Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="SlowPoke44magnum, post: 4047422, member: 28778"]I almost went to work for a company that used those small Pro Stars, Keller Trucking out of Defiance, OH, until I tried sleeping in the truck the night before I was to be dispatched out on my first load. I had to have the shop take out the passenger seat just so my fridge would even fit in the cab and there still wasn't enough room, virtually no storage space, not to mention the battery powered APU not actually keeping the truck cool enough to sleep in. When I laid down in the bunk, one elbow was against the back wall of the sleeper and the other was against the back of the drivers seat. I unloaded my stuff out of the truck and turned in my keys, fuel card, etc. and never looked back. There was no way I would have been able to live in that truck for two weeks at a time. I can hear some drivers saying just to suck it up and deal with it and I have in the past. I started off this career in a Transtar II cabover with no AC, no power steering, no power mirrors, etc so I have paid my dues and there are just certain things I won't tolerate anymore after 20 years in this business. Keller is one of those companies that sells it's ability to haul heavy loads, they claim 50,000 lbs in a 53' van and that comes at the expense of driver comfort.[/QUOTE]