Roehl Driver Check In

Good news guys, I'm conditionally hired with Roehl. Orientation is going to be in Grand Prairie Tx, just a short jump from PAMs Irving yard, and I'm getting two days in a hotel prior to orientation for a 34. So far, so good.

 

Congratulations 0D! Good to have you on the team. Best of luck in orientation.

 

Almost a good one today coming across 20 in MS. Saw a dog playing around on side of highway, I thought oh crap don't run out here, then got closer, it was a razorback. If I hit that at least more unusual than typical hit a deer story, didn't hit it though, thankfully.

 

At the J at 77/81 in Wytheville VA. Headed to mountaintop PA then home

 

Memphis Petro, Grand Prairie tomorrow.

 

Shell xt 258 off 34, Burlington, IA. Load to Fort Madison in the morning. Good, cheap food here! Got a tenderloin dinner, with potatoes, and corn for $4.99.

 

Will probably cost more in toilet paper tomorrow.

 

Believe me, I've thought about that..lol..Oh well it tasted good anyway. We'll see what happens.

 

Been busy out West! Ran to Cali, then back to Navajo country in N. AZ. From there down to Phx and back to Cali. Now sitting in Salt Lake for the first 2 of my 6 stop load. Last 4 are around Denver. Oh, and tarped! Racking up the bonus points and Pay! Hope there is a good run back east from there! Oh, and to update all, not sure I said it B4, counting the days till I move. 9 weeks and counting till I head to the Valley of the Sun! BAck to Phoenix! If the runs are like this all the time, hell I might double my pay for the year... Just sayin its been "berry good to me"

 

At the Terminal Of Despair. I see they expanded the parking from a XL P-Lot to a XL Flying Hook. I have had a rough start. I pick up an mt in Mogadore and the first thing I see wrong is a front clearance light is out. Fine I can work around that. I go into the trailer and see that the previous Driver left about 20 nails in the floor. Really? I get to the shipper in Warren, OH and see the airlines are hanging to low. I put a bungee strap under it to lift it up. Then comes the final blow, I stop at a service plaza on 80 to check the strap and I find the blue air line to the tank on the trailer is not attached and the fitting where it is supposed to go is gone. Maintenancelwnance sends me to Toledo to get a new fitting put on and take care of the light. So this is as far as I have gotten today. Well at least I got that mismatched drive tire swiched out. I am heading to Eau Claie tomorrow to deliver.