An Update!

Keith, this is a trucking forum and not necessarily where I best employ my teacher or mom hats. But know that your comment above, about not thinking you have much to say here, gave me pause when I read it.

I'm so glad that others jumped right on that with collegial support. I looked over your comment history to refresh my impressions before I wrote anything myself.

What I expected to rediscover is all there - breaking down a little the wisdom gleaned in trials across two successful years, not a small accomplishment: shared facts, information, anecdotals, reflections, some light comeraderie ..... what else is there in any recipe for effective collegial sharing?

This forum is for newcomers. I can only speak for myself but in complete agreement with Rob D., I'm picking up much from your posts in building my background knowledge and fitting together the many, many discrete pieces comprising this industry to learn about.

Synergy is a sum that's greater than the parts! Keep writing!

and stay safe and well out there.

Congratulations Keith!

Snap a photo of your new truck magnet if you have a chance.

Keep up the awesome work. What did knight give you for your 250k miles?

Congratulations Keith!

Snap a photo of your new truck magnet if you have a chance.

One pretty spiffy magnet (that I need to remember to take to work with me to actually put on the truck, it's on my fridge right now), a few 250k pins, and some shirts (all the wrong size so now I'm waiting for a medium to get shipped to the office).

And thanks to all of the rest of you, this is definitely a place with a lot of people whose opinions I respect so it means a lot to hear all the encouragement. Might be a case of not being able to the forest for the trees but it's just... sort of hard to see what I've done right when I know all the things I've managed to make a right mess of. XD I'm aiming to get my million miles safe though, and at this rate it'll be another six or seven years to that mark, if I'm driving trucks that long.