Profile For Phil K.

I get free showers at the Flying J (and Pilot) because my company fuels there. This morning I went in to take a shower at the one in Lebanon, IN and I noticed that it is now $25 for a shower there. I thought my rewards card had been scanned twice at first, but I was told that they just hiked them from $16 a few days ago. Reading reviews other Flying J's in the area it seems they are up to $25 now as well. I've always thought that $15 was on the high side, but $25 is getting quite ridiculous.

When I started in 2019 most PFJ's charged $12 and most Loves and TA's were at $15. I'm not sure what Loves and TA charges these days. I stay mostly at mom and pops and they are still usually $10 or less.

So I'm aware that a lot of the Pilot stations are rebranding as OneNine's, and that PFJ still owns them. My question is does anyone know if PFJ points, like shower credits, etc, work at OneNine stops? My company only uses PFJ, and they've yet to send me to a rebranded OneNine, so I have no idea and I've never tried using points at any of them yet.

For me I would have to choose I-80 in Wyoming because of the crazy winds and the less than ideal winter weather. To be fair anytime I am west of the central states (Dakota's, NE, KS, OK, TX) I am always checking the weather for the day before I head out.

As for everyday interstates I run on a lot (basically everything east of the central states), I hate every interstate with lots of trucks, which might sound hypocritical. Personally I-70 between Indianapolis and Columbus for whatever reason might be the one I dislike the most. It seems to be under perpetual construction and half the time there's a wreck on it.

75 and 95 in Florida are kind of annoying because of the traffic. It always seems to be a mixture of 90 year olds poking around and young guns trying to set speed records. 4 is completely awful. Parking in Florida is a joke. 75 between Chattanooga and Macon sucks too. 95 between Richmond and Boston is common sense bad.

I think some of you may be right. This "stuff" came up rather quickly and I've been pretty stressed out about it in general. I probably rushed myself into a bad decision.

I'm going to call my dispatcher and try to work something out. If I could take a 30 day LOA and add my remaining vacation to the time off I think I'll stay. I need more than 30 days to get done what I need to get done, but I think I could make 40 days work.

Not sure where to begin, so I'll start with the basic overview. I've been driving for nearly 3 years and I just recently put in my 2 week notice.

I have a lot of "stuff" going on in my home life that I don't want to get into, but nevertheless I need to take care of. The company really wants me to take a 30 day LOA and is trying to talk me out of actually quitting, but to be honest I am just really burnt out from the job in general and just need a couple months away from it to regain my excitement for it again. I actually like my job and what I do, but I just need a break if you know what I mean. Unfortunately between the things I need to get taken care of and some other things I want to do in general, 30 days just isn't enough time off to accomplish everything.

The company has already indicated that they want me to come back even if I do walk away for a bit. I don't know, what do you all think? Have any of you ever had to just catch a breather for a bit?

If they try to force this on the trucking industry then the mega carriers need to get together and just the country down for a couple of days and show the government who's actually in charge. If people think the supply chain sucks now, just wait until we shut it down or the estimated 37% of us walk away.

A little vaccine isn't going to force me to quit my job. It's will be just another requirement in a long list of requirements.

That's right RealDiehl! Don't let it stop you! A "little vaccine" wasn't gonna stop Rikipedia, either!

I recently announced the passing of our old friend, Rikipedia. Turns out, no one asked what happened. He informed me shortly before passing that he got vaxxed a few weeks prior. One month after the vax......dead.

But sure, RiehlDeal, it's only another requirement.......just like:

• two weeks to flatten the curve
• a mask is a small ask
• social distance because don't you love your grandma?
• close your business and bankrupt yourself because don't you love America?
• yet another lockdown
• mask mandates if you're not vaxxed
• no employment if you're not vaxxed
• and soon to be no access to society and "safety camps" for those not vaxxed

We must stop going along with the government and telling ourselves that it's business as usual when they violate the Constitution, violate the Nuremberg Code, censor people, cancel people, take away their employment, and soon take away their freedom.

I'm sure the people of Australia thought they would "earn" their freedom back if they would just comply. Turns out they were very, very wrong!

I'm appalled that some people still don't get what's happening after 18 months of watching this tyranny and seeing what they're doing to people around the world.

Folks, they have one option only, and that is our compliance. We will not comply. No testing, no vaxxing.

If we don't decry this mandate as dead on arrival, many of us will soon be dead ourselves. Learn from Australia. Do not comply.

This post is 100% on the money.

I'll also add that even if everyone in America was vaccinated, it wouldn't matter as long as we keep letting people into this country. None of these variants (or the virus itself) that I'm aware of started in the USA. Meanwhile we let every illegal and refugee come here and this same government gives them the choice to be vaccinated. It's quite shocking.

I'll be curious to see if this applies to truckers or not since we don't work in a workplace with 100 other people. If it does then I expect there will be major shortages throughout our society including fuel.

It has been discussed inside the Beltway that you may need a vaccine passport to do interstate travel in the US. So the government won't let you work unless you do what they say and they may not let you travel without your papers. Sounds a lot like like the beginnings of Communism to me.

Does this mean 100 in one workplace or 100 total? Like Dollar General has thousands of employees but one location might only have a dozen employees. Truck drivers might work directly with one driver (aka a team).

Regardless I'm not taking the vaccine and I'm also not getting tested weekly. I'll let them fire me, and I'll go find a small business or small trucking operation. I guess that's my "thanks" from Biden for hauling freight cross country during the pandemic.

Who do you work for? At CFI I could keep my truck for that amount of time. I'm taking a little over two weeks off in December and my truck will be in it's usual spot.

Speak with your fleet manager and or HR department.

Have fun.

I'll have to ask and see then. I may have gotten bad information and I don't even remember who I heard the 10 day thing from. I do have two weeks PTO now, so if I could use that PTO during consecutive weeks and keep my truck that would work out perfectly.

Driving to Cabo and back takes 10-11 days and 2-3 days of free time is way more than enough for me. I mainly just want to go see mountains and views of the Pacific Ocean / Sea of Cortez on the trip anyways and see what the Baja is about. Sitting at the beach all day isn't my thing. Just want to take a relaxing cruise and see what I find along the highway where I can actually stop for a few minutes and check something out, unlike when I'm in my truck and have to keep trucking. I love road tripping which is what got me into the trucking in the first place and it's the best decision I ever made.

I work for a mega carrier and have been with them for over 2 years now. I'm thinking about trying to take a leave of absence in February 2022 so I can go travel the Baja California peninsula and just relax for a bit. Has anyone ever done that before and if so how did it go? I've talked to some other drivers at my company that have told me that they have quit and had no problem getting hired back and were even able to keep their original hire date. However I'm not looking to quit, I'd just like to take a little break, get out of my truck, and go somewhere nice during arguably the worst month for trucking.

I also won't be 26 yet, so the health insurance doesn't matter for me since I'm still on my parents plan. A lot of people are telling I me I should take the break and go for that fact alone and since I don't have kids and whatnot. I don't fly anywhere, strictly drive and it takes 2 weeks minimum to drive from Indiana to Cabo.

I might only end up just taking 8-10 days off (I have 2 weeks PTO), but I think anything over 10 days off I have to turn the truck in. Just kind of looking for some opinions and interested in what others have done. Also a lot depends on the virus and what restrictions the government(s) put in place.