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Rivers
Nature’s splendor and highways of history I really love rivers. I’ve always been an ocean and beach lover, too, but really love rivers. In the areas I travel regularly I see so many beautiful river crossings that always make me wish I could explore, or at least stop and gaze. Rivers had so much to…
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Miles and miles
Continuing To Learn The Ins and Outs of Trucking It’s been a while since I posted. About 20,000 miles of been a while. 😀 My experience since switching carriers has been mixed but mostly good, but with some significant negatives, as well. So first the good – I’m with a quality company run by quality people. My…
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Snakebit Since I last posted things in general have been great since I changed carriers. The people here are great, I’ve had good routes, and I really like working here. Having said that, man have I had a string of bad luck. It started on a trip to Wisconsin. I got to my first destination…
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What a difference a few weeks makes! Everything I have read about what to do and not do in your first year in trucking advises to stay with your first job at least a year. Some folks apparently just don’t listen to good advice. As noted in my last post I jumped ship and last…
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The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful, The Ugly, and Big News Things took an interesting turn this week. A quick recap of my short time driving since completing training: week one, stretching into week two, turned into an eight day stretch with the weekend stuck doing a 34 hour reset in SC. I took that…
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First Week – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
This is day 7 of a very long first week on my own. Overall a really good week but with a few bad luck hits and the current one not over yet as I am in the second hour of waiting for a live load with no reasonable idea of how much longer to wait.…
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On My Own
Time to Fly Solo I finished training last Friday and did my road test yesterday (3/20) – happy first day of Spring! I was issued my own ride. My truck is a 2022 Freightliner Cascadia. I spent the rest of the afternoon yesterday getting moved in, electronics set up and mounted the way I want…
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Two Up and Down Weeks – Welcome to Trucking The week started out Monday on a good note. We picked up a load from a nearby shipper and headed for a two location drop in PA. We didn’t start until evening but still hit heavy traffic in NOVA. Took our 10 hour in the parking…
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Turn the corner week – no pun intended This was a very full week with a lot of learning and starting – just starting – to get somewhat comfortable with the truck in most situations. Several glitches and dealing with delays and apparently normal holdups. Also learning how to best manage clock time to figure…
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Time to go – Week 2
So my first whole trip. My trainer had picked up a load on the way to pick me up Tuesday morning at the terminal and drove to just over CT line where we took our required 10 hour break. I took over from then on – York, PA to New Holland, PA – Amish country.…
Old guy new to trucking 