The ramblings of a rookie

Stay safe and keep the shiny side up driver!

 

Glad to hear it from all the usual suspects and that youre all doing alright. Slim its good to hear you're still liking the local work. I question my choice to step away from water on a regular basis. Theyve done good to keep me home lately though.

Hit the road today and headed up north to load. Ended up loading for lisbon, nh and running that down, which puts me on my first night in the truck in 2 or 3 weeks. Hanging out at the p&h truck stop in wells river, vt for the night. Hoping the storm isnt too terrible because i have to run empty up to the canadian border for my backhaul. Kinda nice being here though, i used to eat here when i lived in vermont. Its like a little piece of another life, so im pretty relaxed.

Hope everybody stays safe with the storm coming through.

More to come... At some point lol

 

Just another run of the mill update here. Finished the Vermont run in my last post, and headed to amesbury, ma to deliver. Ran back to the shop from there and got myself a treat lol.

We had some triaxle loads that needed to be moved, and being that my truck isn't permitted for out of state triaxle loads, I got back into my old Western star - the deer Slayer itself from post number one- and hit the road for a few days. Big lumber load to Mass, logs coming back

#### didn't it feel good to have all that power and my 18spd back!! I'm back in my road truck.now though. Went home for the weekend and I've been out both nights this week so far running back and forth to Mass. It's tentative as of yet but next week I may have an Ohio run, which will be a nice change of pace. We will see what happens.

Life is improving on my end. Definitely been in a bit of a funk the past few months but things are looking up!

I hope everybody is doing well

Stay safe out there

 

And the rookie rambles on...

Another "milestone" the other day. I've now been working for the same employer 9 full months now. Things are still going well. despite some hiccups with communication I'm pretty happy to be here. I take pride in who I work for and that's a nice feeling.

I left home today for independence Ohio, which should make for a nice ride. I don't officially start the week until tomorrow but I ran it down to the kittery truck stop on the state line for a 4 hour head start. I actually did some grocery shopping and stocked my truck this week, which I've really been neglecting. It'll be nice not to eat my paycheck on the road this week haha.

My new truck has arrived from Freightliner, so this should be my last week in my international. I have mixed feelings on that one. It's a 60" midroof cascadia specced heavy so we can do triaxle loads with it. I wouldn't mind the smaller bunk (going from a 73" high top international LT) but its kinda a bummer to lose my top bunk. I enjoy bringing people on the road. I'm sure it'll be a decent ride though. It won't be ready for a week or so while it gets lettered and has the headboard installed etc.

Now I'm off to have some dinner (in my truck) and be lazy till morning.

Stay safe out there. Keep the shiny side up.

More to come later