Comments By ChickieMonster

HStates with suspended HOS regualtions

Here's the current list of states who have suspended HOS regulations for relief load haulers.

I realize this is just for fuel haulers but you said you'd be pulling for an oil company so it could possibly apply in that situation.

HStates with suspended HOS regualtions

Here's the current list of states who have suspended HOS regulations for relief load haulers.

One more thing.

Make sure your truck is WELL STOCKED. There's no clean drinking water except bottled water down there at the moment. Take a minimum of 2 cases of water with you as well as a weeks worth of food you can eat on their truck.

Also, fuel up BEFORE you get into Texas. They aren't OUT of fuel, but supplies are pretty limited at the moment due to transportation issues and water contamination in and around Houston.

So go prepared.

Be prepared to sit for awhile when you do get down there. They're staging trucks outside the city until they can get clear routes into town.

Depending on what you're carrying, you may get first priority to go in, especially bottled water and perishable food items such as milk and eggs.

I've seen pictures of staging areas with 500+ trucks waiting to go in. Texas has also suspended HOS laws for those carrying FEMA loads, so keep that in mind. Basically, get the load there as fast as possible, drive as long as you feel safe, and break until you feel safe to drive again.

Hey y'all!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have started a new project.

I've started making YouTube videos about trucking! There's only a couple up for now, but I've got two more in the works while we're here at home.

The plan for channel is to have 3 topics.

1. Truck Talk: this will be your basic trucking videos with road footage, backing, and various other trucking related topics. These will be the most frequent videos going up. I'm not committed to a schedule right now, simply because I'm still learning how to edit and make the videos. But I'd like to do about 2-4 a week.

2. Table Time: I'm a huge foodie, so once per month when we go home, there will be a cooking video. That's one of the videos I'm working on now.

3. Top Tens: this will (hopefully) be a bimonthly video series where we do a top ten list on various topics. The first coming out will be "Top Ten Tips for Trainee Truckers". I'm pulling from my own experiences and tips I've gathered from Twitter peeps and Facebook groups. And this video is dedicated to all my lovely friends here at TT.

If you guys would like to watch the videos, please do! To find my channel search "GATS 2017 Ashley Loucks" on YouTube. For some reason, YouTube isn't directly sending people to my channel just searching my name. This video is footage of the show trucks at GATS. You should be able to get access to there channel from there.

*Warning: the second video "Store Escapades" has a couple of curse words in it. I wasn't able to edit them out simply because I didn't know how at the time! But just FYI, there are only a couple about 6 minutes in.*

Brett, if this isn't ok to post, please take this down.

But I hope everyone tunes in! Please bear with me as the videos are a bit rough right now. I'm only using a dash cam and a very simple editing program, but I'm slowly learning!

Some thing to think about.

I've run across places that will have signs posted "no restrooms for drivers".

There's usually always one or two women working in the office. I talk to them directly using my best "it's an emergency" face.

"I'm so sorry, but is there any chance y'all have a restroom I can use? Pretty please?"

Every place I've been but one, the ladies will say "oh honey, of course!" And buzz you through the door or whatever to use the employee restroom.

Sorry gentlemen, but sometimes being a woman has its advantages!

I've gotten stuck at a shipper/receiver for a 34 once. I delivered in Aurora, CO and was supposed to pick up immediately to head back to Wichita KS.

Well through a whole bunch of different problems I ended up parking in their overflow lot for 34 hours until they straightened out the loads and got me moving again.

I wasn't asked to do this. I did it because A: I actually needed the reset as my recaps weren't great and B: because it made more sense to stay there then refuse, pitch a fit and try to find another load.

I had no hot food, but plenty of water and sandwich stuff and access to bathrooms, although it was a hike.

So we chilled in the truck, took nice long naps and caught up on our saved tv shows.

And I could have used personal conveyance to go to a truckstop but, it's Denver. 'Nuff said.

Lunchbox cooker and a crock pot. Both around $30.

Do you have an inverter? If so, and it's over 1500 watts, then maybe an electric skillet or hot plate. Both around $30-40.

Check out Cooking on the Truck and Big Truck Cooking on Facebook. They have all the info you need to get started in a rolling kitchen.

FM 1472 is a huge mess especially now that they're doing all that construction just north of Killam. Our yard is up there and there's been times it's taken 20-30 minutes to go less than 2 miles.

I really don't like Laredo all that much.

women should never be allowed to drive trucks

I agree with him! You ladies do such a good job out here I actually have to work for my money!

I simply pointed him in the direction of the proven statistics that show that women are actually safer drivers. And less than politely told him where he could stuff his 1950s mentality opinions.... I never said I was ALWAYS a lady!