Comments By Aaron Placencia

What do you guys use to block the sun? I'll be upgrading soon and all I know is, this freightshaker heats up like crazy. So any tips or advice on trying to keep it cool while I'm not driving would be great.

Awesome! hope everything goes smooth here on out! Best of luck and drive safe. J

Nice! Glad everything is going well. Keep up the good work. You'll be out tearing up the highway soon! In a good way. Haha

Awesome! Stay safe out there driver. Glad everything is working out for you.

Thanks everyone. I'm just glad to be leaving the east as of right now. Heading to IL. Should be able to get a load out of Midwest that can take me by Missoula. We will see tho. But I'm just anxious to get my truck!!

Good luck to you! Keep us posted on how it all goes. Been reading your diary it has been awesome!

im just glad i can upgrade! It's been a long time like you said. It'll be nice to make this my little home and start making better money for the family.

Woooo Hooooo!!!!! Finally. It's been a long time coming. Stay safe and good luck. I start orientation on Monday.

I'm here in Albany NY, been running east as of late. My Fleet Manager has told me he will be looking to route us back up to Missoula so I can upgrade to my own truck. Pretty excited that it's almost over! Once we do get to Missoula I'll prob take a day or two, I want to hit Walmart, get things I may need. Fix my glasses, that I broke. 😑 Do laundry and all that, then set the truck up and all that then be ready to roll! I'll be heading home tho, so back east I go but I miss my wife and daughter, so it'll be nice to see them. But overall, the extra training has been great. My shifting has improved and I'm feeling less nervous and all that since I know I can hit the dang gears! Haha but yeah, I'm pretty excited to take the next step. I know I need a lot of practice out there with backing and all that but that'll all come in time. I just know lots of GOALs and take my time. No rush for me. I'll do my best to be as safe as I can and to keep everyone else safe around me. Good thing is most of those people fly on by me anyways! But yeah, just figured I'd do a quick update. I'll keep everyone posted. Hopefully by next week I'll be going solo!

Be safe everyone and have a good one.

Aaron

Awesome! Keep the updates coming. Be safe and good luck! I'm sure you'll do great.

Awesome! Great day to day diary. Glad everything is going good!

Sounds good, I still haven't seen the prime yard yet in MO. Well, yesterday I drove the most miles I've done. 621. I kept it between 60 and 58 mph. We are at about 9.3 mpg which is awesome. Extra money on our check for next week. Especially if we keep it on the 9s. We are leaving Florida for Minnesota, another good run. Gonna relax tonight, red is going to drive and get it at 1am then I'll take over around noon tomorrow.

It was pretty funny, the first week he told Eric our fleet manager that he doesn't want team runs till he knows I'm safe and trust me. But after the first couple days he says I drive great and he's just been sleeping when I drive. Haha so they are pushing the team runs which I'm glad about because the sooner I finish the miles, the sooner I get my truck! Maybe they'll let me get it before the 20,000 miles are up. But anyways, I'm having fun. Doing a lot of backing and getting after it. Staying positive, missing the family but we talk and FaceTime so I can see little gabby! But stay safe everyone and I'll be back in a couple days I suppose.