hopefully) get an empty at Tyson. Luckily they had one. I picked up my current load the next morning in Winchester, VA, it delivers to Walmart in Mankato, MN tomorrow evening at 1935. I then have a preplan that picks up in Marshall, MN Thursday morning at 0800 and delivers to Orlando, FL Sunday evening at 2100.

I was due home Friday but things did not work out so I am skipping home time and staying out until Christmas, well 12/22 or 12/23.

I have been trying for two days now to get in touch with the person in charge of pet and passenger passes because I desperately need some type of companionship while out here.