Well put smokr.
Maintenance issues while on a lease can break the back of the strongest operator. Preventive maintenance is crucial, and if you see a problem developing, take care of it quickly, don't let it get worse, and more expensive, and more down time.
Leasing from any company is a difficult road to go down...a fine line, as they control your ability to make a profit, by the loads and miles you are dispatched on.
Have followed smokers adventures, and he has put in the hard work to get to the dedicated account close to home, and is putting in the work to make that work for him.
Congratulations Smokr on you pending anniversary
One year with Stevens
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I'm hiding from the great Chicago/Gary blizzard at home.
Yesterday at the Sams DC at 3pm, I pulled up both of these images online. I was heading to Chicago from east of Indy at SR9 and I70 with and empty dry van, not a reefer. One fuel tank because the right one leaks when over 3/4 full, and two PID messages on the dashboard yesterday. The first image is Chicago, the second where I was.
It was head north and a bit east to wait it out at home 2 hours away, where it was to hit least, or use up my last five daily hours to head west to Indy then I65 trying for downtown Chicago with an empty, and either staying at the drop point, (almost certainly - if I made it) or trying to bobtail to the rail yard where I couldn't break or stay. And going west I would have headed into those rains during sunset and temps dropping toward freezing and 30mph winds. With five hours to drive what takes almost five in good weather.
I'd have probably made Remington, IN most likely before stopping and checking radar and seeing that is was worse in Chicago, and only going to get windier and colder. Instead I got home and saw it on radar here.
And this way I get a reset and don't have to worry about having only nine hours on my 70 until Wednesday am stuck up in Chicago fighting for a hole to hide in and blowing my Monday pickup for a new customer. Now that rail load waits a day, and I instead will probably pick up at the new customer in southern Indiana Monday evening and deliver it to the same rail yard, bit of luck. There I can pick up that delayed one going to a buffer warehouse in Ohio. All on full hours instead of waiting until Wednesday for hours.Attached Files:
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