Beginning New Career With PTL. (A Diary)

Once they let you have your load and you're gone, that is the time to briefly tell him the difference between Special and General Relativity and point out the flaws of the cosmological constant.

I love it! and I agree with you on the fact that sometimes it's easiest to outsmart these security guards with stupidity. Sometimes that old saying about fighting fire with fire is really true.

Well kudos to you for what you've gone through with Sleeper Berth. I can relate to what it will feel like to get to say "Adios, Au revoir, til we NEVER meet again!!" He won't last long with those "work" habits. You....you'll be around as long as you want to be and make a lot of money doing so. Well done!

Scott, you are a natural born trucker! That's how you make money at this stuff folks, you've go to be creative and witty to outsmart the ridiculous obstacles that keep rearing their heads. Anytime you can outsmart the system, do it. I can't even begin to tell you how many times a week I have to get creative like this - if you can be on top of your game like this everyday you will make substantially more money than the folks who just get sucker punched day after day.

Old School, is he a natural born trucker or just an evil genius? I bet he eventually teams with his own "Minnie me" but meanwhile he is cracking me up big time. Can't you see the guard huffing and puffing in the side view mirror? He probably waited until the guard ALMOST caught him and then pulled ahead another 50 feet before he "saw" him and stopped. What a maroon!

Jopa

We dropped off in Philly and now have a load going back to Atlanta. I just passed 1/2 way mark for p2 and Line 2 needs 4000 more miles. If they keep sending me to Atlanta I'm thinking about putting in hometime request. I kinda do and kinda don't. I guess that's always the dilemma in this biz. But I can tell by my state of mind that I've been in the truck for a while. The bumping and shaking is irritating me and I'm laying stuff down and forgetting exactly where I laid it. Running team can be very annoying because whenever you are off you can't just lay your phone, wallet, keys etc. down because they will soon be in the floor with w/e charging cables you had attached to them snapped off at the end. I swear that I've never had that happen. Especially not to the brand new tablet I bought.

Worked like a charm. One thing my trainer taught me was play stupid. People will naturally assume that you really are stupid because you drive a truck. (And they work in a guard shack lol) Nothing is more tedious than dealing with someone took dumb to take basic direction so they will let you do what you will rathan try to fight the power of stupidity. Once they let you have your load and you're gone, that is the time to briefly tell him the difference between Special and General Relativity and point out the flaws of the cosmological constant. Thanks for the compliments Old School. From now on, whenever I'm playing stupid I'll think of you.

that's classic

Dropped off trailer at TJ Maxx in Atl and got preplan to pickup at Amazon in Lebanon TN bound for Mesquite TX. That's a 257 mile deadhead so I'm wondering if this is a plan to get my partner back to Murray KY for his upgrade. Especially since the pickup can't be made for 24more hrs.

Asked over the QC if load could be picked up early. Was told by weekend to call Barry. Had no idea who Barry is nor how to call him. Got a # over the QC and called it and was met by gruffness and agitation. Turned out I was instructed to call my load planner on his personal # on his day off. I apologized and said goodbye. About 10 mins later Barry called me back and apologized for his demeanor and explained his frustration with dispatch not answering my questions and pointing me his way. I told him I understood and would never had dialed the number had I known the circumstance. He then told me the load would probably not be picked up one single minute early and that it left a tight time window to get to Mesquite. He then told me that this truck was picked specifically for the load and he was glad he had gotten to speak with me. He actually said "please" when he talked about the load getting there. I replied " you sent me the info on where to get a load and where to take it. I'm gonna do that everytime, Barry. No pleases and sorry's are required. " I'm not sure but I think this is what he wanted to hear. He said the favor would be repaid and mentioned something about "upgrade." I've never been more happier to sit all night in a wal-mart parking lot.

"Upgrade" is always good - unless you upgrade your operating system on your computer without seeing if it's compatible with your favorite software!

I've been following your blog Scott, and am enjoying it. I think you and I have a kindred spirit. Thanks for taking the time to write.

If that guitar youre holding has 4 buttons and is plugged into an Xbox then we are definitely kindred spirits lol. I'm the kinda person who got really confused by truckers saying "deadhead". I thought they were either talking to me directly or generally whining about migrating bands of hippies.

Hey Scott, if the truckin' thing doesn't work out I think you can either do stand up or write for someone who does . . . you are a REALLY funny person and I get to see what you see just by how you describe things . . . thanks for the comic relief!

Jopa