Loggin on "Line 3" for TMC

Good luck Blind Dog this weekend, im just finishing up my first week at cdl school, and i got the downshifting down pretty good, never had problem with upshifting. I just cant wait to finish and get going in my future career and i enjoy reading your post and reading what other newbies are going through again good luck and be safe on the road.

 

Well up early this morning and still have a hour left on my 10. I am sitting at the TA in Knoxville, TN headed to Mt. Sterling, KY with a load of particle board. I hate Atlanta.....I only made it this far because of the traffic I had to sit in for a couple of hours. I was just sitting there watching my 14 dwindle down. I still have about three and a half hours to go.

 

well on the other hand beat's sitting in the truck stop all day with no load, i rather be running hard and get there a hour late , then the latter.

 

ok cal me stupid, but if your flatbed ok, why isnt all loads preplan, meaning your job is too drive there pick up the pipe or whatever and go, or is the paper work holding you up , if paper work, then both party's need a long talk, when i was hauling produce, and i was company, i felt like a freeking dispatcher calling ahead , too make sure the load and paper work was ready and paper work was ready when i got there too pick up , but if the load wasn't all there and i had too drive anthor 100 miles for rest of load , so be it, at lest i got the paper work for load

 

blind I am so sorry to hear what you are going through brother. I have only had one preplan put on me so far. doesn't happen a lot. I delivered in KY and bounced a little over a 100 miles to Silver Grove to Laforge. I was loaded with 15 pallets of sheetrock mud. I deliver this in Charlotte on Monday. Due to yesterdays trot through Atlanta and how I had to finish the run this morning, I haven't even started home. down for 10 at a Flying J in Walton, KY. Should be mostly downhill all the way home. I figure about a 9 hour drive and I start at 4am

 

Wow sorry dog, i thought very highly of tmc, i didn't know they run this way, i don't think i like too work like that, unless i was dropping and hooking all the time, even then you still would not make your time's, i can't believe there no freight in the hot general weather area, meaning let say kansa has a tornado, well run over get load of plywood from mn and get it there, i can't believe there window is so far open you just cant make all these on time, the way you put it, this leaves you no time too strap-tarp or anything like that, even tho i'm a door slammer, it still take's me a good half hour too get everything ready, 15 min's pre trip/15 min's for paperwork, running reefers i usually sat inside a cold storage for 6-7 hour's watching and counting , but they still gave me plenty time too get there.