Comments By Davy A.

Hopefully the procedure goes well Bob. I'm thriving at Hummer. Turned out to be a really great fit. Excellent money, great staff and culture. No nanny state equipment on the truck. Reliable home time. Just a win all the way around.

Check out 12 step recovery centers near you. Also check out Alanon or Naranon. Support groups for family members of addicts. (Codependents) which are generally more ill than the addict.

Also, addiction is a genetic inherited disease according to the DSM5. The only successful treatment is based off complete abstinence...that means for you as well.

NOAA all hazards radio

Driveweather app

Stormshield app

SafetravelUSA app is all 511 apps in one app by location and route.

Willyweather app

Windy App

Max Velocity YouTube live weather and spotting.

NOAA Velocity and relectivity radar pages by location.

NOAA conditions by route in Wyoming. Similar to 511 but better.

Watch the national forecast for the week daily and regional forecasts on wetherus tv. Free streaming.

Not only will inflation soar, but there will be even less freight available to move, meaning there will be more drivers available, so rates and pay will continue to plummet.

There's little to no mention of this in the state run propaganda outlets (media). Of course, the gaslighting continues, the censorship gets worse.

The 50/50 vote ratio is already in play to cover the manipulation of the vote tally.

It's all fun and games till you trash the economy bad enough that the center right and right decides to check the the crapolla. Last time it occurred was in the late 1700s.

I'm not sure what impact it will have with my carrier. Most of what I haul is domestically produced and is almost exclusively contract freight. Although we do have dedicated accounts with target and such, though I'm not on them by choice.

Well, even though I'm classified aa OTR, my runs are more similar to regional. I do a lot of 500 to 800 miles loads, 300 and a few locals, and an occasional 1300 or so.

I've been packing them in, trying to get my miles up for the week and month, so I've been pretty tired, coupled with the fact that I've hit the same drop yard in Des Moines 3 times in the week.

So I ended up driving on auto pilot up to the lot in Des Moines from KC. Got in the gate. Went to hit arrive at shipper and noticed I was supposed to be at the lot in Omaha.

Doh! I ate 150 out of route miles and burned off a few hours of my 70 I could have used. I still made the pick up and delivery early, but it ended up being a long day. Such is life.

OS, gotta chuckle on that, I missed the part about the hay. I've bucked many a bails too. Some days I almost miss it. Seems like it's all round bails these days or tractor loaded big squares.

Assuming you don't go through Amazon as said in your other post, a few kernels of experience for you.

Lengthen your time-line. You'll need to be a company driver for about 3 to 5 years before you try lease op. This is the time it will take you to begin to understand the industry, how to efficiently move freight, develop relationships that will get you loads and understand freight lanes and movement patterns.

Cart before the horse. Concentrate on getting your permit, then getting hired by a company that provides school and training, then surviving training, then making it a year with no accidents, incidents, no safety issues and no service failures.

Don't worry about the cpm. There's more to pay than that. I made a hair over 80k my first year at .50 cpm due to bonuses, ancillary pay and a well developed understanding of piecework pay. You most likely won't be able to put down more that 2100 miles a week starting out. It will take you time to learn how to be efficient with your clocks and your loads. It's not something that can be done faster, you have to experience it and learn through mistakes.

You have to learn to become a safe effective and efficient driver thats easy to work with in order to get loads. Especially now that there are so many drivers and so few loads.

It takes time to develop the relationships so that your dispatcher will consistently give you the loads instead of the 4 or 5 other drivers in the area looking for them too. The only reason the load planners and dispatch will is that you have proven that you can safely get the load done on time or early again and again. Keep in mind that you will be competing for loads with drivers like us here. That means you have to constantly up your performance and be reliable.

I'd say to go through the cdl diaries section. It is full of people who washed out early. Many of them bright and intelligent. Trucking is different than most other industries. Mark what they did wrong. Find the diaries of us that are still here, mark what we did right.

I fast to the extent that I can, but being hypoglycemic, I have to have a fairly constant stream of protein in.

On the note of eating making you tired. For sure, being paid piecework, working a job that was burning up 5000 calories a day, we would only eat just enough to take the edge off. If you ate past that, your productivity would fall. If you had a big meal, might as well go home. Sent many a kids packing from having a food coma.

As far as the Jerkey goes, it's all I eat for snacking. Just gotta read the labels, you can find some quality stuff and buy it in bulk.

I drink water, milk and coffee. Mostly just water. Gatorade kills me on dropping my blood sugar.

I do protein shakes simply because I can't eat enough most days and I end up burning muscle in that state.

Cardio is over rated. I don't do any. Simply progressive overload using bodyweight lifts. Works wonders.

Was stuck in traffic today, little girl rolled down the window and gave me an arm pump. I happily obliged. Freaked her mom out til she figured it out. Always puts a smile on my face.