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So I called LST just to inquire. Living in Reno, I'd have to accept running 6-8 weeks at a time. That's not TOO awful, unless my wife and I finally succeed in getting pregnant this year... Missing 2 months of my baby's life at a time is asking a lot.

 

How long do you stay out now? When I worked at Roehl I stayed out 18 days, when I left I went to ATS and had to stay out 4 weeks at a time. Dosent seem like a lot more but it seemed like FOREVER!!!

 

What these ####### idiots in Washington didn't take into consideration is that to stop for 30 minutes is more like a 45 minute stop. At least it can be. Take into the time to get on and off the highway, traffic, lights, etc, etc, and before you know it, you've lost 45 minutes, EASILY. So instead we're having to add at least an hour and a half to 3 hours to a run and that is costing us money. This is EXACTLY why I'm saving up for school as we speak. I want to be paid for every ####### minute I'm at work, not a penny less.

Best of luck to you in the new endeavor man. Wish I could do that myself right now.

 

I was told being from Florida I'd have to stay out a minimum of 6-8 weeks also, though I only stay out a bout 5 weeks then go home.

They'll say that but once you start running with your dispatcher they'll get to know your schedule. Mine asks me when I want to go home. Others may or may not do the same


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I-35 between Austin and the east/west split is a disaster. Took me 7 hours to get to the split from Laredo. 35 needs to be 6 lanes in both directions from San Antonio to the split. I hope that's what they're doing with all of that construction.

Anyways, headed to Peoria to deliver Tuesday.

 

In Shelby, MT with a load of structured steel (that used every chain I had) waiting for my paperwork so I can cross the border, it's apparently in the office but no one has e-mailed it to me. Got a roadside level 3 in CO, pulled me right off the road into a makeshift inspection area, was clean though so $100 for 20 mins of my time is really not a problem.

 

Well, heck... Im in larime, WY for the night. Picked up in albany and portland OR headed to arcadia, LA and Huntsville, AL. Should be in LA by the 31 and easily to Huntsville on the 2nd...