Profile For Bobcat_Bob

Honestly, if they are willing to give you a chance when nobody else will, I wouldn't be worried too much about what others have to say about them.

Your options are limited don't get picky, or listen to others negative experiences and go in with a crappy attitude.

Get a year of safe driving in and more doors will open in the future.

Wow, that is extremely unfortunate. She always seemed like she genuinely cared about helping people. I was always impressed how she'd come up with the most random companies, when someone was struggling to find employment.

I'm sure you have your own system

I do, normally I double check everything after I get my locks off. Today I got in a rush and forgot to do that, which ended up biting me.

Not to many sounds I hate more than hearing the thud of the Gladhands smacking against the back of the cab.

With our Freightliners they can come through the back window. So you end up needing new lines, a new window and a new seat.

I forgot to roll down the legs on my rear trailer, it hit the ground with a solid thud. They had to send 2 forklifts out to lift the nose so I could crank legs down.

They wanted me to park the trailer in a door, when I pulled in I saw a trailer already in it. When I was breaking down my set a spotter drove by and I tried to hurry to catch him, to see what he wanted me to do. But I forgot something.

I made the same mistake almost exactly 7 years ago when I had only been driving two months. Unfortunately, it is probably going to cost me my safe miles and saftey bonus.

I'm a tad confused here, why did the doctor send you home without being able to produce a sample in only 20 minutes? I had the same problem with not being able to go enough when I went for my permit test. They put me in a room with water and given 3 hours.

It is made extremely clear if you leave without producing a sample it is considered a refusal which is the same as a failure.

I'm not sure I'm buying the doctor giving you 20 minutes and then telling you to leave and not worry about it.

Your face a extremely difficult to impossible road to fix this now. You have a drug refusal which is the same as a failure whilst in school, I don't see any company giving you a shot right now, especially with the current market.

All the runs we have after 11 pm are tonight are canceled, so I'm off Thursday and Friday. I am supposed to work my normal Saturday but it's slow and they do not think there will be any freight for us to run. If I don't run Saturday it will give me a nice 5 day weekend.

How does the extra board work? Are you basically "on call?" Do they just let you know about runs that come available on a daily basis, and you decide if you want to take it

It depends on the terminal some places you call in and they tell you what is available. You might be able to chose what you want or they may make you do a run if they need it.

For me, I have a scheduled start time so if there is anything extra left over from over night I'll get it. Unfortunately right now we are around 40 loads short a night, I'm hoping with people being on vacation next few weeks it will pick up.

Makes for a busy time when hauling groceries but it usually slows way down after the holidays

Put busy time was about a month or two ago and it wasnt very busy. We generally slow down this time of the year, stores have everything they need for the holidays and shipping slows down until next year.

That's a nice week! Unfortunately I'm having the opposite experience right now.

the driver next to me started going on about how this job sucks and he didn't understand why he keeps doing it.

Might have been me, I've been kinda grumpy lately with the unknowns about my run and traffic I've been stuck in.

The only improvements I would make are having my wife on board and my truck having a full kitchen and bathroom/shower

Start casually suggesting they buy you one of the triple ARI legacy sleepers.

Corporate took my run out behind the barn and put it out their misery. I was running down to Austin IN and meeting a driver from our Morristown TN terminal which is one of our largest. Morristown has about 580ish linehaul drivers we have 50 for reference. Despite their size they struggled finding freight to run upto me, so they'd cancel the meet and just run me to Indy from there they would relay the freight to Morristown.

They put me on the extra board for now until we bid again in January. Unfortunately, it's pretty slow so I was already off twice this week. But on the upside I did get to go to our Detroit terminal for the first time yesterday so that was fun.

Greg random question, did you drive trucks in the military and or rent a 26 foot Penske or Uhaul truck to move recently?