Superior Carriers

Finally got a load going west! I'm taking a load of mineral oil to Utah, nice 1800 mile run and not too bad on the weather side either. I had a load from Illinois to Ohio that was a pre-loaded trailer with a 1900 pickup time and 0900 delivery the next morning. That got me on the dark side, been running nights since then and now on this long run the 8/2 split, so much easier to run at night. There's really no stress, all the parking you want, no traffic at night, I enjoy it much more than running with the pack during the day. I deliver this load Monday morning in Price, Utah & already knocked it down to 1200 miles left so as long as the weather holds over the Rockies I should get there a little early. My home date is 12/20 so hopefully headed back after this load. I'm taking my 8 here in Missouri at a T/A on I-70, ran almost 400 miles since midnight and I'll be back on the road by 1600 today (Thursday) so I'll knock out another good chunk tonight. Good times!

 

Good luck with the hazmat, study those questions online & you’ll do fine bro. Fire away with your questions & I’ll answer to the best of my abilities. The pictures are for MYSTIK, as you can see there’s not much room so you have to be organized. I have a place for everything & I keep it organized. 3.5 hours is definitely too far for anything other than system work or maybe some regional out & backs. I live about 2 hours from my terminal in Lakeland. I try to answer any questions you have. It’s pretty easy work overall. The hardest part for me is dealing with the stress of finding a place to park and backing up and dealing with ########. It’s hard to rise above it sometimes. Most guys & gals at the places we deal with are nice & I always be as nice and friendly as I can to set the tone. It bothers me to hear how some truckers talk to other truckers & how little some care about our world and their fellow humans. I try to focus on the
Positives like a beautiful sunset or sunrise. It’s definitely hard out here man I ain’t gonna lie.

 

You’ll make some good money while you’re training it pays $20 an hour and most days you’re going to run at least 12 hours. You go out on the road with a trainer for at least 30 days and probably do some local time too but it all pays 20 bucks an hour. You’ll stay in a hotel every night. Superior is about the best company out there when it comes to Hometime you pretty much dictate how long you stay out and when you come home and how long you stay home. There’s no set time out equals home time formula here.You just have to give them at least a week notice for your home date. Give yourself a couple days buffer on that home date and be flexible and nice until it’s time to not be nice. They will drop a load on you the day before your home date because it’s going in that direction that’s why I say give yourself a couple days buffer. They run all 48 states as well as Canada and Mexico but mostly it seems I’m just east of the Rockies. You’ll do the Northeast but it’s not that bad. The worst thing about the Northeast is lack of truckstops and parking. Always make sure you go in there with a full tank and you might have to get creative on where you sleep at night. I hate going to the Northeast too but there’s some good runs That come out of there. You can contact him anytime but they’re just going to tell you to come back when you have CDL in hand. Pasadena is the busiest and biggest terminal we have so you should be able to stay busy. Good luck on everything man and hit me up with any other questions anytime.

 

Go ahead and apply online and I would contact the terminal manager as well since you already have your CDL. I did part of my training with no hazmat endorsement. I had passed the test but was waiting for the wheels to turn in the CDL to come in the mail. I did the same thing when I entered this career, did my research very thoroughly and boiled it down to flatbed or tanker. Flatbed would be cool but I didn’t wanna mess with tarps and lashing down everything. Tanker is a little more challenging to drive but it ain’t bad just got to take it really slow around corners ha ha!