My Experience with Lone Star Transportation

not sure, never got anything certified from them in the past. You cut someone off again? Don't' sweat it.

 

LOL... probably. Who knows.. I have alot of variables going on in my life so it could be from any source really.

 

Who knows. I just turnrd over 715k on mine today. I like my truck but it would be nice to get a new one.

 

Turned in my paperwork this morning for that load that I dropped at the broker on Saturday, went back to the TA and a few hours later Tammy calls and says I'm going to MD. Got a 12'10" wide dump bed going to the port of Baltimore. I had home time set for the 2nd but I guess this was more important, she asked if I didn't want the load at least but this one counts toward level 3 so I'll take it! I'll put some pictures up tomorrow.

 

So, yesterday morning. I told Kristen that I only had 9 hours left on my 70. First, they try to load me out of port of Long Beach, but my truck was too old. Then they gave me a copper load out of AZ to pick up today, 540 miles away. So here I sit with no load waiting on hours to come back at the TA in Tonopah. Its a little frustrating when I told her at 0830 yesterday that it was going to be an issue.

 

sounds like they must have a bunch of copper loads going out if they still had you drive that far, probably get another one I'm guessing. Cat proving ground in Tucson also. Man they love doing those copper loads but then again California is always dead for us it seems at least until onions start going again lol.

 

I've been on a milege streak myself. I didn't get a reset last weekend since they deadheaded me from Reno to Ft. Worth... and I was out of hours after so I just came home for the night Monday.

I got a load out of Garland to Houston Tuesday around noon.. delivered this morning. Then I met with a driver in Baytown to swap my step for his flat and took it to Beaumont where I picked up a pre-loaded trailer (the rear axle actually slides forward to be legal in Canada... found that interesting) of steel going to just northeast of Edmonton, AB... 2380 mi w/ the deadhead. I made it back up to FTW around 2100 and called it a night at home. My intent was to leave out in the morning on Thursday and run every day... about 350 to 500 mi a day until Tues when I deliver. But after looking at the Canadian HOS I needed a reset to be legal... so i'm off until Friday.

I thought about pushing and getting there mid monday afternoon.. but I could use a few days of slow running.. even with the reset i'm just going to leave my eta as Tuesday and run about 9 hours a day.

 

Been pretty cold lately up here in Edmonton. -42c with the windchill. Don't shut the truck off! Lol

 

Yeah, I checked my weather app after I got the load and saw it was a high of -11F yesterday with a windchill of -17F... and the low was -22F or something. my first thought was "yeah... I can't wait to get up there!" But then I looked at the outlook and its at least supposed to be in the positives over the weekend so theres hope!

 

Only problem with that is the roads turn into a sheet of ice lol. 2 weeks ago it was in the positives then the temp dropped really fast. Semis were spun out at traffic lights and had to chain up to make slight grades. Myself the only problem I had was the trailers were frozen in place in the yard so I kept getting pulled out by excavators haha.