Well Folks, I'm Leaving KLLM!!!

Just to let everyone know that I resigned from KLLM while on Hometime. I advised my Dispatcher and administration. I requested a load from the house to be brought to Jackson. I was given one of my regular loads that I get after hometime and took it to the Jackson yard and then turned in my truck. The truck was clean when I returned it, and was given my truck deposit back along with the pay for the load I took to Jackson.
I hated to leave after just 6 months, but I found that I really needed something closer to home right now. I was offered a job hauling locally and regionally, with an Owner Operator I've known. He has 7 trucks and hauls shipping containers out of the Ports and various other locations to locations around the state. He has all new or near new Freightliner FLD Classics and they are all asigned trucks. Several new routes will be starting in January and February to haul out of state, but it will be a day or so out, then back. Never on the road for more than a couple of days and most runs will have me sleeping in my own bed every night. I will be making at least the same amount of money and more once the new routes begin, so it was a driving job I feel I had to take. My actual goal has been and still is, to pull a tank, preferably Haz-Mat. That's what I hope to be doing someday. Anyway, KLLM has been good to me, but I just needed to be closer to home and family.

 

Yeah, I've noticed that. Maybe it's because most tankers have to be drivers for few years before they can pull a tank, and have settled in to their profession. Most everyone of the higher paying companies I've found require at least 3 to 5 years. Being a Suicide Jockey yankin' a tank full of fuel would be pretty cool. I was kind of thinking more toward the industrial stuff like chemicals and acids. I think the only thing I wouldn't want to pull would be an Atomic Bomb (Propane or LPG Gas) Yikes!!!

 

Yeah, read my previous posts. They were totally honest and up front on everything with me. My pay was correct every week, except for one, where I had a unloading fee of 200 bucks left off because I put the wrong code in the qualcomm. One phone call to payroll and it was put on my comdata card within 10 minutes.
I averaged about 2800 to 3500 miles per week, usually around 3000. I had a good late model truck that was well maintained, a good trainer after orientation, and decent runs, even though I would occassionally get stuck in the NorthEast for a week or two. But I would make a call to my dispatcher and tell her to get me outta there and usually I would get a run to Texas or Oklahoma and away from HELL. I had no real complaints, other than being away for 4 to 6 weeks was the best way to make better money. I have a local job now hauling shipping containers out of the Port and around the state or just across the borders and back. So I sleep in my own bed every night now. I would go back if I couldn't find a local job, and hope they would have me again. KLLM is a good starter company, with alot of long term drivers who have been there 10 and 20 years or more. I would go there before I tried any other company. When I would see the condition of some trucks out there with alot of other companies, or hear the horror stories from those drivers, it made me glad I was with KLLM.