Profile For Parrothead66

Oh I've got no problem asking any question that I don't know about. I'm just warning folks that there may be a lot of em

Well it looks as though I'm leaving the flatbed behind, for now at least. Taking a job with JB Hunt on a Good Year account. Home for reset and possibility of 1 night during the week. Based on the information I've been given by the company and a friend that runs the same account, it should also provide a little bit of a raise. So just as a warning, I haven't pulled dry van since cdl school so I may be asking some dumb questions here in the next few weeks.

Excellent post and definitely not selfish in any way on your part. It has really given me a new outlook on what my wife has maybe gone through. Maybe another reason to appreciate and love her even more. Thank you

CTS is a good school. That’s where I went. We even have a driver that parks there on the weekends.

Agility test is mainly some balancing test standing on one leg, walking a 2x4 etc. then you’ll do some drills to simulate squatting and checking under a trailer and folding a tarp. On those just remember breathe slowly and maintain your heart rate. You’ll probably have to lift tarps of various sizes and place them on a shelf or trailer. That’s about it unless they’ve changed it up recently.

Look on Rand McNally website. They did have a 5” refurbished with warranty for about $150

Temporary patch until you get to the shop...rub a bar of soap over the hole if you see it...soap will fill the hole, works on a fuel tank also

Congratulations!! Age ain’t nothing but a number

😲😲 No per diem seems minor now

They will not dispatch us if logs are not approved daily.

It’s a bit different for us because 90% of the time we return to the DC MT or laden with a vendor back haul. Next shift logs better be approved...or for chronic offenders they’ll pull the pre-plan and put them back in the planning queue.

Susan any day we forget or skip approving or legs (logs) we don’t get our per diem credit for that day.

I also add any trailer I hook up to even if it’s just a trailer move from the yard to the Lowe’s DC. Which is all of 2.5 miles.

Yes ours are the same with the drop down menus. Some pre-loaded remarks but also ability to type in something. And as G-Town said it automatically logs location on change of duty status but in the FMCSA book I’ve not found anything that says activity remarks are required. I usually add mine anyway but just when I was told it’s a DOT violation I questioned that. I haven’t found anything in writing that supports that statement.

Don’t bring that weather with you

I was told today that if you log on duty and don’t have any remarks that it’s a DOT violation. From what I was taught and read, I thought you only had to log location eg city, state when you do a change of status but nothing required as far as a remark about what activity you are doing. Can someone clarify this?

Ya headed to Alabama or Texas?

I hear 2019 they’re all going to autonomous trucks

Looks got

McElroy and TMC hire for flatbed straight out of school

If you’re with Western Express flatbed you can probably park at most Lowe’s stores without a problem.

Also you don’t have to go under the rub rail......All tiedowns and other components of a cargo securement system used to secure loads on a trailer equipped with rub rails must be located inboard of the rub rails whenever practicable.