Same goes here. Gave up my cushy mail run for a local fuel hauler. The big trick is to not come home stinky, but it seems like that will only happen if i screw up. I prefer the "home every night" rather than the "out 1-6 days" I got at Transwood. Nothing wrong with that company, just not my bag, baby.

What about you, Carlo? I'm just a casual lurker here, but you seem to be one of the prime movers here. We're all curious when you decide to make a big move.

"I wont need any matches Rob i have a lighter . how else are you suppose to look down in the tanks? "

I saw one version of this vid (the shell station) on youtube, and the caption claimed the guy was up there using a cell phone. Yeah, sure.

Jay....I think he wants a "puke green" one.....:clap::clap::clap::smokin:

Good luck with new gig!!

They do come in different colors, but i thought the red would match his new truck. when he goes back to cheap food-grade. after the cr engl, , deal doesn;t work out . LOL
and no carlo i didn't lose my helmet or sippy cup. i just can;t remember where i left them . and they have let the windows down on the bus so i am having a hard time licking them. keep getting my tongue stuck.
and just think i haul 9200 gallons gas.

Glad to hear ya got it Jay! Man, what is it with y'all and the whole C.R.E. deal? Sounds to me that y'all are really bucking for that company, so perhaps ol' Grandpa and Soundman11568 (see, proper spelling Jay lol) should precede me to fill me in on what I can expect there and all the big $$$ I cam make there! Hahahahahahahahahaha......

:moon:

Naw, think the next truck is going to be blue, or red, or maybe even gray or white. Hmmmmm, that should make it a little harder for you to figure out where I'll be at!!! Jerky.....

:lol:

Don' needs to precedes y'all...dat be a eezy kwestion to answer...... STARVATION WAGES combined with BANKRUPTCY!!:p

Naw...we'll know where you is all da time..... "In da slacker zone"!!:clap::clap::clap:

Naw...we'll know where you is all da time..... "In da slacker zone"!!

yes we have to remember carlo is the Grand pooba of slackers.

skywalker i have pics of his new truck i'll try and post them later .

A pic of carlo's new truck or is it Robs aka skywalker first truck .

Sticking with Superior for a while. I don't want to miss the training on how to fill out a log book and do a correct pre/post-trip.

I had a couple of them TMC inspections. The only question was about my silicone Party Doll. I told them that the USA and Canadian
customs were cool that it was NOT a passenger. That put their minds at ease. Oh yeah, and the Astro Slide is not a banned substance by either Canadian or USA DOT. Seems my filthy truck has affected my mind :)

Also want to see if my system flies with the new GPS log auditing. It's nothing spectacular. Just testing the envelope and keep my head from turning to total mush.

Jobs are out there. But the Little Filly (aka Super Model) is nagging me to stay put for a while. I guess she's killing time (in between photo shoots) enjoying the med/dental benefits.

In the meantime, I keep plugging away. The apex of my Superior career seems to have been achieved. I get 1800 - 2100 miles per week. I can run for months on end and not need a 34-hour. I am one efficient em effer!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::lol2::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I contributed to our safestat demise today. Got a "level 2 hazmat check" at the Ga weigh station on I 85 North of Atlanta. All they could find was a placard obscured by the placard holder on the side and one on the back that wasn't perfectly vertical. I fixed the side ones with my seal cutters right in front of Barney Fife but he still wrote it up. This was a dedicated trailer that gets top loaded and the placards stay on it permanately.

did you happen to drop that hot trailer at cognis in charlotte,nc? i picked up an empty today that had the same placards. i'm new to this posting replys so bear with me.thanks!:thumbsup:

Nope its dedicated out of High Point. The run is from Dupont in Hopewell Va to Oxide in Houston Tx. Trailer is top loaded and never cleaned.

I have heard from some differant people that Ga. has said. To stop with the warning tickets and just go for the money. They have a budget shortfall and have instructed all Barney Fife's to wright as many money tickets as possiable and not issue any warnings. To help releave said shortfall.:rofl: So if any of you have been around the loop in Atlanta latley you should have seen Barney and his buddies working it hard very hard and not just Cobb County. I went from I-75 to I-20 last week and counted 19 super troopers working there tails off and I didnt count Cobb county.
Driver told me he lives in area and for a week they have been telling everyone to be good on the loop as enforcement has been steped up and no warnings all tickets.
We all know who will be the ones helping fund there budget........:hellno:

can we say pre-trip inspection should have caught that placard . hmm carlo where is grandpa . haven't heard from him in awhile

I am sure that's what management will say. I should have insisted that the customer scrape them off and replace them.

The truth is this is a dedicated trailer and the placards have been on it for years. They never come off as the tank is top loaded and never cleaned. Would you have scraped it off and demanded a new one for 1/8 inch off of vertical. This customer ships several loads a week and its 2500 miles round trip.

Honestly I was more concerned withtwo bald flat spots on the trailer tires that I had replaced before pulling it. They were bad and more than a couple of drivers pulled that trailer with those tires.

what ever happened to ky 24

why cant superior get some nice trucks, if altom can do it why cant superior. im getting tired of driving a 03 model with five hundred thousand miles on it.

