Magnum ltd - fargo, nd

Don't we love that certain shipper in Grand Forks(the one where Mr. Impatient loaded) ...pre cool your trailer to -10 so we can load our warm french fries off of our 80 degree heated dock. I will never understand some of these places, but hey, as long as they pay their bills I guess.

And according to the message from Mr. Tony, I am not the only Florida boy here now...geeez, and here I thought I finally found some place where I was unique.

 

How many chains? Washington requires 7. Just a heads up.

 

Sent you a pm with my only hidey hole.

 

My trainer happened to be Oor...
I scaled every load, I slid the tandems, I backed up the truck to the docks, I parked at the truck stops ect.... He instructed.
He drove a total of 45 minutes of my entire training period. And that was to get to a receiver when my clock ran out. Great trainer... Learned a lot from him.
We still talk a few times a week. And if I need some advice about clock usage, shipper and receivers ect I still call and ask him. I am well outside of the time he gat paid to train me. But he is a genuinely nice guy always willing to help out.

His wife makes awesome chocolate chip cookies too.

 

My whole plan for the weekend went sideways when my load back down to Suffolk got cancelled.
Chad got me a 2 stopper load headed for Indian Trail and Greensboro NC. I pick up Saturday AM in Gaylord. Still a nice load.
Chad didn't know if he could get a local guy to deliver my load over in Eagan at 4 PM today... So I drove straight there yesterday... I was gonna get the fkn reset any way I could. They fit me in about Midnight last night. Slept half the day away in Coon Rapids. Took a shower, did laundry, went to Walmart.... Ready to roll in the AM!!
Still might get a night at home... Or a hotel... With the wife...
Deliver both Tuesday AM... Jeremy working on a reload...

Time for some Mexican food!

 

I have just one question before I comment. Did Mrs. Oor give you the recipe for those cookies? I love good c/c cookies.

It's good to see some still train more than just how to get from point a to b. I think it should be mandatory that some of the trips should be done GPS-free. Hand the trainee an atlas, a pick up location, a delivery location and teach how to trip plan old school. Technology fails, no matter how good the equipment is.

When I was at Prime, my driver manager couldn't understand how I could know, before leaving the shipper, when I was going to be available and with how many hours I would have left when I was running across the country. They have so many trainees that aren't taught the basics of trip planning that he just couldn't wrap his head around how I knew not only when I was going to be there, and how many hours I was going to use, but what truck stops I was going to stay at each night, and how many hours I was planning to spend at each.

 

Delivered at Kay chemical at 20:00 04/22/16, get loaded at Kay at 11:30 04/22/16. Worked it out, deliver in Romeoville,IL at 10:00 04/25/16. Get loaded at the same at 15:00 and deliver in Findley, mn on 26th. Lovin preplan.

 

See below reply.

 

I didn'tcount them, I just took what the shop gave me. Seemed like 150 pounds when I loaded 'em - I hope that's enough!

 

Chain restrictions are over now so you will be good...