Profile For Bobcat_Bob

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?

What kind of preventables are we talking here? That will have a great bearing on who will hire you.

This guy certainly wouldn’t think so.

Looks like an average Central Transport trailer.

Parked next to this at a truck stop. Think he has a problem?

I expect a last minute deal as there usually is in these situations.

Hope your procedure helps Bobcat.

Thanks! so far no change :(

The return to driving however has served me a 💩 sandwich sideways nearly every day. All I can say is potholes can go eat a rather large bag of Richards 🤬

Been through Indiana lately? I swear driving through the corn fields would be smoother

Do you want to do RVs or Semi's and other larger vehicles? I wouldn't buy a pickup and trailer to do this for a long time, the market is very weak, Rvs and boat manufactures have a lot of layoffs this year.