KY 24 was tending to personal matters last I spoke with him.

Altom, C.T.L., Coal City Cobb, Dana, Enterprise, Heniff, Highway Transport, Miller, and Schneider all have nicer trucks at least in the department of storage and room for the most part. But wait, Superior is getting all of those Prostars! How many times can you hear the excuse that having small-sleeper trucks are because of a weight issue??? :rofl:

Hmmm, all of the above mentioned companies have larger sleepers and also, with the exception of Miller, carry their hoses on the back of the trucks. Seems they have no issues hauling 45,000 lb. of product. I could see if we were contracted to carry 47,000 lb. consistently but Superior isn't. It's all about saving $$$, and I'm sure that with all of the new games being played, er, "rules" they'll save even more when the driver force starts shrinking due to getting tired of the b.s.

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i agree,the issue seems to be the cheap way out. if they ever start screwing with our idle times when sleeping or waiting for next load, i'll be at a local gas hauler the next day. i have never grossed any where close to max so far, like most trucking companies just a pay check.:thumbsdown:

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i agree,the issue seems to be the cheap way out. if they ever start screwing with our idle times when sleeping or waiting for next load, i'll be at a local gas hauler the next day. i have never grossed any where close to max so far, like most trucking companies just a pay check.
1Catfish
Now thats funny , if you can get a local job hauling gas , then why are you still driving OTR . how much experience do you have pulling tankers? most fuel haulers want several years.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy working here to a degree and feel that I'm still making good $$$, even when most of my work as of late has been local stuff, but I'm also not going to lie..... I'm leaving!!!

This is due primarily to personal issues I have with the company and with operations, and then there's also the level of company politics that are going around, many of which I believe stem from the area/terminal I'm operating from. They simply have exceeded my tolerance level. I've been afforded an opportunity I cannot pass up, and that's where I'm going. It simply will give me more freedom as a driver with much less "company politics" b.s. concerning nitpicking, nickle-and-dime rules and regs (especially those that have absolutely no impact on doing my job safely and efficiently), and allow me to still make the income I need along with the time off I require. 'Nuff said!

Superior Carriers (January 1, 2009 to June 28, 2009)
Gross Pay: $26,118.97
Hub miles: 51,498 (Avg.: .507/mile)
Days Working: 122 (68%)
Days Off: 57 (32%)

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i'm glad you got a laugh, as far as the experience part,i have enough not to care what you think.:zzz:

Exactly where in the Regs does it say the thing has to be perfectly vertical. Seems like a chicken shat ticket that is worth appearing on - if you have the time.

catdick i am glad you don't care what i think, i just ask a simple ? i haul fuel and the good companies want drivers with atleast 5 years exp. or more. i am sure there are others on here that will back me up on that . from what you have said on here , you don't seem to have alot of tanker experience. so go back to being a BBR in your old little blue truck . , oh wait my truck is a 03 model too, a 379 ex. hood pete, with a 475 cat. 10sp that can do the speed limit and then some . it's a day cab too .

I am about $10K behind last year @ $25.5K. I'll ride the thing out till the economy picks up.

[QUOTE=sooundman11568;455393]catdick i am glad you don't care what i think, i just ask a simple ? i haul fuel and the good companies want drivers with atleast 5 years exp. or more. i am sure there are others on here that will back me up on that . from what you have said on here , you don't seem to have alot of tanker experience. so go back to being a BBR in your old little blue truck . , oh wait my truck is a 03 model too, a 379 ex. hood pete, with a 475 cat. 10sp that can do the speed limit and then some . it's a day cab too .[/QUO

I didn't get a ticket so there is nothing for me to fight. I forwarded those pictures to my Terminal Manager in case Superior wants to contest the write up for the Safe Stat score. No way those placards make the truck less safe.

i'm sorry, sometimes my old age and being tired of anything to do with log books and regulations, might give you the wrong idea. it took me awhile and many braincells, but what i trying to say was i did'nt want to go through hassle of being carded in 5 or 6 different loading racks. or say you sit in line with 8 other trucks to find out you can load your regular,but the premium is out, so you get to go to another supplier to get the premium. or you get to a loading rack and the ulsd alotment is used up. so don't get disturbed at the drop of the hat. think outside the box.

Sorry to hear this though the hints over the past few weeks haven't been real subtle It is truely Superiors loss. Any idea how many drivers you have recruited to the company over the years? I certainly hope you will start a new thread for your new company. Me personally I am happy and unless major changes happen at the terminal management level will continue to be so. Thanks for steering me towards Superior and Tankers in general a couple of years ago when I got started Trucking.

Hope u weren't MT when it happened. I understand it's a dedicated trailer. But I always rip them hot placards off as soon as I am MT. I just don't believe in attracting unnecessary attention.

OK, do we all add laser levels to our toolboxes?

Don't really know a good fuel hauler from a bad. But KAG requires 2-years of experience.

I was MT. It would have taken a razor blade to get it off.

