Developing Preferences For Warm Weather

1000%.... I'll take the shutdown every time they offer it.

It's common. Last year it snowed for 2 weeks straight in February. We must've had at least 3 or 4 feet by the time it was done. One of my buddies made a meme about it. I had no where to put it when I shoveled.

1000%.... I'll take the shutdown every time they offer it.

It's common. Last year it snowed for 2 weeks straight in February. We must've had at least 3 or 4 feet by the time it was done. One of my buddies made a meme about it. I had no where to put it when I shoveled.

That's awesome!

I basically moved after I was hired. My terminal has a very difficult time getting me routed to my home in the south. Especially in winter, Denver freight is north and west for the most part for us.

I personally enjoy running in the south, I like being productive and running. The heat doesn't bother me in the summer and I've reached a point in life where I just don't feel like dealing with the cold and snow. That's a contradictory position to what I lived under in the construction world but it's where I'm at in life.

My DM and TM bend over backwards to get me home but it's difficult for them to. I compound the problem by having a home still in Colorado. A solution I tried was to take my home time at our Dallas terminal and fly to Denver and back. It worked for one load, and then gradually routed north and west again.

I really appreciate my relationship with my terminal and don't want to transfer, let alone switch to a different carrier, but at the same time, I've driven enough to begin developing some preferences. Ive done a lifetime of hard labor in cold brutal winters and really don't enjoy it. I'd rather spend my days driving with a smile on face and happy.

For now I guess I'll just grin and bear it, I'm coming up on 100k miles soon, and my first year after that, I don't want to do anything before that happens. I don't want my terminal to have to jump through any more hoops than they already do for me.