OTR solo miles?

Discussion in 'Watkins & Shepard' started by WingRider, Feb 4, 2013.

  1. sal

    sal Medium Load Member

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    Thought You were driving a "Bread" truck in Portland ?
     
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  3. WingRider

    WingRider Medium Load Member

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    Its been a rough start back into the OTR side. We sat two days in Vancouver waiting for a load, which was expected since dispatch didnt see me on the inbound board since we just came off the Shortline board. Then we got a load to Rancho Cucamonga, we got down to SFS a day early and couldnt drop the load, so did a few local deliveries for Michelle, then delivered our load on Thursday. Michelle gave us a good load to Myrtle with 3 drops in Dallas/Forth Worth area, this where things went bad. Instead of the load being ready at the "normal" 2am, we finally got notified it was ready at 8am Saturday morning, still not a big deal, plenty of time to make the first drop in Fort Worth, stopped and go some fuel in Ontario and finally headed out of town. We made to Indio with a nice tail wind and getting good fuel mileage, as we started up the hill just past Indio/Coachella, we were passing most of the trucks up the hill and feelin pretty good about the day.....then....all the gauges started going crazy and we lost electrical power to the engine and coasted to the shoulder of the road with only six inches from the fog line. After messing with it for about an hour trying to get it going, I decided to call for service, grabbed the phone only to find out NO SERVICE!!, no problem, I will just use the Quallcom, uh-oh NO SIGNAL!! As a last resort I start calling the trucks going by on the CB, finally someone actually had their radio on, the made a call to the Missoula shop and told them my location and situation, the shop called the TA in Coachella and got a service truck headed our way. After waiting 3 hours for the truck to show up, he couldnt find the problem and had to call a tow truck, which took another hour to get to us. Then had to be towed back to Indio for the night, and then ALL THE WAY back to Fontana to Freightliner on Sunday, who can only except trucks on Sunday but not work on them, so now we are sitting in a Motel in Ontario waiting to see if my truck is going to be ready anytime soon. Wish us luck.
     
    sal Thanks this.
  4. Passin Thru

    Passin Thru Road Train Member

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    Last I heard flats were doing 130000 a year. Killer.
     
  5. FRG1735

    FRG1735 Light Load Member

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    Hey Wingrider, how many miles you average doing shortline?
     
  6. WingRider

    WingRider Medium Load Member

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    I was running about 4500 miles/month and about 150 drops per month
     
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  7. the flying scotsman

    the flying scotsman Medium Load Member

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    Hey Dale, I was delivering to sparks the other day and seen delfino on a route in his white daycab...new guy hurt his back! :(
     
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