Profile For Stevo Reno

My mentor/friend who's driving with CRST, almost 10 years, now had told me CRST is more solo than teams now. And of course they also still do the lease op thing....He said out of 2,000 trucks, now, ONLY 130 are team trucks still, for now. And of course the past year or so they no longer train drivers, or contract with the schools they used for it.

BK depending on your thresh hold for pain, Aleve's worked for me after my right knee surgery. They gave me a script for Norco 325's, which I never filled. Way before I was driving (2012) I have a very high thresh hold for pain, and didn't need the strong stuff. When ever I rarely got a head ache, it'd take 4, 800mg tylenols to get rid of it, just how my body works.......When the nurse removed the 70 staples in my knee (a week late) she was amazed how it didn't hurt hahaha. Since some of the skin grew over some staples...

So if I were you, if you didn't really need those drugs, why bother. Even though, as mentioned, with dr's note etc you should be good.....Wishing you a speedy recovery and getting back in the saddle

Dion, with a quick google search, comparing the 2 "brands", I'd say YES you can use the cheaper of the 2 valves.....Both are exact same sizes, and ported the same. Only difference I see is 1, uses quick connects, the other uses the brass fittings. Which ya can probably change to what is used on yours...

Remember, most parts are actually made by 1 manufacturer, just get different company branded stickers on em....Also check the connections, maybe 1 port fitting is sloppy and seeps/ leaks air, especially a quick connect type..

Wait 6 months,minimum, to a year, to be SURE ! Everything depends on your smoking habits, for how long ya puffed n passed lol....Your metabolism, body size etc. Too many variables, to risk rushing into it, only to fail....Me, I'd wait a year and be sure (Ain't smoked since high school, 1976) And new age weeds way more potent !

Hahaha 9/9/19 (on my deceased mom's birthday) I started at CRST for 30 cpm+ an extra 1 cent for my 6 month US Navy stint, "military bonus" hahaha Of course they got more than a penny from Uncle Sam for that bonus.....

I didn't care, I got my start in trucking, and within a year 1, with raises was at 48 cpm. 18 months later due to "driver shortage" lol got bumped up to 60 cpm for driver retention....No debt/bills the low starting pay was eh "ok" at the time, and far better than ZERO $$

22 months later, I took a 5 month "vacation", left/quit CRST on good terms. Then I got back in the seat at Legends, for 60 cpm until retiring....Was a great life experience in trucking, just wished I had pulled the trigger years earlier

Great news James, glad to see your perserverence is going to pay off for you.....My 2nd co-driver, tore up our truck and never got canned. Even after he ran into a parked truck in a small Pilot in Jersey! He heade to the pumps, too fast, didn't use his mirrors, and cut too soon right into the cab of the truck parked....

He blew so many tires I lost count !! He even did as you, turned to soon, pulling a BRAND spankin new trailer, and bent the wheel and popped the tire !!.....That had to be replaced at a Love's, and was NOT cheap, for a new rim and tire...He had even drug a trailer with brakes locked in a rest area, created 2 flat spots on both rears down to the cords!!

I couldn't wait to get him off my / our truck.....About a year or less he was no longer driving !!

Bestest luck with this new gig, you CAN DO IT

I've tried for years,to teach my buddy how to back all his small trailers. Boat, utility, and car hauler to no avail. He can't get it that they turn way to fast, or how to turn right for left backing etc lol. I gave up trying, and just did em all for him when we used 1 of the trailers. His Yukon, right rear corner above the bumper still has the big dent when him or his wife, jack knifed a trailer 1 time I wasn't there lol

Years of practice before trucking, moving around many a U-Haul truck & trailers. I always wanted the 26 footers, with the 12 ft trailer or car haulers....When we did equipment runs up into Big Bear, or anyplace really. Coming down the mountain with those were kinda fun.....

Yeah, any loads going into Mexico, from my experience, is dropped at a drop lot. Then, drivers from Mexico come and pull the loaded trailers into Mexico, and empties back into the US.....I dropped like 4 loads in a yard a few miles from the border.

Besides, with the current state of affairs with the cartels, etc, who really wants to go INto Mexico now ? hahaha Not me, and I spent LOTS of time there growing up, and speak the language...

Don't waste your $$ on those hand helds they sell at Love's or Pilot etc. they are crap lol I used my Love's points to get 1 before, and it was a waste of time & $ period....

Back in the day, remember those long 102" whip's the highway patrol used?? Now THOSE were the bomb !! lol Having used different types when I was into that scene in the 70's. Found that whip antenna worked the best, no wonder the CHP etc used em in the old days eh

Yes, BK< I learned and used that exact philosophy, Straight n Late lol. Made many a tight turn, much easier to complete safely, and with plenty of room !! @ school they taught you to go out until your shoulder passes the curb, on the road you're turning onto, right or left....Some I pushed the imaginary line a bit further, past the curb line-to-shoulder...

James, you aren't the 1st to get a trainer from hell, or a co-driver hahaha. Surely you will find your spot, you seem to have the drive and ambition to make it thru........I went thru 3 co's that, 2 couldn't drive fer chit, 3rd turned out to be a total control freak physcopath. 2 weeks, with him I was off the truck and done with him !!.....He never let me on the lower bunk either, driving or parked !!

1 night, I was awake and just waiting for him to maybe attack me when he went off on me snoring ! Wasn't me, I was fully awake, was him, I even recorded it for proof! He kicked my bunk into the air, twice, and went nuts ! He got up into the driver seat. Then he blasted the radio up and down,, the AC, then revved the truck etc dunno why?....Anyway, I was ready, to kill him, literally if need be in self defense, it could'a got real ugly, real fast!..... I just exited the truck and walked off to chill in the yard we got trapped/locked in at a customers by accident....

Got ahold of our DM and made up a B.S. excuse to get rerouted back to Calif from Denver. Explained later what had really happened, turned out he quit CRST when we got to the terminal in Cali.