Well not really new to the board, I've been lurking for a long time now! When i first came to this site a was working as a carpenter and hated it. Thanks to all you guys I made the move to driving. Currently driving a mixer which I love, but will being going over the road on the 15Th... Just wanted to say thanks and we'll so how well all of your advice works out..

 

Good Luck

 

How sweet, fresh meat! :twisted:

J/K and welcome!

 

Too funny FBN..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

gooser,
Best of Luck to you.........who are you going OTR with?

 

I wish you all the best gooser. OTR can be great given the chance. Hope you get hooked up with a good company. Drive safe. :wink:

 

good luck hope you have fun out there

 

so, what company are you going with? let us know how things go out there :!: BOL

 

I'll be going with TMC. I think the flat bedding aspect will be fun, keep you on your toes at least. Driving the mixer is cool you get to slump your loads and wash it down every time you get loaded. I just thought I'd get a little lazy driving a van.

 

not true, maybe with a flatbed you get to tighten straps once in awhile and the worst is put a 150lb tarp on your load in the rain and wind ohh icestorms too, I pulled a reefer unit for a year and going to Sysco and FSA all the time with 44000 lbs of miixed frozen product that YOU have to unload with a pallet jack then break it all down to their specs onto 3 different sizes of palletts all within an hour of time in a 0 degree chilled building. This will get you out of the truck too, not all van pullin is lazy work, just the lazy drivers out there that are well LAZY.... Its all if you like working in the outdoors in weather with your load or inside a dry building...

 

Sorry for that generalization, I don't know first hand how much work pulling a reefer is, but I can only imagine!! In my post I was was refering to a dry van, pretty much drop and hook.. apologies