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Empty or loaded, Jamie?

It was loaded, we got a fleet wide message about it as well. They are offering a reward for information that lead to the recovery of the trailer and its contents.

So today, someone literally drove a Ryder day cab into our terminal in Marietta, GA, stole a trailer and busted through the outbound gate. Just wow, the balls some people have.

Forgot to mention, this wouldnt have happened if I didn't take my 10 hour break when I did before I picked this load up. Currently still driving the recovery truck I picked up, will be getting my truck back in two days. Its finally out of the shop.

I was set to spend Thanksgiving away from my friends and family this year, when this morning another trucker buddy called me just to chat. I asked him where was they(team drivers) was at today to make small talk and he told me he was heading west on i70 outside of Columbus, Ohio, I thought what are the odds? I'm heading east on i70 for Columbus ohio... to make a long story short, we ended up stopping at a Denny's for breakfast, and I got to meet his team driver as well. It was pretty refreshing, and highly appreciated since it was nice to see someone I actually knew instead of strangers.

It was short lived since we both had to head out and didnt have time to talk for to long, but I thought to myself what are the odds? Since we don't talk everyday.

Happy Thanksgiving! I will not be home personally by choice, I was offered to be routes by the house but decided against it.

Not sure about that, I do know the 2020 fraightliner I drove while with Schneider rode smoother than the 2016 I had before that.

Down in Fort Smith, AR. Waiting to see if I'm supposed to bobtail back or what.

So does another driver pick you up and drop you off at the location of the truck needing recovered or do you get a rental?

They're getting me a rental car.

All day and haven't heard anything yet, aren't really share just yet. But Crete set me up to do a truck recovery, basically 800 miles both ways.

Is it a Freightliner? They have a big problem with the exhaust temperature sensors it thinks the exhaust is extremely hot so it shuts the engine down with no warning. Once it sits for awhile its fine again, still something you want to get fixed so it doesnt shut off unexpectedly.

Yes it's a fraightliner, currently getting checked into the shop now.

Got back to my truck this morning to check it into the shop, the fault code was still active, turned the truck on for a few minutes and turned it off, now the code is gone.

Still going to see what the shops says since the engine went into shutdown mode yesterday.

I was wondering how the company would do the hotel if it were two of you?

Hmm that's a good question, I'd assume it'd be about the same way. I actually got to pick the hotel I wanted to stay at, just had to be close by. They had me go to the hotel and get the price after taxes, phone number and fax number and asked to try to keep it under $100.

Just you, or is your wife there, as well?

It's just me for right now, my wife is getting some things sorted out at home medical wise. But she'll be back out on the road with me in no time! When I said "we" in my last post, I meant me and the tow truck driver.

He doubles as an Uber driver!

Definitely Top Tier status IMO.

For sure, and a very nice guy! 5 stars!

But I did end up getting an Uber back to my truck, because I forgot a few things and the most important part... I forgot to put the BOL with the trailer when we dropped it off since the load had to be repowered to make the delivery on time.

I'm hoping the problem is something simple that doesn't take to long to fix, but we shall see!

Good luck, you got this!

They should know that.

Not any dealerships open on a Sunday.

Yeah the tow truck driver told me the same thing, I didn't know personally; I was just going wherever Crete paid to have the truck towed. The tow truck driver was nice enough to drive me to a hotel in town.

Also what was odd is the truck was kinda left beside the gate that leads back to the shop, hopefully that isn't going to be a problem. Which I'm sure it'll be fine as Crete was probably aware the dealership wasn't open today?

I'll bet it's a DPF issue, and/or associated computers with it.

How many miles?

Most likely, sadly the dealership was closed today but they set me up in a hotel room.

The truck has 430,000 miles, give or take in that general range.

Fight lane....

I meant the right lane.