I have run into problems with placards on this same load before. It originates from High Point but starts out pulling the empty 200 miles up to Hopewell Va to top load the dirty trailer. They give you a copy of the last bill of laden for that purpose. It runs loaded to Houston then MT back to High Point.

One Saturday I went to pick up my MT on the yard only to find both types of Placards missing on 3 sides. Of course there are none at the terminal. I wound up fishing used ones out of the trash can at the tank wash, and drawing them with a sharpie. I was happy to see the stuck on permanent ones. Who knows what Barnie would have had to say about hand drawn ones

i don't remember saying anything about pete's or hoods or cats or trucks that go over the speed limit, but i'm the bbr. hey i got a couple of stray cats that sleep on my porch does that qualify?

Wsyrob wrote:I don't know about all of that! I really doubt that they care about losing yet another driver. They'll just get rid of that old p.o.s. International and hire someone else to take my place!

I know of three that I personally recruited, all of whom are very good friends as well (Skywalker, Soundman, and a mutual friend of ours who isn't on any message boards). But as for total individuals who came to Superior Carriers because of info I passed along I have no idea. I never view any of my threads with any company as a recruiting tool, just as a means to convey good information to other drivers about what a mere, average driver can achieve.

I'm going to take a Mulligan on that. Anyone that knows me and/or has read my stuff over the years knows I keep meticulous records as a company driver and as an I/C, and have always shared them openly. And nothing will change in that regard with an exception. I'm to a point where I'm bored putting up constant, factual numbers and talking about my company. Funny ain't it?

I'll still be around and posting here and there and of course, will give updates about how things are going for me. But the usual journal I share with everybody is not likely to occur again, if ever. I probably will put up my numbers once a full year is up in the same basic format as I've been doing, but it will be strictly pure basics. It probably won't be much different than what I've done here for almost a full three years concerning income and time off either, just a different company.

As for the message board thing, I'm just too involved nowadays with a couple of other sites that have absolutely nothing to do with trucking, and it's refreshing to talk about other subjects I have interest in and knowledge of, with people other than my co-workers. I don't mean that as disrespectful to anyone, but I do have a very active life away from my truck and work. Especially when I'm home with my family, and that has always come first and foremost.

I'm glad to hear that Rob! Hopefully it will stay that way for you and the others. Like I've said, it really seems that my terminal area likes to throw out "Extra" rules and policies that others don't. Believe me, the extra $$$ they pay working out of K3 and Markham isn't worth it for the b.s., and had I been able to get back to running full-time from Westville or, transferred back to Garden City I most likely wouldn't be leaving.

However, don't confuse what I'm saying as being that I don't get along with the personnel in the office(s); quite the contrary! I get along great with everyone. I just simply refuse to play the silly little games and have stuff shoved down my throat that has no bearing on job performance, safety, and efficiency. I didn't do it in the Marine Corps, and I'm d*** sure not going to do it for any trucking company!

You're very welcome. I'm happy that I was able to help out at least one person in this industry by steering them in this direction. It beats the hell out of the alternatives with a box, reefer, or skateboard!!!

I will give a small hint about the new company though. They have several different makes of trucks in their fleet, all with larger sleepers, and varied colors as well. Here's the make and color I personally would prefer getting assigned, though I'll take whatever they issue me!

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../80265647b.jpg

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Is there a flatbed attached to that truck, by chance...?
;)

I chose Superior as my first job out of CDL school thanks to the information you posted here, and I believe it's the best company I could have gone with. I've been here a little over a year now. So thanks Carlo.

I will look forward to your occasional posts to see who you go with and how it works out for you.

Phil

Phreddo wrote:
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Can be any of these three trucks, and in any of these three colors (they also have burgundy and silver). ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...57348-Copy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...81129-Copy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../80265647b.jpg

pd wrote:
Thanks Phil! Well, not going to post who I go with for a long, long time but I can say that from all of the info I've gathered it should work out very well for me, and I should be in the same position or better concerning income and time off as I was when I ran Westville Dedicated back and forth to 'Bama...

:D

I wish you luck in your new endeavor. Its funny you say this. I walked into my home terminal wearing a pair of shorts yesterday. I wasn't going to any customers that day and since it was 90 + degrees put some on after my shower that morning. There was a driver from another terminal in the TV room who asked me if we were allowed to wear shorts there. He looked rather surprised when I told him yes as long as you don't mind the Terminal Manager making fun of your legs. He said don't wear them at Markham unless you want to get chewed out. He had put a pair of sweatpants on over his shorts.

They then had me deliver another drivers load and pick up my MT trailer from P&G so I threw on a pair of long pants since I was going to a customer. When I got back to the yard my terminal manager noticed I had changed and told me point blank that I was allowed to wear shorts around the terminal and when driving. A little common sense goes a long way in job satisfaction. I am glad so much of our freight is dedicated. I can go months without going to another terminal.

If I don't need a placards I will rip em off with my teeth. I run across OH a lot. Superior sez we don't need to stop with the green, the sign at the scale sez we do. I follow what the sign sez. I turned down hot placards a couple weeks ago cuz the crap was 210 and not 212. Not ripping you, but complacency and dedicated go hand in hand.