With Navajo.

Nice!!! Your first solo run. That's the biggie...the training wheels come off and you're a real truck driver!

Nice!!! Your first solo run. That's the biggie...the training wheels come off and you're a real truck driver!

It hasn't happened yet, but either today or tomorrow. I'll keep everyone posted.

Dave

I have my own truck. It is getting cleaned out right now. I have a local run later on tonight. I pick it up and bring it back to the yard, and then a team takes it in the morning.

Dave

Congratulations Dave, and best of luck to ya!

Congratulations Dave, and best of luck to ya!

Thanks. I might have to use a daycab for this local run tonight.

Dave

Well I was taken off a load and put on another. I am waiting to relay a load to New Mexico. I wonder if my relay got lost?

Dave

Getting relays - or "re-powers" as they're often referred to by many companies - are often times a nightmare because either the driver you're waiting on lies about his E.T.A. or dispatch does. I don't know why they'll do that but it happens all the time. "Yeah, he'll be there in 3 hours"....five hours go by....seven hours go by....it drives you insane.

Getting relays - or "re-powers" as they're often referred to by many companies - are often times a nightmare because either the driver you're waiting on lies about his E.T.A. or dispatch does. I don't know why they'll do that but it happens all the time. "Yeah, he'll be there in 3 hours"....five hours go by....seven hours go by....it drives you insane.

With this relay. She was delayed going in to pick up, in California. I had been up since six waiting in Arizona. The relay took place around 1 p.m. Like an idiot, I went on duty, thinking I could make it to Albuquerque by around nine or ten at night. I finaly was put on the load shortly after 6 p.m. local time. I had been off duty until that time , but...I was on duty earlier to accept the relay and do my pre-trip. Well nothing came on the Qualcomm. I must still be good.

Dave

Can sombody explain what a relay is, or better way to say that is why does a relay happen? Just wondering, that is a new one for me.

Can sombody explain what a relay is, or better way to say that is why does a relay happen? Just wondering, that is a new one for me.

A relay is when one person picks up the load, and another person delivers it. It might happen because one person, or a team might have requested "home time."

Dave