Comments By Noob_Driver

Just an FYI if you do start looking be careful filling out any forms online where you give out your email or phone number. These recruiters out here are savages and will not leave you alone. I filled out a form that I thought would be different because it was very detailed and I thought it was narrowing my search down to my specific preferences but nope. I hit submit and had 15 automated emails from different companies within seconds half of which were refer, tanker and flatbed which I didnt ask for. Some even contacted my company.

Got that from my dispatcher..... that was awkward.

Nothing major has changed. Pay went up slightly, they did scale back our trucks a bit by removing top bunks and tables. The biggest change was our shops cutting hours, that's the only thing that has been frustrating. My miles havent gone down at all and I have a bunch more terminals I have guaranteed parking at. Plus they've rebuilt our alvarado tx terminal, are rebuilding Cartersville GA as we speak and next up is Richfield WI when that's done.

A few weeks ago I hauled 46k lbs of blue moon and other various miller beers to be destroyed at liquid waste plant in Wisconsin. Very sad

A heavy beer load at Millis??? No way!!!

Not always! Sometimes its heavy paper or carpet rolls! It's actually very wierd when I have a light load I'm so used to the 44k+ ones. I'm pulling 15k worth of smoker wood chips to eau claire and Mont Eagle felt like goin up an overpass this morning.

A few weeks ago I hauled 46k lbs of blue moon and other various miller beers to be destroyed at liquid waste plant in Wisconsin. Very sad

I might be the worst recruiter ever, cant even get this dude to look at millis and he lives 20 minutes away from a school.

Yeah we have a terminal in cartersville that has a school. If memory serves class is 3 weeks long, after which you test out on site at the school for the state of georgia. After that its 15k miles with a trainer then you get your solo truck. I'm not sure on all the training details but I did do a whole diary on my class experience. Also pete e pothole is a trainer with millis now he might chime in.

That's good miles! Did you run out the 70?

Here's my recaps driving from a couple days ago:

Nice job keeping them all pretty close, do you always try to stay under 9hrs a day?

Heres mine I did well this week staying somewhat even.

I see it alot here at millis. The guys in the trailer shop tell the same story as mentioned before, curbs and potholes. They also said because we haul heavy beer loads so much that contributes to the problem. Not sure how that works exactly, maybe the way some people back. I see alot of guys pushing trailers straight and the wheels not moving much. I know that tears up tires and rips chucks out of our super singles but not sure it affects axles.

I know when we use it leaving a shipper or receiver for parking we're supposed to PC back to that spot when our breaks over and start on duty from that location, which is odd to me.

Back to the original topic/thread:

What's UP, @Noob Driver ?!?!? Did you just 'seed the lawn,' or ... buy sod, or ...

Find greener grass ?!?!?!

Hope all is well; we'd love to know!

~ Anne ~

ps: Apologies for the hijack; are you open to 'suggestions?'

Nothing yet, like I said originally I'm happy with Millis. But instead of standing at the fence looking over at the neighbors grass I'm more creeping at the upstairs window peeking through the blinds. Its gotta be a perfect situation, which I'm finding is very difficult to find. I would like something dedicated but I dont wanna do regional home weekly which seems to be all there is. I love my 3 weeks out 4 days off schedule and would like to keep that. Smith transport has a really cool fleet that's a dedicated walmart account that's three weeks out, one week off. But its PA, NJ, Ny and they weren't hiring in my area for that acct.