Millis OTR journal

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    Steelersjunkie Road Train Member

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    I wouldn't be here without them. I was treated very well at Millis. I doubt you'll see many complaints on this thread lol.
     
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    I got a pair of those from the shop recently and I hadn't put them on yet. Put them on while they were unloading me this morning because the old ones had pretty much wiped their last wipe. We'll see how they do.

    I tried cranking the heat all the way up and putting on the defroster. This seemed to help some but even with the window down we would have had a cooked Gremlin if I'd done that for very long.

    In other news, I hope none of y'all are heading to Owens in Lexington. We're already lined up back to the tracks. This is the first time I've ever had to wait for a load here or to even live load at all.
     
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    Lucky you. I've been there about a dozen times and all of them but one were live loads.
     
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    Yea, I’ve been hard pressed to find any bad reviews. That’s a good thing. When I do see something bad when most reviews are good, I gotta assume they were either and axxhole or lazy, possibly both. lol
     
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    That's how it's always been for me when I go to Owens in Waco. There'll be 6 or 7 dropped Millis trailers down at that one end of the plant but my load will still be in the warehouse.
     
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    Lol yup that's usually the case
     
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    Yeah the sour grapes posts are pretty easy to detect...because they are usually made by somebody with like 3 posts and they all smell like...sour grapes.

    I am probably not going to stay with Millis forever, because for whatever reason I have a hankering to eventually haul plastic pellets in bulk tanks. But unless they really do something to tick me off between now and when I leave, I will still send people to them to start a truck driving career if that's what they want to do.
     
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    I try not to complain much, but 5 hours and still haven't been given a door. I've driven a total of 84.5 miles today. Ballin', lemme tell ya.
     
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    I feel your pain. I just got parked after sitting at a shipper for 5 hours. Lost my next load as well.
     
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    After 6 hours they finally called me and gave me a door. I've been on the door for about an hour and a half and I haven't even felt them put the dock plate down yet.