Comments By Nate_K

You'll also need to give her plenty of freedom as to how things are run around the house and not come in one weekend trying to override everything she's done telling her she's not doing it right.

Best comment of all.

If you go over the road it will become her house and you are just a visitor and you need to remember that when you get home. She will change things and you will have to adjust to her changes.

One othe thing. It is gonna be hard on her at first too. Make sure you tell her that appreciate her strength in dealing with you being gone. Make sure you tell her how important she is. Make sure you tell her you miss her.

And most of all make sure you ask how she is doing!!!!! It is so easy to get wrapped up in talking about what your experiencing (good and bad) and forget to ask her about her day as well.

Trust me on this.

I am lucky that I love the time alone.

I don't sit in truck stops as I am much happier laying in my bunk.

I usually talk to mama once a day or text on a break.

I also drive for Roehl and have no idea how people find time to do anything but drive. I get run hard so that's good but I would love to get a little time to stop and take some pictures or hit a tourist gift shop along the freeway.

I run Reefer for Roehl and also live in Wisconsin so my first load is always out of Wisconsin. I have been as far west as Missouri and as far east as Phily. Roehl says they won't send you west until you have a year but I know a guy who has been with Roehl (new driver) for less than 3 months who went to Phoenix twice. So while it is rare it can happen.

Roehl does have Dedicated van routes that are all west and I hear flatbed does a lot of west coast runs.

As a reefer driver I get lots of drop and hooks.

Also comchecks are not a big deal.

You learn what customers will delay you and what ones will get you in and out fast. Some will even take you up to 24 hours early.

Good and bad with everything.

Personally I love just pulling out the little nob to slide my tandoms instead of the bar that vans have.

But making sure your reefer is always full before dropping at a customer can be a pain sometimes and it seems my loads are always heavier than most the van drivers I talk to.

Now I know why 78 on ramp was closed last night when I came through off 81.

Now I am thankful my load was delayed 8 hours or else I could of been stuck in that mess.

Sitting at customers I can handle. It's sitting in the drivers seat watching the clock waiting to start my day.

If I have an appt. at 1700 and place is a couple miles away I wanna take advantage of my clock and not start til about 1400. But waiting for that start time is unbearable for me.

If you really want to do a CYA - start your 10 hour break again after you get moved. Or at least do 8 hours, so you can do a "split" and get back enough on your 14 to move back to the consignee and drop the load.

Rick

And that is exactly what I did. I just took another 10.

Yes I checked it and it registered driving and on duty.

I made comment on log that I was forced to move. Not that it means anything.

Thanks for the reply.

My FM didn't really care but said they would be calling company to get an explanation why they did that to us.

Got a long run the next couple days but will be running at night so hopefully that helps keep me under the radar.

On a side note the 2nd shift security guard gave me permission to sleep there but 3rd shift guard didn't care.

Kicked 3 of us out.