Post Gordon ~ Thoughts, Commentary & Reflections

Liked the translation.. very funny line... loved the movie moneyball .. very entertaining. ..

 

This is the part I still don't get. This driver for gordon got over 11k miles in 1 month and still did it running the stinker loads. Is this some special dedicated run??

Gordon Trucking, Inc. is excited to recognize Rodger Aishe as its July Driver of the Month. Rodger is one that you can always go to and he will accomplish the mission at hand; he primarily operates on the Wal-Mart account that runs from Coldwater, MI to Alpena, MI and Sault Saint Marie, MI. Rodger also hauls coke product as well for the CMI Fleet. During the month of July Rodger ran 11,365 miles on time sensitive freight with no violations, accidents or incidents. He does a great job with his fuel economy of 8.49 mpg.

 

Well it depends actually. If the "stinker" loads are true drop and hook, there is no wasted time and you can roll a lot of miles off them.

For example, one of my favorite runs is a safeway dedicated from aubrun, wa to spokane wa. 290 miles each way, and a true drop and hood. So you can run 580 miles a day in just about 10.5 hours. If I loved closer to the Pacific yard I would try and get on that dedicated. (So if you were on that dedicated (even getting the weekends off!!) you would get 11600 miles a month, weekends home with the wife, and the luxury of never having to try and find a partking spot at night!)

In the other thread Vic states that Gordon doesnt give good runs to rookie. Actually that isnt true, I got several of the those runs (seattle to Denver, Denver to C SoCal etc) after my first week or so. But then I have weeks like this one where I get stuck in the upper midwest on 200 mile loads for a week and make no money. Good for my MPG's, bad for my sleep and mental health!

 

No objections here.

 

works for me

 

yep good run until you have to chain both ways on the pass. May want to look at home base in Spokane if you do it. Start early, drop pacific mid day home for diner

Also unsure of how the dedicated pay is in relation to OTR. Met up with a dedicated guy on the Spokane end and he said they had cut the dedicated folks pay a while back.

 

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I guess since the other Gordon thread was locked in would like to clarify for Victor this one point. Your assumption that I am a 'Gordon Ringer' is ridiculous. I do not work for Gordon, I have never worked for Gordon, I do not know a single person who has ever worked for Gordon in my life.

I have been a member here for maybe, 6 or 7 years? I live in Florida, I don't think Gordon runs down here to be honest, or at least I don't recognize their trucks if they do. I have absolutely ZERO connection to Gordon. Period.

What I did was read this thread and enjoyed Victor's writing style and became interested in how his experience was going. At some point I started to feel that Victor had a bit of an agenda against Gordon and I suspected that he may have misled Gordon and the reader here about his 'experience', based on his posts and my experience driving a truck.

As time went on I began to not enjoy the thread as much due to what I viewed as Victor’s “disingenuous” accusations and the fact that he ignored his own shortcomings as the primary reason for his lack of success at Gordon. To me it went from being a well written, detailed account of one man’s experience to a “less than honest” hatchet thread of what seems to be a decent company.


I hate that sense of entitlement and the constant deflection of personal accountability that Victor has, nothing is his fault, there is always some larger conspiracy at work against him and he is the ‘little guy’ fighting against the MAN. Once Victor hit this point I lost all respect for him and his opinions about Gordon became worthless to me. That is just my opinion, just a guy sitting in Florida reading a public forum about trucking.

It does not surprise me that when Victor sensed criticism from me he would immediately make an attempt to label me a “Gordon ringer” (whatever that is) and lump me in with those forces who are aligned against him to keep the “little guy” down. Instead of considering what I am saying he makes ridiculous accusations that don’t come anywhere near passing the sniff test.

I have been here since 2008, I live on the opposite side of the Country from Gordon and all my previous posts are very indicative of who I am and who I am not. A Gordon Ringer? Can you provide even a single shred of evidence this is what I am? Anything?

Looks to me like you are the hypocrite here, when someone says something you don't like the first thing you do is make baseless personal attacks, deflect from the points you do not wish to answer. Personal attacks huh....


Look in the mirror Sir.