Winter Driving Stories

2/6 days not 6/6 due to the over weight load. In retrospect it wouldn't have mattered because the load was legal until the lumber soaked up 1400lbs over night in a rain storm. I don't take #### from anyone. Especially abusive trainers. I know you didn't blow any doors off with that 62 mph chrome turd.

I am very happy I worked for them. It was a great experience starting out In the industry. I saw so much more than a tmc driver ever will because I stayed out for months instead of 5 days and pulled Od loads a tmc driver could never dream of stuck pulling JD tractors. So yes my situation is completely my fault. They paid me so horribly I could afford to spend 3 grand on a fridge and freezer for my truck and 2 grand on a gaming laptop and still have enough money to sit until next summer.

I must really be a dang fool. You sure taught me.

 

Well now that me thinks of it.....I wish I was a true North American driver.....which would encompass ALL of NORTH AMERICA.....therefore w/My Seniorority......ill take the 2x a week Monterey to Cancun turn fer the Winter&spend my down time drinking Marguritas w/the Senioritas.....with Salt of Course.....wouldnt want it to Freeze now would I?......LMAO

 

I probably won't do it again. After a year and a half running random freight almost everywhere between FL and Ak I've figured out where I like and where I don't. I'll probably just run SD and a couple surrounding states from here on out.

 

3 Grand on fridge and freezer and another 2 on a gaming laptop. Keep posting you look more and more foolish every time you do. If you knew your load was legal before it rained on it why doid you scale it again ? What kind of lumber were you hauling that didn't require tarps that would soak up that much water? Green or Pressure Treated wouldn't soak up that much. I think your whole story of quiting is BS they probly let you go.

 

I like having nice thing and i can afford nice things. So... I have nice things.

I know the load was legal through the process of reasonable deduction. They claimed the lumber was treated and told me not to tarp it although it did not have the slots or coloring of normal pressure treated wood. I think it was just seasoned or dried lumber. Irregardless, My first scale ticket was 80,120 lbs with 1/4 tanks and a little bit of rain on the lumber. With an APU i can legally scale 80,400 no problem. The next morning i got in touch with another driver for the same company who i gave my tarps to figuring if i got 600 lbs off i would have no trouble at all topping off the tanks and running legal. Now this was during the torrential rains in West Memphis the same day as that 2 fatality pile up in front of the Walmart a couple weeks ago.

I get the 600 lbs in tarps off the next morning and re scale, but now i weigh 80,700 lbs. Well this doesn't make much sense so dispatch in disbelief requests i scale it again about an hour later. I scale it again and an hour later i now weigh 80,820 lbs because the torrential rains have not slowed a bit. I'm still only filed up to the 1/4 tanks i had when i parked the truck in the TS the night before and scale for the first time.

If i got fired it would far more sense for me to say nothing on here rather than make up this story. I even have pictures of qualcomm messages stating I'm quitting in the other thread.

If you won't believe pictures as proof and won't believe what i say then their is really no reason to continue this conversation. If you believe everything i say to be false then why listen to anything i say at all... We certainly can't have a conversation if you don't believe what I'm saying for the same reason i quit my company. A working relationship is built on trust. The second they showed they didn't trust me with the Qualcomm message asking for pictures of proof that i've done my job i've been doing flawlessly for a year and a half i quit. Without trust there is nothing.

This will be my final response to you on this thread on this topic as this is not the place for such debates. If you have any further issue with me please send it via PM or post it in the other thread. I will not take any further part in the hi-jacking of this thread.

 

Why not, you didn't seem to mind jackin the thread with the other 75 or so posts. I get your point that the ice is not as slippery at colder temps but, after reading all the posts I came to realize why you're sitting around scratchin your unemployed ###.
I doubt that a no it all who walks around with his chest stuck out all the time will last very long as a grain hauler either. Sorry friend but, you strike me as a person who finds a way to end up in a pissing match everywhere he goes. Good luck with it.

 

Coming north from Plattsburgh, NY this AM pulling my empty step deck, I made a wrong turn onto RT 374 instead of staying on RT 190 to Rt 11. I wound up seeing Saranac lake and Adirondack State Park with ~1 ft of fresh snow. What a ####### move that was.

I thought of this thread LOL.

 

You ran that no less than 60 mph, right?

It's the times you get off route or into conditions that are a bit over your head that you really learn how to handle a rig. Good thing you made it through. Must have been quite a sight.

 

I did a similar bonehead move last week in CO. Got to my shortcut off US 50 which had been plowed, slowed way down and it looked like the plows had been down CO 69. NOT! Only about 1/8 of a mile. My excuse was it was still kinda dark. That was a long 70 miles to Walsenburg! I must confess I did not come to a complete stop at the stop sign in Westcliffe.

 

It was OK. The plows were out so there was some asphalt to look at here and there. It was just funny as heck because I left a perfectly dry road to climb over this stupid snowy mountain. I thought to myself "This must be what The Ramlingman does."