Millis OTR journal

Got my start at Millis in 2011 with Bill in Trenton...miss it sometimes. Did my 2 years and moved on to home everyday fuel hauling. Wouldn't be where I am today without that experience. They trained me to run and run I did...haven't stopped since
Guys will sometimes say "#### you can knock some #### out!"...or "you gonna leave any meat on that bone!?"

Thank you Millis.

Be safe...out.

 

When we were in orientation they mentioned the trucks having some sort of electronic stability control. Is there a switch for that? I'm getting nauseous driving in these croswinds and would sure appreciate something to cut down on all the buffeting.

 

Well!

Any other differences between those and the non-eagle 21xxx trailers?

 

Dont think so. 1 of my previous students pickee that up today from Wabash and logo is only thing he mentioned.

 

I was hoping they'd at least bring back the Meritor system.

 

Nope. You should have driven one of the first air cabs Ford CL9000. No shocks. Cushy cushy ride but felt like the cab was gonna fall off the frame in a curve. You’ll get used to it.

 

As stated before, I’m glad I’m off the triangle run. Dispatch, wait Mister, pick up St. Cloud and goto MW in Memphis. ####. So here I sit in Waconia, MN out of hours supposed to load tonight. Dispatch, get it it when you can. Um, okay but I don’t think I’m gonna make my 0900 appt tomorrow morning. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, silence.

 

Arent you only 1.5hrs away from St Cloud? Or you mean you're supposed to load St Cloud tonight?

 

Was supposed to load last night. Dispatch knew, they even said so, so I ain’t mad. Yeah, I’m pretty close but my bed is so comfy and warm. Lol,,,,,

 

Learned something new today. Per my last post, dispatch and I were aware I was gonna be a day late at StCloud. Walk to check in and the lady says I’m >6 hours late, gotta have a new appt. She wasn’t ugly about it, in fact she was apologetic. Soooo, I traipse back to the truck, send a msg to Mike and he immediately responded , hang on a sec. 5 minutes later, new trip loading in St Cloud to Rochester with preplan to Memphis. Fork yeah, I’ll take that. Mike said he’d have me a load outa Memphis to Cville so I can get hometime with my middle sister whom I haven’t seen in 3 years.
I’m kinda pissed off though. Not getting any miles,,,,
Monday morning Rochester will be a paltry 3868 miles for the week.
So here I sit at xt 28 on I-94 in WI with a pizza. Life is tough man.