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Originally Posted by jvnd1953
Gee dewercs2 thats not encouraging. I had a fairly good week. Monday I had a load of insulation panels for a cooler from Kysor in Fort Worth. I backed into the bay and saw stacks of these panels around it and wondered how they would get all of it on the trailer. Well they begin loading and put a 4 x 10 foot pallet 3 feet high close to the front. Then they do the same on the other side and tell me thats it. Total weight is 1100. 2 straps, single tarp, 30 minutes and I'm gone. The load goes to Omaha (748 mi) for Wed AM JIT. Get there early and am immediately unloaded. 1 hour later I get a load from Seward, Ne to Irving, Tx (709mi). I get there and I'm the 3rd truck in line. I'm waiting about 10 min when a forklift shows up with 10 pcs of 6in channel iron 10' long and sets it on my trailer. This is a 2' square load, 10 feet long with a weight of 2800. He then says "sign here" and no tarp:lol2: This is another JIT load for Thursday and of course I'm early. The fork lift was waiting for me to unstrap before I parked. Unbelievable! I go to the Dallas terminal and at 1700 I get a load from Fort Worth Tower to Lamar, Co (650mi) to pickup Fri. 1000hrs. I get there at 0800 and the preloaded trailer is ready (bummer losing my aluminum for a steel, hate the steel trailer) and it's to deliver Mon. AM JIT. I'm currently sitting at the Flying J in Amarillo watching 2 lot lizards at work. My wife said the doctor called and my shoulder xray showed no problems but I need to see the Orthopedist because I'm still having a lot of pain and the pills don't work. Well I hope my luck holds up. Take care and drive safe. dewercs2 don't forget your safety bonus next pay check.
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All was going good till I got here and I had to stop and re read....:smokin: I guess I missed the period between the two sentences.....
The week was not good all I had was a 280.00 check. I was not happy:badmood:
This week is looking like a little better maybe 400.00 but still not good. I have heard a tidbit of info and not sure if it's true or not but I'm holding out for a couple weeks to see what happens.
I've been talking to a few drivers with more years under their belts and all are saying pull out of flatbed and get into a box fleet. I just don't want to have to bump a dock at 2am and wait 8 hrs to get loaded. I need to talk to more of these drivers, especially reefers to find out the scoop.
I met a new driver that came to the yard yesterday. He walks up and introduced himself and went on to tell me about how he was hauling dirt in belly drop trailers but the work has dried up.
He told me that he was in a orientaion class of 40plus people in Tulsa. :eek2:
He walked over to his truck and saw that he was missing all the chains, couldn't get into the tarp box and he had a couple bald drive tires. I tried to help him with the tarp box but it wouldn't open with the key he had. He spent the next couple hours bouncing between the office and truck. As I was pulling out of the yard he came over and told me that he was told he needed to take the truck to a tire shop and get the tires replaced but not to do this till monday since Arrow wouldn't have the money to pay for the tires. He told me he was starting to get a bad feeling about Arrow and that he might just quit now... I shook my head and told him good luck and drove off. I wonder what he will do....