PRIME Drivers... What's your 20? (2)

Johnson City, TN at 90 till morn appt.

On the edge of Cherokee Nat'l Forest, one of my favorite places in the country. "Trail of Tears" started right here & ended where I "kinda" live in OK.

Pulled for inspection at London, KY scale & all good.

Since wasn't rushed for time, had a nice lengthy bull session with the trooper. He's retiring in 2yrs & coming to join us on the road as one of US! LOL

He recently started driving part time on a 20yr old CDL that he never utilized in the past, so still green all around. Plans to go full time after retiring. Had lots of questions.

Nice to be able to have the time to talk to a trooper about both side's perspectives & what we both deal with when our paths happen to cross.

Good guy...... I wish the best for him on his second career path. Will prob be hearing from him down the line.

Just goes to show ya, no telling how those "Oh, Crap...." moments may turn out. Sometimes, you just don't know.... LOL

Been a beautiful day in the backwoods, coming in off the back roads....I must say.

(Should have ended this by saying he still wrote me a bunch of tickets, but..... LOL).


Peace All

 

Ta in Commerce, Ga. Delivered to wait till midnight to deliver to my 90. Running off of recaps so switched to night driving 1) fm needed this load hauled and on time only way to do this was switch to nights and 2) I'm out of hours. And it's about to get worse as I'll only be getting very little hours back after tonight.

I need a reset.

 

Murfreesboro, TN.

01 just blew chance for reset, still running recaps. Had to roll 1hr hour short of full reset to make it on time. Show up.....no product to ship. Go on to your next P/U.

Anyone believe in phone calls, anymore......

 

Monroe, Nc delivery to Valley View, Ohio thursday

 

Yup, still at as freightliner figures what's wrong with my truck. Now they have freightliner engineers and corporate involved so who knows where that'll lead them. Hopefully to figuring it all out once and for all!!!

 

Greensboro, NC at my 90.

 

Hey,

Just realized it. Your right by me now AND heading right back to our home territory. (We'll, at least it USED to be....LOL!).

Valley View right next door to where I grew up. Mayor, police chief & most of council still good friends of mine. Run into any crap there......well, you're on your own!

Keep that skateboard outta the canals, eh?

 

Monroe, NC

 

Valleyview, Ohio just got unloaded an hour early from my appointment sweet! Now to sit and wait because prime fails at planning trucks and rather have them sit and waste hours

 

Still sitting in Seattle. Got to love warranty work! Freightliner engineers are now having them remove the interaxle drive shaft and test drive it to see if that shaft is the problem. It's the only one that hasn't been worked on or looked at so far. If that doesn't change the vibration on the test drive, they'll take the main drive shaft out again and rev the engine up while in 10th gear to see if it's an engine or transmission issue.

At least warranty is paying for all of this work, that's the plus side! I just want back to driving already!!!

If I'm down much longer I'm thinking it's time to buy another truck so I can just go make some money and let freightliner just take there time fixing this one.

@FullMetalJacket I might have a truck for you!