My Millis Transfer Experience Starting 9/19/11

Driver Training Day 12 & 13.... We ended up dropping a loaded trailer of paper in Trenton on Tuesday and grabbed an empty one for my CDL test. Drove down to Walton, KY for the night and got up and headed to my CDL test. I blew my CDL pre-trip so I'll be going back in a couple of weeks. After the test I went home for the night. Next morning I met my trainer at the truck and headed back to Trenton to get a load going to Alanta, Ga. I drove up and back to Georgetown, KY and was dropped for my home time as my trainer was headed to GA for his home time.

 

Driver Training Day 14....Trainer picked me up on Wednesday. Had some issues at home and wasn't able to leave out on Monday. We have a load headed to West Allis and I took over the driving as soon as I got in the truck. Ran up to North of Indy and stopped for the night.

 

Driver Training Day 15..... Finished hauling the load up to West Allis and couldn't find an empty so we headed over to Richfield and got an empty. New load picking up at Quad Graphics at 11 pm. So we are taking our 10 in Richfield. Did the pre=trip on the new trailer and found bad cords on one of the inner tires. Had the shop replace the tire. I have found and had replaced 8 tires on trailers since coming out on the road. I should have all new tires on the trailer fleet within the year.....lol We thought the load at Quad Graphics was a drop and hook, but noooooo it was a live load and we were tight on time anyway. After running the numbers and not wanting to be late or make excuses the only way to do the load was to have my trainer run out his hours and then let me run it on in and that is what we did. I have come to hate the hills in PA. I thought when we got out of PA that there would be flat land noooooo the hills continue on into NJ, CT, NY and RI. Made it to the Receiver (USPS) at 12:30 am and crashed or should I say "went into a coma". Got up at 8 am and docked was able to get unloaded around 11 am. Got dropped off at a Days Inn motel in New Bedford MA for the weekend while my trainer visited with his daughter. Will be hitting ready for dispatch at 7 am on monday. I'm ready for some loads. Rescheduled my CDL test for the 16th hopefully I'll get it this time. Have been studing really hard. The tester gave me some pointers for next time. He even told me what he would be looking for on the rest of it. So hopefully it will go good. Until next time.