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There are a lot of factors that can figure into how many miles you average weather, location, fright, DM, account, and the biggest of all the Driver his self. You see guys all the time sitting around a terminal whining about how they don't have a load. Yet some how they cant manage to get off their duff walk up to the dispatch window and say "Hay got any locals that need done while I'm waiting on a load?". I guess their to good or something. The point being money is money doesn't matter if its a local load or long haul. Second, do a favor get a favor (just never expect one!) if you do locals for the dispatcher they will remember your name in a good way. Now for the guy who's about to point out that doing a local will burn off your HOS. Yea it will but guess what the guy who saved his hours made ZERO dollars. The one did the local run made anywhere from 60$ to 200$. Ok so now the dispatcher hooks him up with a load (because he did the local) but he doesnt have the hours. Odds are the dispatcher is not going to pull that load and give it to the other guy. Hes going to leave the one who did the locals on it and just make some calls. So the next day the driver who did the locals rolls out with a load while the first driver is still sitting at the same table pissing and moaning about how he still don't have a load.

ALLWAYS BE PROFESSIONAL!!! A few weeks ago I was in a terminal while the truck was being serviced. There was a young driver in there say mid to late 20's been driving all of six months. He was whining because his DM told him that he "needed to be more professional". His comment "I don't need to be professional, I'm a truck driver they pay me to move fright not to be professional". I laughed at him shook my head and said "Yea your going to go real far". If you PO your DM your going to have a lot of problems. I know that when someone gets an attitude with me I don't feel very inclined to help them or do anything for them for that matter.

 

You mean they use this to calculate optimum heart rate, right? To get the actual, they would use the monitor. They then compare the optimum to your actual heart rate?

 

They do monitor your heart rate while your doing the work well test. That formula is how they figure out what your max heart rate can be while your doing the tests. If you go over then you fail.

200-36X.9= 147.6 so if I was to take the tests right now my heart rate couldn't go over 148. There are things you can do to help yourself like not using caffeine or nicotine until after you have taken the BP and work well tests.

 

OK, that makes sense. By the way, I have seen the word tweeker a number of times over the past week. It is totally new to me. What does the word mean?

 

Its a term used in some areas for meth addicts. It can also be used when talking about making after market adjustments to things like tweeking a radio or computer.

 

Yes, I have been using the term as a verb for many years, but I have not yet seen it morphed into a noun as you used it until the other day--and then all of a sudden I saw it 3-4 times inside of a few days.

 

/e smells someone working up a story

 

Will find out when I go through everything next month.