[Bigmon]

The world famous LaCosta Resort & Spa is in Carlsbad. If freight is slow hang there and live it up. I only live 45 minutes from there. It's the place to be in that area.

Originally Posted by Bigmon

The world famous LaCosta Resort & Spa is in Carlsbad. If freight is slow hang there and live it up. I only live 45 minutes from there. It's the place to be in that area.

I just checked it out. At $275 to $1,500 per night I think I'll stay at LaFlyingJ Roach & Spit. lol

Looks like I'll be chaining up again going over the mountains in Colorado. At least no secondary off road on this trip!!!

[Nomad_]

Well done Steve! One of the better reads I’ve had for a while on this board. I usually just scan over most posts. This one I took word-for-word. I was vicariously getting "white knuckles". You were brutally honest, so the read was even more insightful. As you said, you got hammered right off the bat (thrown into the proverbial fire). So you have many reference points for the future. It’s as if you were practicing with a 16 pound shot put for those 3 weeks and now you are throwing 12 pounders (great achievement/confidence builder). Hence things should get easier.

The most impressive thing is you only lost 6 pounds (applaud, applaud). I was actually wondering how much weight you may have lost before you shared that info.

Anyway, congrats, you are a bigger man than me.

Also, did you ever visit the DIGITAL/SCI building in Augusta Maine during your stint with Digital? That is where I am working. The building has been reclaimed and renamed.

Ya, everyone is concerned about my weight loss. It's 8 pounds total now and I have no idea why. I'm 6'1" and 192 pounds and like my weight the way it is so I've been pigging out on Chinese food and nachos this week which I normally don't eat. Getting use to the afternoon naps too!!

I just got a FedEx delivery of 10 hams from the customer for delivering that crane to Maine and being there on time!!! I guess the construction company who buys a lot of these cranes to install has bad luck with transportation companies in the past. If the company can't get an independent they hire one of the big firms which don't seem to meet the commitments. I understand it's the company and not the drivers. They say yes to anything but the drivers are still 500 miles away on another job.

I've never worked in any of the Digital plants. I started in Software Services right out of college and worked out of small satellite offices.

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

I just checked it out. At $275 to $1,500 per night I think I'll stay at LaFlyingJ Roach & Spit. lol

Looks like I'll be chaining up again going over the mountains in Colorado. At least no secondary off road on this trip!!!

Try and get to a In - N- Out Burger when you get in SoCal.

[geomon]

Steve,
You might look at routing yourself the southern route using I40...may be longer mileage but no up and over the "fuel-sucking/time robbing/chain adding" Colo Rockies.

Originally Posted by geomon

Steve,
You might look at routing yourself the southern route using I40...may be longer mileage but no up and over the "fuel-sucking/time robbing/chain adding" Colo Rockies.

Ya know, I think I will go that way. I just checked it out and 81 to 40 will be something different. Thanks!

[rank]

Hey $1.60 is too cheap Steve. I don't know about the long haul stuff but we do 400-500 miles from the NEast into Ontario and it's $2.00 MINIMUM. That's no tarps and no mountains.

I did some quick math based on your epic novel. If your 3 week odyssey grossed you $10,000 and you spent $4,000, you're left with $6,000 ($2,000/wk). Don't forget:

$300/wk to pay for the depreciation on the truck ($75,000/5 years)
$50/wk for the trailer dep. ($25,000/10 years)
$200/wk for maitenance ($10,000/yr)
$100/wk for insurance ($5,000/yr don't know how you got that rate!)

Take all this from the $2,000 and you're down to $1,250/wk. And you got $3/mile on parts of the last trip. $1.60 on the way out....what are you going to take to get back home? And dead miles?

Not criticizing or playing God......just my opinion.

-Rank

[Kintama]

Originally Posted by rank

Hey $1.60 is too cheap Steve. I don't know about the long haul stuff but we do 400-500 miles from the NEast into Ontario and it's $2.00 MINIMUM. That's no tarps and no mountains.

I did some quick math based on your epic novel. If your 3 week odyssey grossed you $10,000 and you spent $4,000, you're left with $6,000 ($2,000/wk). Don't forget:

$300/wk to pay for the depreciation on the truck ($75,000/5 years)
$50/wk for the trailer dep. ($25,000/10 years)
$200/wk for maitenance ($10,000/yr)
$100/wk for insurance ($5,000/yr don't know how you got that rate!)

Take all this from the $2,000 and you're down to $1,250/wk. And you got $3/mile on parts of the last trip. $1.60 on the way out....what are you going to take to get back home? And dead miles?

Not criticizing or playing God......just my opinion.

-Rank

Kind of what I was saying in my post.

[Rev.Vassago]

Well put both of you, and well ignored by Steve. :wink: