Bad Month

This month sucked... I am just complaining so no one take it too seriously.

It has seemed like all the fates decided I wasn't going to move around this month. I've sat because of the first ice storm, whatever it's name was. Then I sat because my company didn't see fit to give me chains but wanted me over donner's pass. (that was a 5 day wait...) Then I got to sit because I had a light load and Wyoming closed parts of the I80 because of high winds. Then I sat because, somehow, my coolant lines to my transmission got a pinhole leak. The leak sprayed directly on the transmission so I never could find any fluid. When I turned off the truck the pressure from the system dropped so fast that by the time I got out, it wasn't spraying anymore. Talk about vanishing coolant. And the jerks that thought I couldn't tell my fluid levels.... Let's not go there. Waiting on those repairs... 6 days. Did I mention that my truck at that point had less than 50k miles? How the heck did it already find a way to break!?

Tonight, I will be shut down again because of high winds. Well, technically my husband will be. I won't be getting home on time because of this stinking run of light loads.

Oh, and most of my running has been rescuing loads from other drivers who were stupid enough to keep on driving even though the conditions were bad. So the lesson was pounded in this month that even though I was broke, at least I wasn't broken.

February sucked horribly.. I'm hoping that after my home time (which I will be attempting to get my hazmat on) things will improve.

Oh! I nearly forgot, if you are getting your hazmat! Make sure you take your hazmat test FIRST then your FBI background check. Otherwise you have to pay for a second background test. Ask me how I know this. It sure wasn't the website for Texas.

I hope you guys had a better month than I did and that your next month is much nicer than this one has been.

Wow, that really was a tough month! You'll get stretches like that it seems. For a week or a month, nothing goes right. Then suddenly for a month is seems God feels like you've paid your dues and suddenly everything just starts rolling beautifully for ya.

Trucking is such a roller coaster ride. It's tough to keep a clear mind and a positive attitude when things aren't going well. But I know for me, experience taught that everything out there is just temporary so I used to just roll with it. When things were going good I made the most of it and when they weren't I tried not to let it get to me because I knew they'd turn around soon enough.

Here's to a great March for you guys!!! Before long you'll be cruisin down sun-drenched, heat-soaked highways enjoying the scenery, loving the air conditioning. and counting your blessings.

Wow, that really was a tough month! You'll get stretches like that it seems. For a week or a month, nothing goes right. Then suddenly for a month is seems God feels like you've paid your dues and suddenly everything just starts rolling beautifully for ya.

Trucking is such a roller coaster ride. It's tough to keep a clear mind and a positive attitude when things aren't going well. But I know for me, experience taught that everything out there is just temporary so I used to just roll with it. When things were going good I made the most of it and when they weren't I tried not to let it get to me because I knew they'd turn around soon enough.

Here's to a great March for you guys!!! Before long you'll be cruisin down sun-drenched, heat-soaked highways enjoying the scenery, loving the air conditioning. and counting your blessings.

Thanks! Even our fleet manager was as upset as we were. He had us beautiful plans set out and then something would happen. At one time he had us preplanned for a whole week and some VERY good miles. From what I have gathered from other drivers, we seem to be a favorite. He doesn't treat us as bad as he treats some of the other drivers. I wonder if it has anything to do with the loaf of jalapeno bread I send him each time we get home time. :)

Sometimes murphy's law will set ontop of your truck for weeks...but then, you will go months and not have anything happen...Thats Truckin' !!

I wonder if it has anything to do with the loaf of jalapeno bread I send him each time we get home time. :)

Nice!!! What do we always say here at TruckingTruth? To be a successful trucker that turns the big miles you have to know how to make things happen out there. Well that's an excellent example right there of making things happen!

We need a "creative thinking" list. All of the creative ways to generate more miles for a driver. Sending gifts to dispatch would absolutely make the list!

We had a dispatcher who had run a pizzaria for 10 years previously....He had never been out of NY.....He seriously didn't have a clue.....I sent him a placemat map of the USA.....he LOVED IT.(I was trying to insult him)...So then I got him this HUGE wall map of the USA...he LOVED it...I gave up...he still didn't know where CA was...

We had a dispatcher who had run a pizzaria for 10 years previously....He had never been out of NY.....He seriously didn't have a clue.....I sent him a placemat map of the USA.....he LOVED IT.(I was trying to insult him)...So then I got him this HUGE wall map of the USA...he LOVED it...I gave up...he still didn't know where CA was...

THAT'S funny

Although I must admit that when I was in school I never did memorize all of the locations of the states. I hated biology!

Yea, I know it wasn't biology, it was geometry

We had a dispatcher who had run a pizzaria for 10 years previously....He had never been out of NY.....He seriously didn't have a clue.....I sent him a placemat map of the USA.....he LOVED IT.(I was trying to insult him)...So then I got him this HUGE wall map of the USA...he LOVED it...I gave up...he still didn't know where CA was...

THAT'S funny

Although I must admit that when I was in school I never did memorize all of the locations of the states. I hated biology!

Yea, I know it wasn't biology, it was geometry

Lol! I didn't like it either. Biology was awesome though. Geometry was easier than algebra for me. And geology was, well, parts of it were interesting.

Go ahead and use my idea. Remember dispatchers are human. This is how I look at it. He is a human, which means he has to eat. Good food is something most people like. Homemade breads and cookies are scarce. Free things are always nice. So a homemade food that is sent to you for free must be REALLY good.

Another something I've thought about is that if you sent your dispatch pictures of some of the places you see while you are out there. Maybe it would help them realize you are actually moving miles, not just a dot on a screen.

So you're telling me you were waiting on Donners Pass for 5 days? I live in Sacramento, right down the mountain going west. You should have messaged me my wife would have loved to hang out with you two!

We had a dispatcher who had run a pizzaria for 10 years previously....He had never been out of NY.....He seriously didn't have a clue.....I sent him a placemat map of the USA.....he LOVED IT.(I was trying to insult him)...So then I got him this HUGE wall map of the USA...he LOVED it...I gave up...he still didn't know where CA was...

That right there is funny, I don't care who ya are.

Reminds me of when I was working as a contractor at IBM in Gaithersburg, MD. One of the people found out I was from Montana and said to me: "Montana! Isn't that out by Ohio somewhere?"

At first, I thought she was joking.

She wasn't.