Comments By Roadkill (aka:Guy DeCou)

Running OVER 3000 miles a week is tough..not only to make those kind of miles, but physically as well...most drivers average about 2200-2500 miles a week...you start getting up to and over 3000 miles, you're either a genius with time management or you're on a dedicated..either way, that's tough driving and whilst it may sound great on paper, most people can only hold up that kind of pace for a few weeks at most before it catches up to them..

You can have a 7 foot vampire dido welding blowup doll if ya want.

If you know where I can get one of those, I would appreciate it..

You sound like a real easy going guy with a great attitude, im sure you wont have any trouble with the attitudes and personalities you will encounter in the trucking business.

Now THAT was funny...

Fingers Crossed Daniel, I start orientation on the 10th of March...

Daniel, I agree with the other guys, you handled this situation in the best way you could have..you don't need to be with that yahoo and he shouldn't be a trainer..imagine if he had gotten in an accident when he was on YOUR clock...this would have ended badly for BOTH of you...and I do mean ENDED...fingers crossed you get a top notch trainer this time..

Good to hear from you Dave..how about posting some pics of our new rig...also, sounds like you've been busy, which is good to hear..hopefully this weather will clear out soon and you guys can start posting some good mileage again..as a interesting side note, what phone carrier did you have that you found to be less than stellar??

Thanks for the responses, guys..that really does clear things up a bit...I guess I just got a bit nervous when I read Mongo's post about guys from Louisiana having trouble as that's where I will be coming from. Right now I'm still in the Islands and leaving everything behind and moving back home on an invitation to orientation is a HUGE leap of faith.. I just don't want there to be anything that puts the brakes on my forward momentum if I can avoid it..

If you want to see what wind can do, check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

Ernie

and the worse part about the Tacoma narrows bridge, was that the wind was only blowing about 30-35MPH..it was the oscillation that cause it to sway like that..

A lot of what you are asking depends on the company policy. You can pretty much do whatever you want on your restart as long as it isn't considered "work". Leaving your truck in a "safe haven" is usually required, that's why companies have terminals all over the US..I know some companies contract to share lots with other companies so just because you work for say Prime, doesn't mean you couldn't use a lot that Swift, Roehl, or Schneider might also use..

Let's say you get up after spending 10 hours in SB. You now have a full 14/11 hour clock. Then you go on duty..the time of day is irrelevant. So you go on duty and spend .5 hour doing your pretrip and then you start driving. You drive for 6 Hours and then stop. You have now been ON DUTY for 6.5 hours and have DRIVEN for 6 so you have 7.5 hours left on your 14 hour ON DUTY clock and 5 hours left on your 11 hour DRIVE clock. Now, if at this point you go into SB, both of your clocks STOP, and as long as you remain on SB for 8 CONSECUTIVE hours, you will still have 7.5 and 5 hours left at the end of 8 hours, which means that you can continue to drive for another 5 hours. Now once you use up those 5 hours you have to STOP driving. Your 11 clock is done, BUT you still have 2.5 hours left ON DUTY in case you have to do something else. At this point you MUST now spend at least 2 hours in SB to complete your 10 hour requirement. Once you have done that your ENTIRE clock resets and you have all of your daily hours available once again. One thing that sometimes confuses people is the 2 hour requirement to complete the rule..there is NOTHING in the rule book that says you have to spend ONLY 2 hours in the SB mode, you can spend MORE but you cannot spend LESS than 2 hours..hope this helps clarify this a little..if not let me know and we can try and do a tutorial via email.