My new, final resting place

Hanging out at the Pilot just outside Mobile. Tomorrow, we ditch the last of 4 loads and await the next one. Just to make me remember my place in the world, I nailed the first fairly tight blindside back first thing and then blew what should have been an easy normal back into a very open parking space.

Just to remind me of my place in the world...

 

Clearly, an irrelevant post. Please stop.

 

Overnighting at a Pilot in northern Indiana. We will make our push for a 10:00 a.m. delivery tomorrow. After that, who knows. Tomorrow is also my 'anticipated graduation' date and I have no idea what to expect. My guess is they will work on routing us under a load back to Nashville so I can take my final road test. After that, I will join the ranks of income producers for the company, nervous as I am about it after so short a time.

It all starts tomorrow...

 

Delivery in Kenosha then on to Fond du Lac

 

We made the drop and a pick up. We are heading for a new home construction job site delivery in the mountains of North Carolina. And rain. Oh, what rain.

 

Saturday, April 4. Two days after my "anticipated graduation date" and we are headed to some truck stop in Indiana, not Nashville for me to test out. We will meet up with another driver and swap loads, then head to Omaha, Nebraska. From there, he says, we will go pick up copper "out West" and take it to New York City.

You can bet I will send an email to the training coordinator and my recruiter. Driving team is not something I signed up for nor want to do. And it sure seems like that's what we are doing.

 

I did not know that and never heard his name. It's strange but not one word was said about company history or who started it or anything other than Western will be all-auto in 2-3 years and they saved $35M last year which is the reason the flatbed division got the big pay raise. I'm not sure the current leadership is very proud of their past.