Comments By Travis

Our pins were MMDDYY birthdates, not sure if that's on any paperwork a trainer would have but a sinple social engineering "when's your birthday? Oh cool, what year" gets that data

I can't say how their actual volume is but Schneider has some approximately $3000 bonus deal if you'll run teams on the van side up through the holidays.

As we head into the slow season, FedEx is offering furloughs instead of laying off employees. Furloughs are offered top to bottom and then forced bottom to top if nobody volunteers.

Furloughs would be from December 4th to March 5. FedEx will pay for all of our benefits during that time so we continue to have medical/dental etc. After the return from furlough, FedEx will pay out 300/week for each week we were off. They can't pay it during furlough because it would interfere with unemployment. They will deduct the insurance premiums from the time we were off from that 300/week.

FedEx guarantees return to employment at your seniorty spot and if furloughs are still necessary in March, they will do the process over again.

Anyone ever have to deal with them? I got sent to 3 different places 5 different times to get some tests done 🤣😭

US Army 2004-2008 92F (Petroleum Supply Specialist)

Small trash can,save truck stop and grocery store bags. Have a trash bag in the can, put a store bag inside it. Maybe more if you got bubble guts. Wrap it up, tie it off. Put another bag and tie that as well if you can't immediately put it in a trash can/dumpster outside your truck. When you can get it out of the truck also close and tie off the trash bag. I've got a small trash can, maybe 2 gallon size. A 5 gallon bucket would take up more space than I'd want to give up.

Yes, i mean can you take the test on a bus with just the permit?

For passenger you can take the written, but you have to test on a bus to get the endorsement on your license.

You can even do the actual driving parts of the passenger and bus endorsements with a permit?

I can only speak for North Carolina because I literally just went through this, but you can test out on all endorsements. Some companies may require certain ones like tanker or doubles-triples. DMV may try to give you a little grief. Just tell them that you need them to test. Haz-Mat is probably one you don’t want unless you absolutely need it for a job.

You can even do the actual driving parts of the passenger and bus endorsements with a permit?

I can only speak for North Carolina because I literally just went through this, but you can test out on all endorsements. Some companies may require certain ones like tanker or doubles-triples. DMV may try to give you a little grief. Just tell them that you need them to test. Haz-Mat is probably one you don’t want unless you absolutely need it for a job.

Another thing to look at is intermittent fasting and/or keto to keep your a1c and weight down. I want to say I've seen Brett post some about it as well.

There are plenty of type 1 db drivers. Some on this forum.

I'm hypoglycemic so have to watch diet closely as well. With a high protein, 1 to 1.5 grams of protein to 1 lbs of bodyweight, a bodyweight workout using the armrests for dips, pikes, diamond push-ups, coupled with kneeling pull-ups from the top bunk, declined push-ups from the bed down and utilizing the bags of chains for squats, curls and lat pulls, I've been able to consistently put on Lean muscle and reduce stubborn fat. I lift for progressive failure. I'll never be huge, but will definitely stay trim and lean with great core strength while putting on some size.

I alternate my workouts with a half hour of brisk walking on rest days. No hard-core cardio as it isn't needed for my body type and metabolism.

Absolutely no soda, no fast food, rarely eat out. Water only. I have a bit more latitude on fat, but even then, I keep it light. Organic clean protein.

Thanks, with the good responses I'm pretty confident now it's possible to stay fit while on the road. I go take a pre A1C the 30th this month. If that goes well. Below 8% I'm going to take my actual physical.

What about someone on paper logs who went off duty exactly at 0200? Would they put the line at 0200 or 0100?

I've wondered what happens on your logs, especially if you go off duty exactly at 0200 that day?

This Sunday, 2022 06 NOV, at 0200 Eastern Standard Time Daylight Saving Time ends. Clocks revert back one hour, so you get an extra hour of sleep. Set all those timepieces back before you go nighty night on Saturday. Try not to arrive an hour early to your delivery the next morning.

Trust Cher (yeah right!).

Iirc your logs update automatically but you still have to get a full ten hours off

I've wondered what happens on your logs, especially if you go off duty exactly at 0200 that day?

This Sunday, 2022 06 NOV, at 0200 Eastern Standard Time Daylight Saving Time ends. Clocks revert back one hour, so you get an extra hour of sleep. Set all those timepieces back before you go nighty night on Saturday. Try not to arrive an hour early to your delivery the next morning.

Trust Cher (yeah right!).