Comments By Cwc

That is awesome news 🐢!!! Congratulations!

Waking up at midnightish from someone banging on the door yelling for me to move my tanker. Pulling back the curtain to see a truck on fire parked right in front of me. The truck to my left moved and I was able to pull out of my spot and away from the blaze.

Way more exciting than I wanted.

Fancy gap with fresh snow and an empty with supersingles is more than enough for me.

Never seen elk on Elk mountain... I had a buddy years ago.... He was pretty hairy, bet that is as close to seeing Bigfoot as I ever get.

Can't blame you for wanting to go to a community college. That's what I did only I went on a major trucking companies dime and had a job as soon as I graduated the program.

Skip the out of pocket expense. Have a job lined up. Be ready to deal with new things cause well... Your new to driving and your going to make mistakes. With those mistakes comes lost earnings. Learn from them and make more from it.

I could post a screen capture but I think letting you see for yourself is the better way.

Go to O'Reilly's auto parts store website and search for 121G

Enjoy!

I started at CRST also. And I have mixed feelings on giving a new driver a yay or nah on them. As others have mentioned team driving in itself is pretty rough. But on the flip side to that I did alot of drop in hooks in large places with wide open areas. That's not to say I never went to some places with funky little hard to get into docks.

Also I spent most of the time going from coast to coast so 3k mile loads. I can't remember if they pay for the permit or not however I'm pretty sure if you were to speak to someone in recruiting they would tell you up front and just remember they will do cash advances even in school I believe.

Also if you happen to come into orientation and it's a really large class, you might have the option to go to the overflow school which a few years ago was in Waterloo at Hawkeye community college. I enjoyed my training. I also spoke to a few people that had completed training at both CRST and Hawkeye Community College. And made the decision to try and see what I needed to do to make it to Hawkeye.

Also winter is coming and one thing I do like for CRST/new drivers is that they will send lots of update messages for weather/road conditions. They will also impose lower speed limits in less than ideal conditions or make you shutdown in bad conditions.

After training I was brought back and introduced to my dispatcher. He informed me that money could be light for the first few weeks but I had been doing a lot of reading and had expected that until I got the first mileage goal.

I don't really see you having a problem getting employment. Just be sure and list it if they ask.

Taking a walk on my last trip out west. Well... Now thats over with.

Last I saw this morning, Dorian is not going to make landfall anywhere in Florida. Unless of course it turns again to the west, which is unlikely at this point. The east coast will still have some strong weather, but I wouldn't anticipate it being anything near what the Bahamas is getting hit with.

Just bought my first house near Columbia,SC... That thing can take it's butt right back out to sea.

I grew up just down the road from Muncie in Anderson. Long since moved away. Although I occasionally deliver to Hershey's from Perdue farms in ?Delaware I wanna say. Which is right across the street from Carter's Anderson terminal.

Also as other might have mentioned home daily isn't as easy as it sounds. Often just long enough to shower, eat, sleep, and repeat.

Also keep in mind those home daily positions usually require really good time management skills and backing..

And since your in the area make sure you hit Art's Pizza for a roast beef sandwich. And Pizza King for a Royal feast with BBQ sauce .... Sounds horrible but you'll thank me while your eating it.... Not so much later that evening.

So, how do you three suggest a load like this be secured to prevent movement in a hard brake?

Personally, I would make sure I was safe by pulling a dry van so someone else had to haul that.

First thing I thought. Safest way to do it... Get someone else to do it. I'll stick to driving my tanker like granny.