Running With Shipex

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    atruckr Road Train Member

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    About 4 usually. Sometimes more
     
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    After that Streetsboro Ohio drop, they loaded me out of Euclid OH with a dry load of welding supplies. Boogied my tail down here to Oklahoma city for live unload. Now my next load is also a live load picking up close in Yukon OK. Its a frozen load heading to Reno NV . This should of been a Bumper load! Geash!
     
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    What do you mean by safety practices?
     
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    Once a month watch safety training vids, no hours of service violation, no crash events, no speeding above 73 mph etc.. Your speed, Log and video training have point values on them. If you screw one up you don't loose the entire safety bonus but it will be less.
     
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    One time i missed 2 or 3 DVIR'S on my logs so my satety bonus was only $30 bucks :biggrin_25521:. Didn't loose it completely but it got cut.
    Off the top of my head im not certain about the point value on these violations but it's in our drver manual for reference.
    Usually when i do everything correctly i receive about $120 to $135 in safety bonus depending on the mileage that month.
     
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    Do y'all go to many grocery warehouses and cold storage facilities?
     
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    Sometimes, not frequently.
     
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    Hanging out in my driver's lounge. :biggrin_2559:. Pic for those that haven't seen the Cascadia lounge. 20191104_054334.jpg

    Cooked up some breakfast and getting ready to run another few hundred miles heading to Indiana on another Nestle load
     
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    How comfortable are the mattresses with that set up? Since it folds against the wall my guess is it’s not real thick. Love the setup just wondered if that mattress was an issue?
     
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    It's actually been comfortable if you get the black therapeutic mattress that comes with the truck. They tend to change them out once the truck's been used but you can make a request for the Original mattress and they will usually have some you can put back in.
     
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