Boy What A Start

Dang. Me and my fellow team driver got to the terminal Monday morning. To take our truck, move our stuff in. Truck was not clean, still had the other guys tools and what not in it. We were supposed to just hook up to a pre loaded and hit the road to new jersy. We grab the first set of paper work, go ride the yard, no trailer. Go back to dispatch. The trailer is still at the plant, not loaded. Wait a few hours and then the second set of paper work is ready. It was rescheduled. Now the 3 rd trailer is the charm, dispatch says we can unload no matter what time we get there. We get there at 1830, the plant is closed, they stopped taking stuff at 1500. So we had to find a truck stop and sleep. Which is a real waste of a team set up, in my opinion. The next morning we unload. Dispatch calls and says they got a truck broke down in Virginia, going to the plant we just left. As we are driving down there to rescue the load, I notice the lights on my control panel are out. My engine break comes on and off by its self, and my air horn is inop. So now we are waiting at the international service center. Hope next week is better. I am not impressed at all with internationals and Mack trucks. And plus the fact that it's an automatic really sucks lol

Awful! That is a bad start! You're the second person today that's told us they've been having bad luck lately. Maybe it's something in the air?

Note to circus performers: No high wire acts this week. Postponed. Luck reserves have run dry.

Hang in there! Hopefully they'll get that truck fixed up, you'll get on a good schedule in the right freight lanes, and you'll be running your brains out before you know it.

Take the good with the bad, that's what I tell myself when I have such day, a prayer in the morning doesn't hurt either, hang in there guys things will get better, they have to.

Awful! That is a bad start! You're the second person today that's told us they've been having bad luck lately. Maybe it's something in the air?

Note to circus performers: No high wire acts this week. Postponed. Luck reserves have run dry.

Hang in there! Hopefully they'll get that truck fixed up, you'll get on a good schedule in the right freight lanes, and you'll be running your brains out before you know it.

I feel like I've been in CR forever. I needed to come in for routine service, an alignment, new tires but also my bunk ac has been on the fritz. So they sent my truck over to Truck Country for the routine service and ac work. They got my truck yesterday morning. Thought they'd found the ac problem by 5pm ish and didy oil change.. realized bunk ac still wasn't working right, kept my truck overnight, brought it back late this morning. Bunk ac still a no go. Our shop manager had them come back to get my truck and it's over there now. Sure hope they get it fixed as I'm completely bored. Supposed to go home this weekend, but I've been here going on 2 days and thinking.. why bother going home now.. already itching to be back on the road.

I feel like I've been in CR forever. I needed to come in for routine service, an alignment, new tires but also my bunk ac has been on the fritz. So they sent my truck over to Truck Country for the routine service and ac work. They got my truck yesterday morning. Thought they'd found the ac problem by 5pm ish and didy oil change.. realized bunk ac still wasn't working right, kept my truck overnight, brought it back late this morning. Bunk ac still a no go. Our shop manager had them come back to get my truck and it's over there now. Sure hope they get it fixed as I'm completely bored. Supposed to go home this weekend, but I've been here going on 2 days and thinking.. why bother going home now.. already itching to be back on the road.

CR = Cedar Rapids, IA? im over in Des Moines.. i drove for Heartland Express last year, was not impressed with Truck Country there in Cedar.... they tend to take their sweet time.. Had to have 2 sensors on the engine replaced and pretty much sat there..... did do a few "local" runs with a day cab but was only 100-200Mi trip so it was mainly to keep me occupied ...

Good luck there...

Its par for the course. Welcome to trucking. We picked up a reefer yesterday and I got a low voltage message

Took it to Petro that had us wait six hours before telling us the alternator is bad and they can't get one. So then I go 20 miles north of my first shipper to the Carrier dealer which opens at 0700. But....the mechanics don't come in until 0800. So here I sit.

What urks me is that someone else dropped this bad trailer which I never do.....and somehow I still get a ton of miles, so taking the time to fix stuff won't kill you lol. This should be in one of Brett's articles.

Honestly, my friend is teaming with me currently and dispatch has been driving us into the ground. So the break was appreciated lol we got to eat, shower and use the resteoom ...yippee lol