Comments By Freebird

I'm going to take it nice and easy. I'm biting at the bit to get back on the road already. Got word I'll be going to fontana to pick up truck Monday or sometime next week.

Nice! Congrats on the first run. Be safe and enjoy. Look forward myself to get back on road now that i soloed out. Who you drive for?

Got back to Phoenix yard last night and soloed out today with May Trucking. Was a bit nerve racking. I have time off til Monday and will go pick up the truck wherever they've got one available.

Excited, anxious and nervous for the journey to start as a solo driver.

Great! I will have to do that. Thank you!

I too wanted to do the same and take a selfie by each state sign but that would be too hard driving solo. Also be a lot of stopping and no room for parking the truck so I threw that out. Great idea though.

Try stopping at the "Welcome Center" or "Visitor Center" rest areas as you enter the state. They usually have the same state signs posted in the rest area as they do on the interstate

Example:

Thank you so much!

Are you able to manually change the routing so if my company wants me to take a different road then what the gps is giving me I could easily switch it on the screen? I know the Garmin allows it. I'm trying decide which to buy and that will be deciding factor as other than that they seem to be the same. Thanks

Pictures of state signs. Hubby mans the camera while I drive. I'd like to print them out and make a giant collage to hang up at home someday. We are up to 39 already!

I too wanted to do the same and take a selfie by each state sign but that would be too hard driving solo. Also be a lot of stopping and no room for parking the truck so I threw that out. Great idea though.

I'm going to collect shot glasses from each state. Hopefully have chance to get all lower 48 while driving.

Just curious to hear if and what any of you guys collect while traveling?

Thank you all for the replies and great info. I was a bit confused and frustrated that I wouldn't be driving much in the 4 days. I've gotten over it with the help of you guys. Much appreciated. Look forward to this next week being a good one!

My trainer is a company driver and has been for a year now.

From what it seems he has a good relationship with his dm. His regular dm was in today and is also working this weekend.

As far as the loads, he don't reject any loads.well he hasn't since I've been on the truck anyway. I see every pre-plan that is sent and we go through trip planning it all and I send the macros.

What is messed up is that while we was eating when we got to the flying J, they sent us a pre-plan but cxl it right away due to the loadoctor being too heavy for our fuel levels. The load was weighted at 44100. However, the load we just "saved" for the company and delivered this morning for on time delivery was weighted at 44352 and we had same amount of fuel and we weighed just fine. The plan they cancelled was due to pick up tomorrow and deliver Tuesday from same place as the pre-plan we accepted. Just got me baffled and a bit frustrated cause I wanna drive while training not sit.

My trainer is headed home for home time which problem makes a difference. I'm just frustrated cause after this email days it means I've drove 3 hrs in the past 4 days. That is due to the rescue load we did which I'm not going into details on explaining on what we had to do to get that load there on time.

My trainer has done a great job. He eased me into the driving at first to build my stamina which I'm glad he did. He's been very helpful and has given me a lot of info.