Profile For ChefsJK

To get the shoulder of your shirt dirty while pulling the pin, especially when it is raining, ask me how I know, lol.

If it is a newer style 5th wheel try lifting it up and while lifting, pull diagonally towards the cab part while still keeping it lifted up. I have seen many drivers struggle with this.

Schneider doesn't allow those. They are pretty strict on you looking for a place to park when you get near your last hour of drive time. I know Rob was going to one of their drop yards so he already had that plan in motion, and oh yeah North Jersey traffic sucks so you will always have some sort of delay there unless you run between 0001 and 0330, then you will be good, lol.

Question.

If it was an unexpected delay ie not normal rush hour could you have used the 2 hour extension?

That's not yard jockeys, lol, that is just the previous driver being in a hurry or just lazy, lol. I used to see it all the time when I use to jockey, between that and never even doing a tug test, you see it all doing that job.

The trailer I just picked at Tractor Supply in Waverly, NE. Backed up to it real slow, looks kind of low....bounced off it with the tires! Had to lower the airbags AND crank it up about 3 inches. 12 degrees, windy and snowing sideways. Yard jockeys.....Grrrrr!

Unless you have a proper housing for the LED bulbs they will shoot the light everywhere and you will have no usable light, it just scatters. If you have a projector housing for the headlights which im assuming you don't since you work for Schneider? Just adjust the stock ones properly when you have the chance against a wall, there are two screws used for adjustment. And if your company allows to get led fog lights installed on your truck, a company called Rigid Industries makes DOT/SAE "street legal" fog lights, they are about $225 a set and they work wonderfully, i use them in my Jeep and cover the areas they need too.

I can certainly see why your confidence took a hit and makes you doubt things, but you also have to know that you did the right thing and anticipated a possible outcome and you were right, if you weren't thinking ahead that Prius woukd have been in your passenger seat with you, just remember that.

I used to do the same thing when I stayed there, lol.

I was going too, but I ordered pizza so I'll save some for the morning!

Enjoy the biscuits and gravy and free coffee at the Sleep Inn, lol.

I had my first truck troubles today, the starter went out on it. I was at our Carlisle OC having a problem fixed on the trailer I had when my starter went out, right in front of the shop...

So they gave me a loaner truck to finish delivering my load which was to a place in Carlisle as well, then booked me a hotel room since my truck wasn't supposed to be in the shop until the 24th, but by the time I got back... It was in the shop!

But they said I could stay in the room tonight anyways to get a good night sleep and go pick my truck up tomorrow. So nothing to bad!

Where in Virginia would you have been coming from? I used to have the same Friday delivery right in Richmond off of 95, so I either went the back wag, which I believe was Rt. 1 to Rt 13 in Delaware, but don't quote me on that one it has been awhile or I used to go 495 to 270 to Rt 15 then to I76 to bring ne to Fairless Hills, PA that would take the same amount of time as driving up 95 in rush hour traffic, but I would be moving the whole time either of the other ways.

If you go around the DC area the back way through Delaware and come out right near 295 you should be ok. Where in South Jersey is your pick up?

It's too late now but, in the future that could be an option. I have no idea what roads to take though. Have you done this? What is your suggested route? My pickup is off exit 10 on 295.

Enjoy the biscuits and gravy and free coffee at the Sleep Inn, lol.

I had my first truck troubles today, the starter went out on it. I was at our Carlisle OC having a problem fixed on the trailer I had when my starter went out, right in front of the shop...

So they gave me a loaner truck to finish delivering my load which was to a place in Carlisle as well, then booked me a hotel room since my truck wasn't supposed to be in the shop until the 24th, but by the time I got back... It was in the shop!

But they said I could stay in the room tonight anyways to get a good night sleep and go pick my truck up tomorrow. So nothing to bad!

Are you in a A class truck or a B class? Im assuming B class since you are doing residential deliveries. And if that's the case, that is about right I would say. Most class A drivers start around that for hourly around where I live in New Jersey.