Taking another swing at it

All it takes is a bad day to make a rash decision or poor choice.
I'm glad I didn't let a bad day dissuade me from my goal.
Yes it's frustrating at times, but I refuse to start over or quit when I have so much time invested.
I have to see it through just on principle. To walk away would just prove the haters are right, and that is a satisfaction I refuse to be responsible for.
No, I will truck on, and put the bad road behind me and see what's to come. 9 more months and it's mine. That's the endgame. Just need to refocus. I could use a reset on hours too.

 

Yeah, I'm covering a load for another driver tomorrow going to CT. It's a 247 mile cover, but policy is minimum 300 miles a day. So that's 300 more I didn't have, and I'm booked on a nestle water load back to Michigan. That's a 300 mile deadhead...paid.
I don't think % rates pay deadhead miles at all do they?

 

Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who, and let move on to better things.
Point being a % driver is not paid for DH miles. The load has to be enough up front to make it worth the run to go pick it up.
I think we are all agreeing on this with different terminology .
Moving on.
Griffins win to force a Game 5 vs the Lake Erie Monsters! Yay.

 

While I'm trying to stay positive and muscle forward, I can't help but notice my settlement getting smaller every week. It's enough to stay afloat, but enough to earn my attention as well.
I'm going to have to have a sit down meeting with the GM and planner. (The old planner quit , so there is a big shake up in office and it's obvious inexperience is showing)
All I have ever asked for is consistency and honesty.
I realize you can't predict when freight will pick up or slow down , but we need to spread the good lanes around.
I'm noticing way too many brokered backhauls. There should be preloaded contract runs that go back, there was 2 years ago. Why not now? Or maybe there is and they are swallowed up by the over abundance of trucks that are on "special" accounts.
My check engine light has been on for 4 months. I write it up every time, yet since they can't figure it out and the truck still runs, it's dismissed as nothing.
Well, I don't like it.
By golly I need to go fishing.