Re: OTR DRIVER NEEDED

Posted by The tractor vet on January 12, 2013 at 21:49:58 from (75.19.126.114):

In Reply to: Re: OTR DRIVER NEEDED posted by Ron/PA on January 12, 2013 at 14:54:17:

No when i went back on the road i was driving for a guy that had three trucks . The guy we had for a dispatcher was a total idiot . The girls i called were dispatchers with good companys ,like land star, ats and some others . No i did not set in truck stops just that one time as i sat for three days waiting for a load that never happened . and i was NOT setting till the following week . I did some hauling for this one company that was as i called it a trip lease load but we don't use them words these days and two weeks later i was back to haul another load out of this company that was about fifty miles from the barn. while i was waiting while they loaded another truck i got talking to the shipper , another FEMALE and she was telling me that she was glad that i had come for the laod as they were having problems getting there equipment hauled . we talked for about a half hour and when i was done and a call to the boss we had the contract to haul ALL and we could load ourselfs 24-7 as they would have what was going where setting in and area with paper work in the cabs . at the time we had the one RGn that i was pulling one step deck and one 50 ton lowboy and two flats and two box vans. in two months i had a new 40 ton RGN with outriggers and a third flip. I was taking one piece down to Baltimore when i saw a 99 I H 9400 setting at a dealers lot that was all set up for pulling a RGN and told the boss it was setting at our lot by friday and a second new RGN was bought . Then we got a call from a place that build tire presses and every other week i would haul a new tire press down to Wilson N. C. and after the fifth load of presses we got hooked into Keen and hauled new Cat loader and skidsteers out of the two plants down there to dealers east of the Mississippi . That made for and excellent week . and maybe take a short hop with a Grade all. It took two days on the tire presses to make the haul and get it setting at the plant and about and hour and ahalf to get it backed in and down the row of presses to where they could lift it off as there was limited room . The reason that we got the cal as told by the big man Paul at Firestone in Wilson is that the first tree presses that were hauled BEFORE i took my first one down was that all three were damaged in transit . On the first one that i took down before they even thought about taking it off the trailer we had to remove the tarps and they inspected it from top to bottom . I did not know Paul at the time as there were a bunch of people in white shirts with cameras taking pictures and climbing all over it loking . when this guy comes up to me and said there is no damage . well i hope not . Then he tells me that the other three had shiver damage to the tops and the control boxes . Then he asked me IF i could possibly back it in the building i told him that i could , he says the doors are only 12 feet the load was 11 foot and 11 3/4inch wide . I put 52 presses into that building over two years with out a mark on any of them . Those presses were ugly to haul they were vary top heavy and setting on the trailer at ride height they were 14.4 tall 11-113/4 wide with out the tarps and weight was a shade over 68000 lbs. That was pretty good money for that haul as drivers wages were just shy of 2500 . . No i was not a truck stop rat , if iwas in a truck stop it was for something to eat then sleep and i was gone just as soon as i could pull out due to permit restrictions as depending on how heavy how high and how wide you were you had to play by the rules if you were over 10 fot then you could not be within a major city area at certain times some states you had to be off the road before sunset and some a half hour after and some states if you had the correct marker lights on the load you could run all night No you never sat next to me that is one thing for sure . Maybe before i sold my truck back when it was fun and the old boys were still on the road where you knew just about everybody . Today it is changed somuch . Today your on your own not like back in the good old days if you had a problem on the road before you could get your flasher on there were four or five trucks pulling in behind you to help , no matter where you went you would run into somebody you knew . Back then yea we would stop with the guys and we would set and B/S for and hour or so or you would make a new friend along the way and ya would stop for a coffee and something to eat. Back then i did not have to worry about curfew i only had to worry about getting nailed for overload.

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