Comments By Jerry

I have been with Celadon OTR since November and went thru their school and stuff, and have been both solo and team driver with them. I can answer questions you may have.

Well, if your recruiter is telling you that it's 240,000 team miles then go with that. This is the best answer regarding your question of "why cant they get it right the first time?"

they are having some issues at getting their new training program off the ground. Let's just call it growing pains - they will get past these problems and will eventually get all the kinks worked out, but it does seem they have bitten off more than they knew how to chew for the moment.

i'll gladly answer any more questions you have.

I will gladly answer your questions the best I can, just please let me know what you want to know and if I don't have an accurate answer I will do my best to get one for ya.

Nope, apologies for not being clear from the start.

Celadon tries to offer their teams a couple more amenities compared to solo drivers. Before they decided to bring on 'too many' drivers and run out of trucks, especially 'team' trucks, teams were supposed to have a couple extras provided in their trucks such as a fridge and power inverter. We're actually getting a bunch of KW T680s, one of which I'll be receiving, that are set up specifically for teams. They don't give solo drivers the installed fridge and inverter - just one of many examples of how they favor teams here.

I suppose I should've just went with the 3x longer reply I was going to write out at first.

You will go through schooling which I think they advertise as taking 6 weeks now instead of 3. Then, you'll attend a 3 day orientation. Then, you will wait to be assigned a trainer who will take you out on the road and train you for six weeks. You are supposed to return to the terminal in Indy every 2 weeks for a review on your progress.

Once you've done the 6 weeks and your trainer feels you're ready to be graduated, you'll return to Indy to do a road test just to prove that you can drive the truck. Then, you'll wait to be assigned a truck. You're expected to find your own teammate if you choose, but if I am not mistaken they can find you one. Yes, they "want" you to do all them miles team driving but if you go out and drive solo while waiting for a teammate, those miles will count as well.

Hey there, I'm with Celadon right now. I did their contract option and I'll be honest with you, they are so confused with what they're doing. When I signed the contract, it was for 240,000 team miles. That means that in order to fulfill my contract, I have to team drive, and ALL miles the truck turns (actually meaning all miles that you get paid) applies toward your contract. So if you and your teammate are paid for 5792 loaded miles in one week, all 5792 miles count toward your agreement.

The problem began when I finished my training and was told that instead of being paid a set cents per mile for 240,000 miles, I'm now expected to drive for even less cents per mile but for only 120,000 team miles. I was going to be a **** and hold them to their original agreement because when it comes to someone holding a $7200 tuition repayment plan over my head, DONT MESS WITH IT. However, I made them reprint a contract with the lower miles and we signed it, so that kinda worked out.

I'm about 70000 miles through my contract. I can tell you the following piece of advice:

Don't expect to be assigned an actual team truck. You'll likely be given a truck that has no 'team amenities' aside from 2 bunks.

*insert keyboard-warrior everyone's wrong except for (not) me comment*

:) I really need to read thru everything in more depth when I have more time.

Any tips you could provide in tracing the current ground for my antennae for possible rerouting or regrounding? I'd gladly do that if I haven't toasted these finals yet... :/

I'm pretty good with tech and learning how to do whatever I need to do to make something work, work better, and when I'm mad I know how to make them never work again. That said, I'd like to know if anyone here has some strong knowledge about CB radios and maybe even the model of truck I am using, that could answer my questions:

My Setup: 2013 International Prostar Eagle Midland 9001z CB One Wilson 2000 CB Antenna, screwed into the built in factory antenna mount on driver's mirror One Black-covered antenna with a cap labeled DIESEL

1) Why do I hear my window motors (and God knows what other 'noise') thru my (built-in truck) CB speaker if I turn my squelch all the way down?

2) Some drivers echo pretty bad when they're talking, making me want to just shut the radio off. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

3) Aside from tuning the CB using the instructions I've found of being between 1-1.5 on the SWR meter, are there any other ways I can improve reception quality and broadcast distance?