Yet another Swift recruit

There's drivers out there that play Xbox in the cab instead of watching movies. I guess I've been passed up by a generation of youngsters. I have to admit that I would be lost without an iPhone and iPad. I've gotten to be a big apple fan. With that being said I can still remember playing Galaga at the mall arcade with no shirt on smoking a cigarette and listening Blue Oyster Cult and Styx. I should have taught a college class on grooming the proper mullet

 

By all means, get you an iPad. If I could only have two electronic things in my truck they would be an iPhone and iPad. I'm actually on my second iPad now. I got the iPad mini a couple of months ago and actually like it better than the regular size. I still have my laptop (MacBook) to do big things like download movies and television shows, burn music CDs, and the like, but I use the iPad for everything else. I use it for trip planning, saving any kind of company correspondence, taking pictures and videos of things you have to see to believe, and anything else you can think of. It's definitely worth the money. An added bonus of the iPad mini is that you can carry it into the outhouse for entertainment if you have to work on your "drivers daily log."

By the way- I saw where you got your call so congratulations! Remember what you have learned so far and be ready to learn the REAL lessons of being a truck driver. It's going to be tough with a trainer at times, but just stick it out and you will be solo before you know it.

 

Talk about close encounters- I was at the Pilot in Nashville early this morning around 5:00 for fuel. Hung around for about 30 minutes, then took off for Buffalo, NY. Heavy-set white chick with dark brown hair was the cashier. Black dude wearing a white Tennessee titans hat asking for help to get a bus ticket to Memphis. I was the tall, dark, and handsome drink of water wearing a dark green Carhartt tee shirt, khaki cargo shorts, gray and green Nike shoes, and a green John Deere hat (I know, I'm eye candy). We might have crossed paths. That would have been neat.

Otherwise, it sounds like you are rolling right along. Good to hear your mentor is a good dude. That makes all the difference in the world. I know the flying j in Joplin. One of the better flying j's if you ask me, but I'm a cheap date. Saw Werner back into an O/O there once, prompting what I believe to be one of the best fist fights I have ever seen. (Werner lost, btw).

 

Joplin is an ok place. The Petro is one of the better ones. It could be worse. You could be in Newark on a Friday evening with a Monday appointment. There's a reason why you never see someone winning a trip to Newark on the Price is Right.