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My new experience with Gordon Trucking, post-buyout

Discussion in 'Gordon' started by DenaliDad, Jan 11, 2014.

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  1. Feb 8, 2014 #201
    abenaki

    abenaki Bobtail Member

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    Did you make it out of SIX tonight? I am in Ft. Bridger, Wy waiting on the wind to ease up to get this load to Mi.
     
    abenaki, Feb 8, 2014
    abenaki, Feb 8, 2014
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  3. Feb 8, 2014 #202
    abenaki

    abenaki Bobtail Member

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    Sorry. Meant SLC.
     
    abenaki, Feb 8, 2014
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  4. Feb 9, 2014 #203
    DenaliDad

    DenaliDad Retired Wheel Dog

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    I'm sitting in a VERY crowded TA in Cheyenne for my break. What with 35 mph speed limits, 65 mph crosswinds, blowing snow, and crazzzzy ### truck drivers not paying attention to things and ending up in the ditch - I must have seen 25 of them between SLC and Cheyenne - the drive took many more hours than I planned. So instead of being at or near my next fuel stop in Nebraska, I'm still in Wyoming.

    And I'm pretty sure the DM's aren't all that happy with the new ETA...Thursday, not Monday. Well, I guess late is still better than the other companies drivers who won't be making their deliveries at all. I just hope to avoid them while they careen down the interstate, bouncing off one another.

    Here's the bright side: I didn't have to chain again - small victory! - and I'm not in the Midwest yet. Yippee.
     
    DenaliDad, Feb 9, 2014
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  5. Feb 9, 2014 #204
    GreyHound

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    Take all the crap weather with you before I get up there.....
     
    GreyHound, Feb 9, 2014
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  7. Feb 10, 2014 #205
    DenaliDad

    DenaliDad Retired Wheel Dog

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    I just lost an ENTIRE post. I hate it when that happens. There's no way I can redo all five paragraphs or so.
     
    DenaliDad, Feb 10, 2014
    DenaliDad, Feb 10, 2014
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  8. Feb 10, 2014 #206
    Bumper

    Bumper Road Train Member

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    So are you guys getting the shut down messages from safety? I got shut down in Arkansas Friday night until noon on Saturday. And since there are no chains on my truck that was probably a good thing.
     
    Bumper, Feb 10, 2014
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  9. Feb 10, 2014 #207
    DenaliDad

    DenaliDad Retired Wheel Dog

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    Me, no shutdown messages. But I'm no longer in inclement weather.
     
    DenaliDad, Feb 10, 2014
    DenaliDad, Feb 10, 2014
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  10. Feb 10, 2014 #208
    GreyHound

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    no shutdown msg for me but then I think I can brave it thru here.
     
    GreyHound, Feb 10, 2014
    GreyHound, Feb 10, 2014
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  11. Feb 11, 2014 #209
    tow614

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    Gordon never did shut down messages... they always hired professionals who knew how to drive...or at least had sense enough to shutdown without being told......

    I hate those companies that monitor every move your truck makes and calls you when you stop: wanting an explanation...


    wasn't a dig at you bumper... don't take offense....
     
    tow614, Feb 11, 2014
    tow614, Feb 11, 2014
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    Bumper Thanks this.
  12. Feb 11, 2014 #210
    Sonny Pruitt

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    I remember the first Cascadia that I looked at. The profiling on the back wall of the sleeper knocks a HUGE amount of the noise down, both because it doesn't oil-can as much as a flat wall (and what oil-canning it does is in small doses at different frequencies), and because the flat walls that most trucks have had would "pino-pong" road and engine noise back and forth between tractor and trailer, while the profiling aims the sound reflections away at an angle.
     
    Sonny Pruitt, Feb 11, 2014
    Sonny Pruitt, Feb 11, 2014
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