So after dropping truck off at terminal in San Bernadino i was given a hotel room, okay thinking I would be right back out the next day and on the road. Next morning I call and find out that the truck will need to be looked at and that it wot be for a couple days. I call my DM and she gives the ok to head home.
6days later I'm back in the truck. I received 50.00 for every 24hrs i sat in the shop except for the weekend.
I get the truck and I'm given a load to run local, redlands to perris, walgreens DC. and deliver at 7pm.
Get done there at 1030pm and head to the yard for a drop/hook which goes to Phoenix.
Made the delivery at 6am and hit JB Hunt yard on 55th ave in Phoenix.
Get another load. Drop/hook deliver at 11pm. Allright, so I just woke up and now I have to go back to sleep and deliver late at night
issedoff::zzz:.
Slept and made the delivery. got another load. drop/hook and take to Fontana and make delivery ASAP.
While dropping trailer I get another load... Hook empty trailer and take to Colton Rail yard.
Head there and get loaded with 96drums. Take this load to Mounment Valley UT. While heading up 40 towards flagstaff... :eek2::tears: I start blowing black smoke, loosing a little power. At one point I get a shudder like it wants to shut off. I see a rest area and jump in there. Call Raod service and they tell me to keep going. :bow: I get a name and put it on my log book.
I got to Kayenta, AZ and shut down with a flat bed who is going to the same location. I told him about Arrow and he had heard the same thing from another arrow driver.
In Kayenta, AZ we stayed at a Burger King which has a dirt lot behind it for trucks. They also have a museum about WindTalkers. This city is on the Navajo Nation Rez. I would love to come back up here again and just explore.
Anyway...
Spoke to the customer who told me how to get to the Trading Post and that he would meet me there....:thumbsup: When we met he told me that he would take the flatbed first and then I could walk down the road to his house and see if I could turn around
As soon as the flatbed driver was out of my view he jumped on the radio, Dont come down here it's soft sand! I jogged down the dirt road to see the drives buried about 10in and his steers even worse. The customer was a homeowner and he was going to use this solid oil to make his own asphalt driveway. I helped dig the driver out along with the customer who used a little Kubota tractor to try and pull the flatbed out. We ended up dropping the trailer after the driver had jackknifed it and could not back up any furthur. So after being there 2.5hrs It was my turn but I was gong to try and back down the dirt path. I started to make the turn with the flatbed driver watching my drive tires and distance to the trailer. He stopped me and I jumped out, there was noway I could make the turn. I would have to be offloaded on the street. Flatbed driver thanked me and he took off.
I was finally empty around 3:30pm, we had arrived at 9am. I put in the empty call and received a load to DH to salt lake. I told dispatch no that I was going to Flagstaff. They came back with do this load and we can get you into shop afterwards. Told them no and that was one reason I had quit arrow, I wasn't going to play the do one more load before you go into the shop game.
I DH to Flagstaff freightliner. I went to a hotel and called the next morning. I was given a little bit of the runaround and called JB hunt. They made a call and the truck was brought in and looked at. I spent a total of 3nites in hotel. I now have a brand new Turbo and Exhaust Bellows, whatever that is.
After I came out of shop I DH back to CA was loaded and now have ran up here to Sumner, WA. I dropped this morning and I am back at the Tumwater Pilot at exit 99.
No problems with truck..... so far...:rofl::banghead:
I didn't do to bad.... paid miles was 1572 and my actual was 1668.
I did happen to speak with another JB driver who told me he had been driving about 8 yrs and was home every weekend with 32cents a mile. His faced dropped when I told him I was making 37cents but most of my time has been in the shop.
n the level 3. easy 25 bucks...
