Starting New Job Monday

Ahhhh.... The good life indeed..

Anyhoo. I went to "orientation" (mostly geared for factory workers rather than truckers)today and got my first assignment for monday. I'm a goin' to New York City with a dump truck and a car in tow. Oh yeah, I almost forgot... A newbie with only 6 months exp will be following me... Whooptie Doo......


He's the other driver that they hired... An ex Swift and JB Hunt driver. I had to ask.. Why'd you quit Swift? His response was not different from anyone on this board. No miles and no money. Then his complaint with JB was no hometime.

ya know, I pick on these two companies all the time. I just didn't think I'd actually meet a real life punchline to all my jokes....

Gonne be a good week next week. Yep!

 

New york in a dump truck isn't that bad. We just gotta get em' up there and then we can fool around in NYC for a few hours. Then, I dunno about the noob, but I'm getting my happy patootie back south quickly. I know one thing, as soon as I drop off and get in the tow car, I'm going to find a Nathans Hot Dog Stand before I leave. FOR SURE!!

 

Amen to that sister!!!

I'm just glad to be back to work... NYC or not..

the way it works at R/S, you cannot turn down a load within your first 70 days, or you'll go home. Then it's 3 per year.. But, the way I see it, it's easy work. They don't push you to make an impossible delivery time, or anything like that. The only thing that they stress is cost effectiveness. Each department gets a nice bonus each month if the costs are kept down. I figure us drivers have it made come bonus time, since there are only 8 of us in P&D including the director of transportation and dispatcher. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

As far as hometime goes, I'm told that we'll be out and back usually with an overnight stay.

 

Hi all,

Well, my first trip went very well. I got in to work at 9:00 yesterday morning. I was surprised when they took me off the NYC run and gave me a run to Raleigh, NC. I delivered my truck and brought a frame back. I made it home at about 11:30 last night.

I have the day off, and will be leaving for Trenton, NJ tomorrow. So if anyone is travelling up that way and see a dump truck pulling a car, give me a yell on the CB.

 

Thanks Cerberus.

I'm laid over in Manassas, Va at the Holiday Inn tonight. I delivered in Lendover, MD. I had to drive what was possibly the ugliest color combination on a truck I've ever seen. It was a jet black Peterbuilt 379 with a banana yellow dump bed. This thing was set up to be a snow plow truck. I did have fun with all the strobe lights on it though...

But, all jokes aside, I'm pretty content with the digs here. I just wish my back would quit hurting. I'ts been sore since last Saturday when my son jumped on my back and pulled me down.