Comments on: The Best Trip for a Truck Driver – Home. http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/truckermike/2009/05/the-best-trip-for-a-truck-driver-home Helping Those Who Are Considering A Career In The Truck Driving Industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:28:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan Rogers http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/truckermike/2009/05/the-best-trip-for-a-truck-driver-home/comment-page-1#comment-926 Dan Rogers Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:03:45 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1496#comment-926 Hi Mike! Uncle Dan in Florida here. I've been enjoying your blog. It's nice getting to know you better from your writings. Here you are, a man driving a rig, and I barely even knew you as a boy. Life passes so rapidly, though! It's nice to have the Internet to make better connections with others, but the problem there is that you make so many connections that you can't give all of them the attention you'd like to. But you keep writing and I'll keep reading. Anyway, you really are something of the adventurer, I'll say. Congratulations on your achievement going solo! I'll be watching! And give my love to all the family! Uncle Dan. Hi Mike! Uncle Dan in Florida here. I’ve been enjoying your blog. It’s nice getting to know you better from your writings. Here you are, a man driving a rig, and I barely even knew you as a boy. Life passes so rapidly, though! It’s nice to have the Internet to make better connections with others, but the problem there is that you make so many connections that you can’t give all of them the attention you’d like to. But you keep writing and I’ll keep reading.

Anyway, you really are something of the adventurer, I’ll say. Congratulations on your achievement going solo! I’ll be watching! And give my love to all the family!

Uncle Dan.

]]> By: Funky Fred from Fargo. http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/truckermike/2009/05/the-best-trip-for-a-truck-driver-home/comment-page-1#comment-922 Funky Fred from Fargo. Sat, 30 May 2009 17:34:41 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1496#comment-922 Reminds me of a couple times when I got dispatched away from the house and another company driver got dispatched going by my house. I asked the dispatcher why I didn't get the load going by my house, so I could at least stop and get my mail, get a shower, possibly even spend the night. He said he didn't know I lived where I lived. I said, you mean the drivers home address isn't on your computer screen? He said no, it's not. Another time, I was living in Nampa, Id. with a load going to Seattle due to deliver Friday after Thanksgiving. Was assured the consignee would be open 'till 3pm. Went past my house, unable to stop, (just lived 1 mile off I-84) and made the consignee by noon Friday. They were closed and had to wait 'till Monday to deliver. Could have stayed at the house over the weekend. After that, I always called the consignee to verify, first hand, their receiving hours. More often than not, dispatch info is incorrect. FFfF Reminds me of a couple times when I got dispatched away from the house and another company driver got dispatched going by my house. I asked the dispatcher why I didn’t get the load going by my house, so I could at least stop and get my mail, get a shower, possibly even spend the night. He said he didn’t know I lived where I lived. I said, you mean the drivers home address isn’t on your computer screen? He said no, it’s not.

Another time, I was living in Nampa, Id. with a load going to Seattle due to deliver Friday after Thanksgiving. Was assured the consignee would be open ’till 3pm. Went past my house, unable to stop, (just lived 1 mile off I-84) and made the consignee by noon Friday. They were closed and had to wait ’till Monday to deliver. Could have stayed at the house over the weekend. After that, I always called the consignee to verify, first hand, their receiving hours. More often than not, dispatch info is incorrect. FFfF

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