Comments By James P.

I approve of this thread!

Washington State, Oregon, N. Cali, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, a little Arizona and New Mex, LOVE western Montana, Wyoming can be ok I reckon, N. and S Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma. I hope to relocate to western Montana sometime later this year, or early next.

Smh... Is it that hard to recall that you're 13' 6" in a truck? My math skills are atrocious (I have never been able to memorize/learn my multiplication tables), but it should be obvious that something that is 13' 6" isn't going to fit under something that is 11'.

I have a Blueparrott Express. I like it.

I think the smart thing will be not to develop tunnel vision about a company and keep my options open.

I can understand this myself. I had a list of 40 something companies that I've all narrowed down to maybe's to investigate further to develop a list of 20, than 10 w/ a top 5 to contact. Before all that happened I found Decker Truck Line out of Fort Dodge, IA. According to their Western Reefer division description, over 70% of their runs occur west of Ohio, and the main terminal for that division is in Missoula, MT. This is huge to me. I want to run the west more often than not, and I've been wanting to relocate to western Montana for a few years now. The only way I've seen to be able to run the west like I want is to get a western regional position, which while not impossible would probably be unlikely until such a time as I can relocate to a hiring area, which usually does not include Montana. The recruiter I've contacted also states that their rookie drivers avg 2700-3200 mi/wk. While that I think will be a bit much as I haven't driven in near a year and a half now, and I still don't have that much overall experience, it's nice to see that the miles should be there. They'll also send me out with a trainer since it's been so long since I drove big truck. I sent the recruiter an email with many of the questions that were advised in an old thread here, and I like most, if not all, of the answers. I'm super excited about Decker, but I'm nervous that I might be jumping the gun. So far they seem like a super good fit. Everyone else seems to run primarily east of the Mississippi, bleh. Now I just have to find my bunny a new home before I can apply.

The suspended provision also required drivers to include the period of 1:00AM through 5:00AM on both days when they did their reset. With the suspension of that provision, drivers will have successfully reset their clocks when they have been off duty for a continuous period of no less than 34 hours.

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There is an all body weight only excercise program on http://athleanx.com/xero that I plan on getting when I get myself situated after returning to the road.

If I'm not mistaken, this simply refers to allowing drivers only one reset a week. It was, when I got my CDL-A in May 2012 that drivers were able to take multiple resets a week.

When I went back OTR in 2014 after having been off the road for a year I discovered we were only allowed one reset a week, and we now also had to take a mandatory 30 min break in the first 8 hours of driving.

I understand that the one reset a week restriction has been lifted. I hope it stays that way. Now if we could just get rid of the 14 hour clock, and maybe the 30 min break, I'd attempt the banana dance.