left werner for roehl....issue suggestions???

I could care less how tight a window is there is no way in #### I am going to go one day without a bath and there is no ones freight worth going 10 You say its not about the money well why are you working like a slave

 

Next time you hit a Pilot, grab a copy of that free magazine they have (Challenge, IIRC) it has the most up to date list of their facilities in each issue.

USA has a company "fuel book" they handed out, and I used to go by that (even if some STATES aren't even IN it) but I got bored hitting the same old crowded truck stops.

In the last month of working, I even discovered two truckstops that had been recently "aquired" by Pilot. They weren't the cleanest or nicest, but it was a nice change of pace from the constant Red & Yellow. (and they had REAL diners inside! Not Arbys/Wendy's/Micky's)

Also, if you're ever in the N/E again, you can get a decent night's sleep/meal at Mohegan Sun. They let trucks park in the bus lot. (just don't "water the plants" okay?)

 

Yep, a nice cheap bucket and liquid soap from WalMart did wonders for me when I was flatbedding. It's tough, but it'll definitely make you feel better when you wakeup clean instead of smelling like a billy goat.

..... just like I did. Why I couldnt get hired with Roehl.

What are you pulling for Roehl? Reefer? Flat? That is a LOT of miles!! I didnt expect that from that co.

 

Buy your drinking water in gallon jugs. When empty:

Fill up from the spigots by the fuel pumps, basin by the coffee urns at Pilot, or wherever you can - but don't drink this stuff if it's non-potable. Then get a plastic wash basin - your granma probably did her dishes in one of these years ago, and some wash cloths, towels, soap and shampoo from WalMart. Keep the jug filled.

Your headed for a "GI bath" - although we used helmet liners instead of a plastic tub. With practice, you can get it done in about a quart of water tops. Benefit... if you do this right, you get cleaned up every day whether you have a truckstop shower or shower credits available.

Deluxe mode: Buy one of those little mirrors you can find in the truckstop, hang it from some netting in the sleeper, get your shaving kit out. Heck... ya'll gonna be stylin' it before long!

 

Helmet liners... Wow. I remember those!

I also remember shaving and washing up in the steel pot, as well as cooking in the dang things. Nowadays, we have that freakin Kevlar. As much as I know they will protect my grape, I still hate em.


What on EARTH made me come back into the Marine Corps 16 years after getting out?

 

With 7mos in a truck and getting 3k a week out of Werner? Now not able to stop in 10 days working for Roehl? I find it hard to believe you get all these tight loads and always have the hours to get them delivered. Not always been the sharpest tool in the shed but this just doesn't add up.

 

I call BS. I quit Roehl for low miles back in october '08 not getting more than 1500 a week, sitting for over a day after empty waiting on something/anything. The dispatches were NEVER tight windows (for national van), I just about always delivered a day early and when they wouldn't take the load early, would have to find a place to park and wait til morning to get it off my truck so I could find something else to run with, if they had anything for me in the area I was in.

I've taken TWO showers at the same Pilot without leaving the property waiting on a load (and at the Gary terminal) before just to have something to do! The problem I have with this post is the truck governed at 62mph getting this many miles while logging load/unload and staying within your 70.

You fuel almost exclusively at Pilot which has Transflo. Running all these miles you should be filling up the tanks every other day, giving you ample opportunity to walk in for a few minutes and scan your trip sheets.

The postings just aren't adding up without more explanation as to why you can't scan or shower when you have to stop at Pilot to fill up. I don't work there anymore, maybe their freight became "red hot" in this great economic time to give you a benefit of a doubt.

 

Two things...

First, freight volume (not rates) has picked up significantly since 3rd-4th quarter '08.

Second, he's a newb - probably doesn't yet understand how to manage his time properly.