Location:
Sturgis, MI
Driving Status:
Experienced Driver
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Married my high school sweetheart and have 8 children, currently 3 at home. Wife and I became Catholic in 1990 and now attend Traditional Latin Mass.
Retired from Abbott Nutrition after 22 yrs. most time spent in the energy center where we provided high pressure steam (up to ~460#), variety of cooling waters, HVAC, soft water, compressed air (~90#) and nitrogen. We did maintenance to our equipment, boilers, air compressors, chillers, cooling towers, water softeners, and whatever else.
Drove 20-25 yard garbage trucks, hence my rumble.com/trshm4n channel, starting April of '22 to Oct of '22.
Went to a sponsored school with Keller Trucking located in Defiance, OH. Keller has been great every step of the way; awesome company. They've been on the "Best Fleet to Work For" list for 7 years! Now they have "Hall of Fame" status. Be sure to tell them John Steele, (the driver), referred you!
Recently changed my personal truck plate to reflect the new career, hence the nickname.
If you're interested in beginning a new career, continue to look around Trucking Truth! There is a ton of education materials here and a ton of posts with excellent advice. A very mature site with professional drivers with many years of driving and trucking business experience. Go to the menu for a list of categories to get you started. Any questions, jump in and post; many new drivers here, too, that can benefit from the question.
Posted: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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Not the end to 2024 and start to 2025 I wanted
Ouch! Hope it heals quickly. Hand pain sure can be especially bad. And hope it works out well with your next truck.
Posted: 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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Wondered about Anne from time to time since I had't seen her on the forum in a long time. Prayers for her and the family.
Posted: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Thoughts on what might have caused this?
Quite the mystery!
Posted: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Thoughts on what might have caused this?
A rock flung from the other side of the highway? Just big enough to smack off the glass, never be found again. Or it did come through and you found it but didn't make the connection?
Could a bird... Nah, suppose there would be some evidence of that.
Golf ball? Who's playing in December?
Stray pellet from shot gun blast? Maybe had enough velocity and small enough to be overlooked, or bounced off the glass. Similar to what you were saying about a bullet.
Do you have those wind wings, or whatever they're called, that wrap around the A pillar? Maybe caught a rock from the front and it was funnelled around and hit right near the front edge of the window? Probably bounced off in the process.
Posted: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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I'm scheduled for having the Holidays off. However, the company would pay a bonus if it is worked.
Posted: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Gosh, doing great, other than the biggest scheduling goof I ever made occurred this last week.
I was planning a route that allowed for some tolls in one state but not allow tolls in another state. To accomplish that, I created a waypoint to head towards that would allow for a rather direct path to my destination without tolls, or at least very little tolls. That was all looking good.
The next morning, as I was going down the road, I noticed that the arrival time predicted by the gps was not looking at the destination, but rather, the waypoint. Doh! I quickly called dispatch after discovering this error and explained that I'll be 2.5 hrs late.
Posted: 4 months ago
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My thought was, if this driver continues to pass up exits, I'd call it in. Seems an accident just waiting to happen and who knows just how bad it might be if it decides to let go, or the hold-up of traffic to get it cleaned up would entail.
Posted: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Never Say Never
Good luck with everything, PJ. I get the sense you'll do an excellent job with growing the business, though.