Live: On the ground from Aberdeen, Maryland

You know what job I would like to have? System floater if that job existed just go to different yards and warehouses around the company and help out doing what ever weather it be filling in or training guys or doing volume truck runs or running night transit just being a system wide utility man that's the job I want. Actually if I was an ATM at a big warehouse like Plant City where they have lots of trucks and trailers and men and machines and can spare people it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibilities I don't like being cooped up in my same route everyday box.

I've thought about applying for ATM if it came up just to use it as a stepping stone to get into another job. I'd like to get into fleet or road operations, but trying to still claw my way up from driver. Transits not bad volume truck market place store is better, eventually may have to relocate depending on what happens.

I'm not tied to anything so I can move and do what I want easily. The guys from the other brances the two ATM's I ate dinner with asked me about my personal situation and I said "I run the 6th largest route in Cleveland and I'm not married have no kids and live at home with my parents."

They said "Oh so you just bank money." Both of those guys have backgrounds in education and school teaching. I said "You know I worked in the restaurant business a little and when I was in high school decided I was going to work for a food company weather in transport or sales and my dad used to be an owner operator and a line haul driver for RPS so trucks and food like this isn't new to me." My mom's done a lot of work in the hospitality industry and has friends that work for Sysco Cleveland so me and this business isn't totally foreign.

All this stuffs been on my radar for a long time.

 

Alright back here in Aberdeen, have one more set of routes to go and then I'm heading back to "The Buckeye" Friday night. Everything went very smooth in Pennsylvania and my services were not needed. Which was good because I was a little anxious about what was going to happen, seeing that it was 10pm-11pm at night and I could have been on some scary New York City 3 day chain route, those are scary. Anyhow dodged the bullet on that one, one more day of helping or whatever and then I'm headed home! Did a lot of pinballing and stand up sit down, but learned a great great deal.

 

Alright so this is it last night in Hollywood, I'm going to bed, I have to be up at 4:00am for work and it's been a big 2 days. Anyhow I've enjoyed my time here on the east coast, tonight I went to dinner at Royal Farms. Which is very similar to our Get Go back in Ohio and Western, PA. All you guys from Ohio and Pittsburg Double R, Pintelhook, Tomcat and Mr.Dobolina you all know what I'm talking about.

Anyhow I must say GFS put is in very very very nice places all Hilton places expensive places none of the type of places you see USF Holland park there trucks at my room here at the hotel right now is very very nice and they set me up I felt really well for a trip like this. Glad to have gone and been out here in the land of Sho Nuff, dumdriver and Mack-E6 thank you for having me everyone was very very nice.

In a way I was glad I didn't have to go out last night, I was getting kind of anxious and a little nervious about having to do an emergency chain route to the Brox, New York or something.

Anyhow everything is all cool now and I'll be headed home tomorrow happy to be headed home, back to The Buckeye.

 

I was ready to go because I know I can do it (I think lol) but I'm not going to lie I was a little apprehensive about doing a 50ft NYC night time early morning chain route by my self. I think the other guys even though they didn't say it probably because they really can't probably felt the same way. I'm sure they were a little apprehensive as well. However it all worked out. Most of those stops are probably just park in the street and drop the ramp there's really not a whole lot more your going to do then that really.