.. and going

Friday morning we got a trip and a pre-plan for the rest of the weekend. We picked up at Fel-Pro in Chicago and delivered it on Saturday in Levonia Georgia, right by the South Carolina borber off I85. Then we went to Atlanta for a glass load to deliver in Allentown PA at 4 am Monday. That's where we are now. We have been driving team using up all of our hours. As long as we are doing this I'm fine. Sleeping and driving makes the days go by and we don't get on each others nerves this way.

Still going

We got a Menards load today and delivered it. I drove to near by Beloit IL and parked for tonight. My trainer is hurting for miles but all I care about right now is that I get to drive at least 4 hours every day. Freight is really bad right now. I hate to drop at the big customers because it seems that theres always a bunch of drivers already sitting there waiting for a load. I need to drive somewhere every day to finish this thing up. Millis requires that you drive a minimum of 4 hours for the day for it to count. I drove 6+ hrs today but at least I got to walk around a nice Menards store and get away by myself for a while.

2 weeks done

I have 15 of the 35 days in the books. I should have had 5 more days done but my trainer had a 4 day time at home and we sat a day in Ft Worth with no freight. I can't complain about his tah because he had been out 3 weeks before picking me up. He is a single guy and he let me go to his house. I slept in the truck but got to shower and use his kitchen and tv. We even went to the opening night at the local speedway and saw some races.

If we can drive for the next 20 days I will then be able to test for my truck. By then I will have been away from home about 7 weeks. It will then depend on where I test as to how long it will take to get home. It really bites. I have had a lot of thoughts of giving it up because I'm driving, planning and doing everthing as well or better than I was when I left. Still, I have to do 20 more days living with some one else in their little T6. So far I have been able to convince myself to stick it out. I know I will be fine after I get my own truck. As long as we are moving I'm ok.

Any way, we are in Minneapolis with a load we brought over from Buffalo.

So far so good

I missed the orientation in Cartersville GA so I hitched a ride up to Richfield WI on March 28.
Started orientation on the 31st with one experienced new hire, one other re-hire and six new MTI grads. I got picked up by a trainer on April 3. I was quite disappointed to find out that I was going to have to do five weeks with a trainer. Still, I'll take my medicine and make the best of it.

It's going well. I'm back to where I was except for backing. My set up is a little off. We are in a T600 and it's harder to back than the T2000 that I had.

So far, after starting out in Richfield we have gone to Coon Rapids MN, near Syracuse NY, Niagra Falls NY, just south of Gary IN, Chicago, Columbus OH, Trenton OH, East St Louis IL and Ft Worth Texas where we are right now.Four more weeks. I'm going to sleep now. All I want to do is drive and sleep untill this is over and I get my own truck.