pocket load notebooks
 

Several companies furnish their drivers with pocket sized notebooks to record load informatiion (ie trlr nbr, p/u and del date time). Does anyone know where I can buy such notebooks, or who prints them? Any help would be appreciated.

Wal Mart has them. They cost less than a dollar. Check the office supply section. They are by the regular size notebooks.

If you are talking about the ones that are preprinted with lines for all the load info I have seen them at some truck stops. The only other place I have ever seen them were at company stores. Kind of pricey as far as I am concerned.

IMHO you are better off just going to Wal Mart, Kmart, Staples, Big Lots, etc and getting yourself some pocket sized spiral bound notebooks.

You can order the Driver's load notebook direct from JJ Keller.

Driver's Load Notebook Detail - J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. 039-B

You mean there is actually a notebook that has specific lines for all that crap? What a waste. You're going to be writing the information anyway. It's not that much more effort to write a # sign for the trailer and p/u number.

The JJ Keller notebook is a lousy spiral notebook anyway. I prefer the "Fat Lil Notebook" from Mead. One notebook lasts me about a year.

Yup there sure is. For that $3 or so per notebook there is about 30 loads you can write down.

It is pretty handy for a newbie for a month or two until it becomes second nature as to what information is really important for a load and which is merely filler, but after that any notebook will work.

I personally liked the "steno" style notebooks. I found them a good size. Large enough to get everything about the load, including direction to the shipper and several consignees on a single page, but not so large as to be difficult to handle and glance at if needed while in-route.

I always just found those cheap little notebooks to work just fine, get a pack of 10 of em at big lots for a buck, and that will last you a good year or more.

The Driver's Load Notebook has 6 pages designated for each load. I find I can not utilize that much space.
Two pages would be plenty.

I used a Mead Five Star notebook. I copied all the information from my Qualcomm load screen onto a page. I, also, wrote any additional information as needed, ie trailer numbers, mileage, special instructions, mileage, out of route, arrivial/depart times, detention times, anything and everything that I might need at a later date.

I thought about getting a three ring binder and making pages where I just filled in the blanks. I never got around to it though. It would save a little time not having to write all the headings.