Location:
Springfield, MO
Driving Status:
Experienced Driver
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Truckin Along With Kearsey On The Web
Hi guys! I am a Prime driver of 8 years, a team trainer and certified CDL Instructor. I love my job and company. So many drivers helped me in the beginning that I have dedicated myself to giving back.
truckingalongfun@gmail.com or check out my YouTube link!
Posted: 8 hours, 57 minutes ago
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Drive schedule to fit in April 8th solar eclipse?
Oh wow so springfield and st louis are on there.
U never considered not.driving. i have seen them before. I remember how excited my mom was when halleys comet flew over
Posted: 20 hours, 4 minutes ago
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I could use some career (and maybe a bit of personal) advice
Its not really a rolling split cause i will still take a 10hr break.
I have a google maps of hotels with truck parking if u want to email me. It wont link here. Go swimming at the hotel!
Truckingalongfun@gmail.com
Posted: 20 hours, 31 minutes ago
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I could use some career (and maybe a bit of personal) advice
If you like true crime stories... True Crime Brewery ppdcast that i get on youtube is decent. It is a husband wife team. He is a doctor and discusses a lot of the science behind thr ctime scenes and psychological aspects.
Posted: 20 hours, 50 minutes ago
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I could use some career (and maybe a bit of personal) advice
Rob did a great job of paying off debt! Congrats! I paid off $70k in 2 years but its just me, no family.
I did this by focusing on my goals. Eye on the prize is what kept me motivated. Once i saw the bills go down, i ran harder and trained. I would have crawled through crap so remove that stress of debt.
I often drive for 5 hours then stop for 2 hours. Eat, take a walk, take my shower then drive another 5 hours.
Before i had a home, i made it a point to get a hotel room from time to time.
Maybe try to learn something. I learned how to edit my videos. Try to learn playing a keyboard or guitar? Draw?
Posted: 1 day, 18 hours ago
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Pianoman said:
I completely agree with Kearsey on this one. No one on this forum is perfect and that 100% includes me. I have been somewhat transparent about my faults but not all of them because I don’t want all of my mistakes to be public. I don’t have a criminal record but I have been fired twice in my relatively short trucking career and in both instances I deserved it.
Admitting your faults & accepting responsibility will get you far in your career and life in general. We all screw up.. yeah i got a million safe miles.. but last month i missed an appt by 58 minutes. The first time in 8 years i was late for a delivery. I was so mad at myself and i apologized both to my fleet manager and to the owners of the truck i am driving. Because of my history, they all sort of shrugged it off. But i beat myself up over it. It just inspired me to do better. I didn't make excuses. I slept through the alarm, so i bought a screamie meamie at the next truck stop. I won't oversleep again.
Posted: 1 day, 23 hours ago
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I am copying this comment to a new thread so all can see it.
Do not lie on applications. Know what is on your DMV and DAC records
Be on time
"We are all at risk in this freight recession and continued oversaturation of drivers. Do not mess up, and always GOAL. Do not get tickets. Do not argue with disrespect. Complaining and raising a concern are two different things. Raise concerns in a professional manner, not an unprofessional one.
Do not leave a job without one lined up. Pay attention to wages. Some companies are lowering pay or removing bonuses. Many companies will not rehire a driver who left.
Gone are the days of getting a job 2 hours after leaving one. I know drivers who are taking 2 to 4 months to find work due to a blemished record.
Stay safe all."
Posted: 1 day, 23 hours ago
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One Million Safe Miles Reached!!!
Thank you so much everyone. To answer Bruce's question, we get a "millionaire's award banquet" where they give us a plaque and leather jacket. As a company driver i also get to order my own truck with options and by color and make.
I am on a mini fleet right now, and have a decent truck so I dont want to change.
Posted: 2 days ago
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Thanks guys. I wasn't sure how you were all going to react to me. I want people to know I am not saying I am perfect. We all have a past of which we are not proud. We live and learn from our mistakes which is our mantra here. And I strive to be a better person in all I do. Sometimes i get disappointed in myself when i fail. All of you have been here to pick me up and cheer me on. I appreciate and respect you for that.
There are quite a few people on here that I have met in person and talk to regularly. Some no longer post, yet our friendships remain, and for that I will be forever grateful to this forum.
