Menards Inc.- The Good and The Bad

Actually I was on first shift before and on 2nds you get a lot less vendor p/u which is what brings down my mileage average every week. A lot less live unloads and waiting around a customers lot means more money in my pocket right off the bat.

 

So it finally happened last week. I moved to seconds and have a regular truck that I drive. So now I am making .31 cpm plus my stop pay. They switched my schedule around though so now I work Mon-Fri one week, then Sun-Wed with Thur off then work Fri. It's a little messed up but the best part is making .43 cpm on every other Sunday.

So if you see me around the DC or up and down I94 give me a hollar on the CB. My truck number is 8178, a diesel(for now). I start from 1-3 p.m. and get done at 1-3 a.m. and always roll with my cb on.

On a somewhat more interesting note, we got a Hybrid truck on Friday. Its a reman Columbia with a 60 series that is diesel and CNG. I am really interested in how it works and have not been told much about it yet. It has a 100g diesel tank on the passenger side and a 45 gallon CNG tank on the drivers side. I think we are just testing it out but, I think that now we have been through 2 generations of CNGs they are not too happy with how they are performing.

And on a sad note they are trying out Drive Cams in about half the trucks... I guess we will see how it goes. I have not really had any bad experience so I am keeping an open mind for now.

 

See ours are real sensitive and they have even admitted it and they go off all the time. The office staff have been getting a lot of complaints about it.

 

Yeah I guess if I want to starve all winter long. My dad went through 2 winters of it before he quit. Eau Claire is an in line terminal so it really dries up during the winter months.

 

Started my day at 1:20 p.m. I did a D&H at both the Maple Grove and Coon Rapids stores got back and did an Eau Claire West key drop. 417 miles X .43 = 179.31 plus $35 in stop pay. Logged off the computer at 11:45 p.m. Pretty easy day. Although I will say the people that designed that Coon Rapids store really could give a rats ### less about truckers.