Where is everyone?

I totally forgot about that....I have seen step conestogas but always wondered how they rolled the tarp past the step?

 

you can put a chain on the hook of your strap and chain it to your rails to gain some extra feet. Kind of hillbilly, and you have to be a little concerned about it going slack and the chain falling out, but it can be done !

 

Pilot, Plymouth, IN

 

home for my 34 hours off...well close to it at least.

headed with a short load of tarped lumber to Scranton pa on a 53 foot open flat, one of our local drivers is unloading my 50 foot beams in my sidekit, then hes going to tear down and stow my kit, load me a load of fully tarped fiber board and relay it up to me somewhere between Scranton and Pittsburgh so I can take it up to bedford NH.

I wouldnt want to be that local driver, thats a ton of work for him to do, I have a steel tarp on the back of those beams because they stuck out of the back of my sidekit about 4 feet aswell, I feel bad for him...

 

I'm sure the local driver is paid hourly??? If so, it's all in a days work for him.

 

Negative, hes paid a fixed rate for everything he does, tear down a kit, tarp a load, detention for load time if over 2 hours, if not he gets a set rate, then he's paid 24$ (i think) for ever 52 miles he runs on the day, it's a really messed up pay scale but its the same scale that we work off of as road drivers except we get paid mileage + set rates for everything we do, such as all I listed above, sleeping a night in your truck, lay overs, etc.

It's kind of tough to get used to but in the end its nice to get paid for everything you do...

 

Notre Dame vs Alabama?

 

I have been at home In Olympia,wa for the past week. I should have a load heading east Monday but it all depends on when and/or if the consignee will be open when I get there otherwise it ill load up later in the week. I might get to enjoy close to Thanksgiving at home