| matcat |
04-29-2009 02:33 PM |
Just to give an update, I am currently in KY, deliver this truck to the agent that is leasing it, then Friday I jump into a new truck with a small company out of GA (3 trucks, I will be the 4th). Everything worked out, I will have no interruption. I don't know what kind of truck it will be or has in it, but I know I will miss the big inverter, fridge, and microwave of the truck I am in now. Let's just hope it has a tripack or something on the new truck :).
I will be doing general freight again, which will kind of suck too, I kind of liked doing the crane loads. Not having to deal with shippers and receivers everyday that look at you like pond scum, people that actually where happy to see you there, going to odd and weird places you don't usually see or go to in a truck. I sort of think I will miss the maneuvering challenges too :) These construction sites taught me more about backing and tight quarter maneuvering then probably a few years of general freight could never give you.
But at the same time it will be nice to not have to unload every load :) Really sucked sometimes to unload 10,000 to 41,000 lbs of freight when it was 5 degrees outside, or 90 degrees outside, or it was raining/snowing cats and dogs.
I guess everything has it's pros and cons. For me as long as I am not with a coolie carrier, not tethered to a qualcomm with an idiot on the other end that texts like a 12 year old girl on a cell phone, and not being treated and paid like a slave, I will be happy enough :).
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