I saw PackRat as a friend with whom I spoke quite often. I and others tried to point out that his arguing with dispatch at various companies could become his kryptonite. We stopped speaking when I realized certain things didn't add up. Oh well, people can be anyone they want online. I could tell people i am a 25 year old playboy bunny. Who would know unless they met me or had my real name? I admit i felt betrayed by a friend on a personal level after worrying and praying for his recovery. We havent spoken in years.
When i woke this morning, i received a text from him 0633 CT. I can only assume it was about Big Scott's comment. I tried to call, and he didn't answer. Then i posted out frustratiion and being an emotional woman.
I wish him all the best in everything he does. I hope he finds a company where he is happy. Unfortunately, you can find his own words on this site where he said he should never have left Crete the first time. He planned to stay forever. Then again he said the same about Versatile. Now he can't say even one good thing about them.
One thing we often do here is a sort of "intervention" instead of enabling someone.
I hope Packrat gets the wake up call he needs to improve his career.
Again, i wish him only the best and am not mentioning any of this again.
As Davy stated, we are all at risk in this freight recession and continued oversaturation of drivers. Do not mess up, and always GOAL. Do not get tickets. Do not argue with disrespect. Complaining and raising a concern are two different things. Raise concerns in a professional manner, not an unprofessional one.
Do not leave a job without one lined up. Pay attention to wages. Some companies are lowering pay or removing bonuses. Many companies will not rehire a driver who left.
Gone are the days of getting a job 2 hours after leaving one. I know drivers who are taking 2 to 4 months to find work due to a blemished record.
Stay safe all.
Posted: 2 days, 6 hours ago
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One thing about being on a forum for the better half of a decade is meeting in person. Many of us have met each other. Many of us know personal identification of each other and speak on the phone quite a bit.
Name, birth dates... FB recommends people as friends if you have a contact in your phone. Facebook is interesting. You can then see the person's spouse and all they post. You see what surgeries and medications they take.
Sometimes you find out that a person is actually about 10 years different in age than he/she actually is. Usually people claim to be younger, yet i know someone who claimed to be 10 yrs older. Others claim illness and surgeries just for attention. Or take intimate knowledge of someone's illness and make it their own. Why? I have no idea.
But it happens.
Sometimes those same people quit or get fired from 9 companies in 8 years and can't even make a go of it when they buy their own truck. It is never their fault. Always someone else's. Always they are the perfect person, spouse, driver.
IF we all know such a person who tugs at heart strings with half truths or flat out lies... what is more honorable? To expose it or continue to allow the charade to go on? How betrayed would you feel to think someone you chatted with regularly was born in 1967, not 1957. Or that they never had surgery for which you felt so much compassion? Or that all the admiration you had for them as a driver was a lie? Would you believe it or call the exposer a fraud and liar?
I am just curious.
Big Scott's post was not about kicking someone when he is down. It is from the frustration of watching someone for years claim to be one thing, and yet is actually something else. It is from watching a person preach an industry standard of excellence, yet doesn't meet those standards himself. Watching someone pounce on newbies on the forum with sarcastic advice.... yet he can't hold a job more than 6 months to a year.
We should make a list. How many companies can we remember packrat working in the last 8 years?
CRST, Knight, Roehl, Crete, CFI, Crete again, J& R Shugel, his own truck, Versatile. And i am pretty sure i missed a couple. Cause he has been fired like 3 times in the past 8 months? 2 were for accidents.
How many companies has big scott worked in the last 8 years? CFI and velocity
How many times was he fired? 0
We preach personal accountability. Do we hold ourselves to those standards?
@Pianoman... i have reliable sources. But i am not going to dox someone here. Big Scott spoke the truth, and there are others here who know it also. We stayed silent not to cause a riff.... but there comes a point when a comment packrat makes is nauseating to someone who knows the truth.
Believe it not is up to you.
Posted: 7 hours, 40 minutes ago
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First trucking job
Be flexible. I am sick and tired of advertisments that make trucking look like paid travel. Can it be exciting and adventurous? Yes. But this is a serious job. One thing that really irks me is when some of these youtubers dont explain how this is a freaking job. One chick jumped in a trailer in a miniskirt and heels.