My new adventure with Gordon Trucking

Same to you Tow and the rest of the participants on this board be safe.

 

Not a bad day today 581 miles. A little over 300 to do to get to Lansing Mi. Should be there around 2 pm. A few more days and it time for home and christmas.

I wonder what Santa will leave me. I have been a Good Boy.

 

What a day! Headed for Aurora...started in Winnemucca,NV bad weather right from the start to the finish....snow,ice fog early on then headed into a rest area at the other end of the desert on 80 and get stuck on the ice and snow....chain up and manage to get it off...end up at the TA here in Fort Bridger exhausted....hopefully home by Monday....

Oh, and I start reefer when I come back out!

 

So you were one of the smurfs going the other way! Just parked in Fernley, NV after leaving Fort Bridger this A.M.

Hope you can follow that crap to CO rather than pass though it again.

One word of Caution about refer fleet. In the past you had to threaten to quit (and be convincing about it) to get off refer and back on the dry side

 

Sometimes I prefer live load/unload....as long as it's not the 7.5 hour variety of course!! At least you know you have an empty at the end....Which is of course one of the big downfalls when dropping at a yard, especially over a weekend. I certainly am hoping for longer runs, and I would guess that is dependent more on how you have your home time set. I am perfectly happy running 3 days without having to worry about loading/unloading etc.... just as a guide what, ball park, would you say your average length of haul is? I would say mine currently would be hovering around the 6-800 mark (I will have to check to make sure!!)..and how much d/h do you do as opposed to live....and wash outs,do you do them every time and presumably after emptying out? do they have accounts with blue beacon and the like for that? Mark is going to be my DM by the way!!

Hope you all have a great few days and can get home!!!

And just in case there are any Tottenham Hotspur fans on here, all I have to say is Tottenham 0 Liverpool 5!!!!! HAHAHA..... to those of you confused they are 2 English Soccer teams (being born and raised in England..)

 

Should be dropping this load at Denver as there was NO way I was going to make 6am in Aurora today!!! Hopefully heading east from there!

 

What a week this has been. I won't go into detail because Mastertech and Bullhaulerswife would certainly order me to write the darned book, but I've had a steering column failure resulting in a truck that had very limited left-turning ability (and wasn't that fun!) preplans that were impossible from the start (how does one start a trip 3 hours after expiration of a 14, I want to know) and this crazy-##### weather. And the ProStar loaner they have me wanted a parked regen. But then it didn't. But then it did. And Dennis Rodman is trying out a North Korea basketball team? Really?

Makes a driver seriously want to retire. Again.

 

I might be a weirdo when it comes to this kind of stuff (or just old!) but I've had many fewer issues with live loads than with drop/hook.and I slep next to a reefer two days ago...music to my ear!

I do have to make one small correction to what is obviously a typo. They don't play soccer in England. They play football, the way it was meant to be played. As one who grew up in Jordan, football was my #1 sport.