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

we were raised to pay as you go, so that's how we've lived...which is why we owe no debt. When we by cars, etc. cash on the barrel...but again, that's just us...

 

Bobcat,you are in a minority group.
But i wished more people in the Western World were raised like that.

 

If everybody could learn from bobcat this country would be in a better condition, but anyways... where's dfob and his stories

 

Sounds like he's doing gravy runs and sleeping at home every night

 

Ha. LOL...not even a driver yet...go for training in a few weeks.

Grew up on a small South Texas cotton farm, picking by hand from the age of six until I graduated high school. Worked 15+ years as a carpenter. Worked 14 years straightening out the incorrigibles in a public school...just saying I've worked hard all my life...

but...yeah...i have slept in my own bed most nights...that's fixing to change...

 

Well I'll be finishing up the last of the "rinse and repeat" runs I've been doing today... it was fun trying it for a little over a week and I was home a LOT but it just doesn't pay well enough to continue doing it. Had a pretty large deadhead in between the loads that allowed me to run through home, but the deadhead just doesn't make it pay well enough. Got my eye on a new set of loads that I'm hoping I can string together on a regular basis,but I'm watching the load board to make sure they actually show up with the expected pickup windows before I start assigning the first load.

 

got tired of deadheaded from Garysburg?

 

sometimes that's what you gotta do.....try something and see how it works for a week or so. Then you kinda narrow it down as you go along.
Honestly, it probably takes a year or so just to figure out what works for you........all part of it.

Rock on, brother....

 

Exactly! It is a learning experience. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, that is how we learn. Just don't repeat them....

 

Well I think my mistake was veering off the path from my usual customers... lol. Grabbed this load yesterday that headed out of VA down to GA, not far at all from my previous delivery in NC. Ran all through the storms last night and got to the pickup, dropped the nice TA147 trailer I took in and... yep rolled out of there with a TA942. Beat to crap. DVIR'd by the previous driver as "NO DEFECTS"... LOL yeah right. Go to slide the tandems to a normal position (he didn't even take the time to lock them back in as the customer required, the handle was locked outwards when I checked it before coupling) and slide them just fine, but the pins won't lock. Screw around with it for 20 minutes and get it to where I'm comfortable enough to go down the road with it. Checked it again this morning during my pretrip and all but one of the pins had retracted to a position where I just wasn't comfortable going any further with it. Looks like something in the mechanism that extends/retracts the pins is worn out and settles out after bouncing down the road in a position where I'm not about to take it all the way down to GA in. I could redneck repair it to make it just fine but I don't think the DOT man would be too happy with my vicegrips. After spending an hour and a half back and fourth with SEM I brought it a mile up the road to a Petro shop that wouldn't touch it. They can't find me anything else reasonable to get it repaired so I'm trying to get support shift to let me relay it in the Wilson yard so I can just go find some other loads. Sucks, because this run and the next load I had planned were really good loads. But, I'm sure as hell not going to spend 2 days waiting to get SNI's equipment fixed, especially when as an IC I don't get paid breakdown pay. I wonder if SNI will be willing to pay me the 130 or so miles of the trip I did.