THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Thanks moosc! I will check out OOIDA's website for sure.

There seems to be a fair bit headed into the Roanoke area, as far as freight coming out of there it's hard for me to say at this point - I just don't know it well enough. There is a paper mill in Big Island (Kimberly-Clark I think?) I know they always have loads headed out from there but they are extremely heavy and usually headed to the Northeast. The loads headed elsewhere from there are fewer and far between and pay much less. Other than that like I said I'm really not too familiar with nearby customers we move freight for regularly out of that area.

I finally did get the 5th wheel figured out, you do have to pull up on the handle, then pull it out, then pull it up further to lock it in place. When you pull up on the handle it automatically moves the little latch out of the way. Unfortunately the final motion to lock the release handle all the way out usually involves your sleeve hitting the underside of the plate on the trailer which is usually covered with grime and grease.

The maintenance fee is deducted weekly (mine is 220/week)

Since the load got rescheduled and was out of my control they were happy to pull it from me. Nothing was mentioned to me about being charged for that, so lets hope not LOL. I highly doubt it though, the charge is really there for when IC's screw up and they have to bring in another driver from somewhere else to repower the load. From what was discussed during the training, it seems like they are willing to work with you as much as possible as long as you keep in constant communication with them about issues you are having that could affect the load.

 

Well made it down to Albany, GA from my pickup in NC today. It was a LONG day running hundreds of miles of 2 lane backroads through GA but honestly it wasn't too bad, just tiresome going through the little towns and varying speed a bunch.

I need to get my headlights adjusted, had several people flash me thinking I had my high beams on, and when I DO have my highbeams on they are illuminating the tops of trees (LOL)... I'm not kidding.

When I checked earlier after stopping through Charlotte, there wasn't much paying good heading away from this area, but there was this one little paper load that picks up tomorrow and delivers Friday AM that pays very good especially since its a 200 mile run, half of which is me deadheading to the pickup. The delivery puts me closer to Atlanta and there always seems to be freight headed out of there so hopefully I can catch something out of there on Friday morning after the delivery. But I don't really care where I get a load out of, I will deadhead across the country if I can find a load paying good enough to make up for the deadhead. Depending on how my hours look I may try to get back for a restart this weekend but honestly I don't think I will need it, especially since tomorrow will be a very short day with just that little run after I deliver in the morning. If I can I will probably try to run at least through Sunday so I can have a "full week" to total up my numbers and see how they look. So far everything is looking pretty #### good for my first week as an o/o. I'll post up numbers some time this weekend hopefully. Still trying to get an average on fuel mileage on this truck, hard to say since I killed it running backroads all the way from SC up to NC with that 78k paper load... that didn't help things too much.