Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

Everyone learns different, I am good when it is calm so yes nerves get to your shifting but if you are anything like me, if I am in the truck with someone I don't know I can't help but get nervous. They do not expect you to be perfect even though they act that way so try to give it time and just concentrate on what you are doing and the road, I can't stand someone trying to talk to me while I was learning to shift lol ( unless I am truly messing up just shut up lol).

 

Oh shut up, you!

You're obviously a recruiter!

 

This was a first. Never had to pay a lumper fee when picking up a load before.

 

Hey I've been in there before. Pretty darn cool isn't? I actually stopped outside the entrance and walked inside to make sure this was right. There is even a railroad track in there.

 

One of the most frustrating parts of being a TE is when you have a great trainee. One who only needs to be taught something once, then reminded a couple of times for each skill. One who ask questions, owns his mistakes, and works to learn the craft that is truck driving.

It's frustrating because invariably the next guy you sucks. You're reminded that it shouldn't be this hard. You shouldn't have to tell them to shut the truck off three times before they do it. You shouldn't have to appologize for saying "your other left hand" as you teach them how to open a trailer door.

Last week I did 3100 paid miles in 7 days. No super 14, no sleeper berth time to conserve the trainees 70. The only driving or backing I did was to give the guy a chance to trip plan.

Today we logged 9 hours of on duty time to drive 348 hub miles. That's with me doing my demo pre trip/drive and the first couple and uncouple (1:33 minutes, 60 miles of driving, everything by the book and narrated). It took an hour and a half to back into a double wide spot at Verso, couple to a loaded trailer, and update his log. Most guys take an hour to do the same.

Appologies for the whine fest but they dont let me have wine in the truck.

Plus my cookies are dry.

 

I trained when I hauled garbage and it was local work and I still almost killed a few of my trainees.

"Before you make this sharp right turn, did you remember that you're hauling turnpike doubles and not bobtail?"

"We only need to make 5 turns on the entire and you missed 4 of them"

"That switch on the gear shift is the range selector"

"You have to release the brakes or we cant move"

"Yes , you have to do a pretrip and a post trip every single day and no you cant take a different truck because you think someone else did it, so you dont have to"

 

More reasons I always pretrip. Had to pick up a Watkins shepherd truck. Started pretrip got to air loss and it seemed a little much but it had been sitting for a while so I thought maybe things just needed to reset.

Moved it over to where I was parked. Shut her down with full air. Uncoupled the old truck and parked it. Got back in the ws truck and the secondary tank is flat empty.

Charge it back up to try to find the leak then take it to the shop. Turns out it had 2. One was a plastic line going to the front driver side airbag. Second was a leaking foot valve.

Do Your Pretrips People.

 

Also, I had found the leak on the plastic line but not the foot valve. Glad I took it into the shop since I lost 40psi in the five minutes it took to tell the shop about it.

As an aside, it turns out Jill pronounces Obetz perfectly. I think it may be the ONLY name that happens with

 

Huh,looks like SNI wants in on politics.
http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Sc...ut-GOP-Senate-run-in-Wisconsin-417486473.html