Comments By Scott B.

Yeah that's a pretty crumby tactic to hold you to a contract that they will not allow you to fulfill when you tried in good faith. Smacks of indentured servitude. I think I'd contact a lawyer but first I would find out what's on my DAC report. If CRST hadn't put anything on your DAC lawyering up might cause them to do so.

Well we got a 1300 mile load out of Laredo to Statesville. Gonna have to T- call it about 300 miles short since pay period ends at midnight which will give us about 5650 miles for the week. Last week was 4998. Truck started actin real funny with either the battery or alternator today and voltmeter alarm was going off and "load shedding" warning was sounding on instrument panel. Got to a Petro in west Louisiana to get system check but by that time system was pushing 14 volts again and could not replicate the problem.

There's a clutch?

One guy told me to reverse my air lines and release and re set trailer brake if wheels are rolling. Dunno what it does but it worked. Also, heck with chocks: find a curb.

T/A is selling a discontinued Blue Parrot Xpress (not headset) model for 59.99 while supplies last. I have no complaints about it other than the fact the first one I bought didn't work. T/A happily exchanged it. Dunno about the battery but it sounds way better than my phone on both ends and I hardly know it's there when wearing it. Have to remember not to sleep with it on.

Got a load out of Dallas headed for Laredo TX. I'm very interested to see what happens next because dispatch has already said they have a load for me there. My partner is about 800 miles from his 30k and will be about 1000 miles from Murray. But PTL runs a lot of freight between Laredo and Los Angeles. They also primarily use the p2 trainees to make those runs because they are teams. So things might be changing for me real soon.

Pretty funny. I was recently in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and was kinda struck by the odd accents. I got some cheddar spuds from a truck stop there and they were delicious. I just couldn't resist telling the cashier " Y'all sho do got sum durn good taters round here." to see the reaction. She looked at me like I may have been from a galaxy far, far away.

It means if your company dispatches you to pick up or deliver into NYC then you are obligated to accept the load. Having been very close to NYC as a rookie/trainee I can tell you it's not an area you want to drive a truck through.

I ponder as to why that bug did what he just did.

One thing crazy about these Amazon loads is the way they at loaded. They have a massive system of conveyors and rollers inside that lead into trailers. The boxes are just crammed into the trailers as they come down. Not palletized, stacked, or wrapped. Just thrown in there. Even though the loads are usually under 10k lbs, they feel a little like beer loads because of the shifting.