Profile For Bobcat_Bob

Have you tried looking in Aurora? There are a ton of trucking companies there. ABC supply is hiring a driver there.

Hogan is hiring a yard spotter in Dekalb that might be worth apply to.

Doubles/triples is just a written test, however LTL work is slow right now.

Your list of requirements is fairly unrealistic, especially considering the current state of trucking. You may need to drop a few of them for at least a year.

The crazy thing to me was Jack Cooper tried to buy Yellow Freight for 1.2 Billion then in December 23 now a little over a year later they needed their customers to invest in them. GM rejected a $200 million investment from a 3rd party that Cooper had secured. Now they are out of business.

Jack Cooper transport who hauled cars for Ford and GM, lost both contracts in the last 2 months and announced they are closing after nearly 100 years.

Sounds like 2,500 drivers are now looking for work.

Jack Cooper Transport closing after nearly 100 years

Ouch, I’ve heard and seen people we these newer trucks having problems all over

A lot of our 25 Freightliners have had problems I've heard. My previous meet guy had one that would just derate to 55 randomly but it wouldn't say anything on the dash about why.

What is your run now? Don’t think you’ve mentioned that yet.

I have a 10 am meet in Richmond IN, I meet a driver from Columbus OH then I head to Chicago.

It's about a 12 hour day unfortunately, but it's like 2200ish a week so there's a trade off.

I was towed today for the second time in 2 weeks. 2 weeks ago it was 2025 tractor that freaked out on me randomly and derated me. First the dashboard radar started going nuts, then the check engine and stop engine lights came on and it slowed me down. After I pulled onto the shoulder I let it sit for a few minutes and it was saying to put truck in neutral to start while it was in neutral, so it wouldn't let me start it. Finally it let me drive a few miles to a off ramp and they sent a tow truck to pick me up.

Since my truck is still at a dealer in Indy I've been using this one 2018 with 890k miles on it, other than the seat sinking while driving it was running good. However today it decided to be difficult, the check engine light came on and the truck kept accelerating on it own! I shut the cruise control off coming into the construction zone but the truck kept trying to speed up, I tried the cruise cancel button, even shut it off but it kept trying to accelerate. I was able to use the brakes to slow down but if I let off the pedal it would start speeding up. I got pulled over and stopped on the shoulder when I put the truck in neutral it started revving up on its own.

Luckily I get breakdown pay at our hourly rate so I am not out any money, just aggerating days. It had been about 5 years since I late needed a tow, now I've had 2 in 2 weeks.

This is why I like linehaul, I get the "open" road of OTR while still being home everyday.

Even though the new run I started this week is 12+ hours, I am still able to spend a few hours at home and separate myself from the job. something I didn't feel like I could do in a sleeper truck.

I think you should he able to do it, we have some older P&D guys and they can handle it. The amount of physical work all depends on the company and routes they have.

Some of our guys bump the dock and don't even touch the freight, the customer takes it off or on. Sometimes, they might bump the dock and move the freight themselves. That could range from a single pallet to a trailer floor loaded with boxes.

We have lift gate trailers so, some places require you to move the freight onto it and lower it to the ground. From what I've heard residential lift gate deliveries are the worst. You have to navigate a residential neighborhood and then deal with a customer who isn't used to freight deliveries and may have unreasonable expectations.

Congratulations on both!

I wonder if you meet a COH driver in London?

We used to meet in London but they shortened it 15 miles to Richmond IN. It was too difficult for our drivers to make the meet, and make Chicago. The COH drivers we meet, go to the SmI meet as well.

Hey Bob - picking up for you at all yet?

It was going OK until about 3 week ago, I've been off twice a week last 3 weeks. I was even called off Friday and Saturday 2 weeks ago.

Lots of runs heading west to meet Indy were being canceled on a weekly basis - 2-3 times a week at the worst of it

I am not surprised, I was there a monthish ago and they literally had no trailers on the relay side of the yard and only a handful of ones they closed.

That sucks getting your run yanked from corporate...it happens. Happened to me about 7 years ago, but I was able to grab a new run they posted for a couple months until rebid.

Yeah it sucked, it had been rumored for awhile but they out it off for a few weeks. Best part was they didn't even tell my terminal, I was heading down there on a Saturday and called me meet guy to let him know I was early. He was like they cut the run days ago lol

Luckily, our new runs start next week and this one I took is pretty much never canceled. I will be back to meeting a COH driver and then going to Chicago, so it will be long days but good consistent miles. Plus it has a 10 am gate time so I get to sleep in.