How Is Everyone Doing?

Just wondering how everyone is doing it been fairly quiet around here lately. Anything thing fun going on in your lives? Anything you you want to vent or get off your chest??

I had a balloon sinuplasty done on Monday since I've had problems breathing out of my right nostril, took today and yesterday off since I feel like I have a really bad sinus headache. The procedure is not too bad other than hearing bones in your nose break. I just hope the right nostril opens up or I just set 3k on fire, I could have had more fun doing that in Vegas!!

I hope you're breathing better.

We have been working harder because they shut down our Greensboro, NC location. We also have had truck and trailer issues. However we got the equipment that Greensboro had.

Other than that, I am enjoying this job and being home everyday, that's the part my wife likes best.

It's nice to sleep in my bed, use my bathroom and make food in my kitchen. I get to play with my dogs everyday too.

Also on the 16th of this month we got an addition to our family, my young cousin had her first child, a healthy boy.

Wow. Had yoi had the operation first, then heard the voices, you may have blamed the surgery for scrambling your brain 😁

Hope your procedure helps Bobcat. I briefly enjoyed some cool fall weather by Albuquerque but now I'm in Cali for two weeks so I'm back in triple digit temps. But after that I get to enjoy some hometime before the DC show.

I took some time off the truck and went on a cruise to Alaska. I enjoyed every minute, and it's somewhere everyone should go at least once in their life! It was a much needed vacation.

The return to driving however has served me a 💩 sandwich sideways nearly every day. All I can say is potholes can go eat a rather large bag of Richards 🤬

Hope your procedure helps Bobcat.

Thanks! so far no change :(

The return to driving however has served me a 💩 sandwich sideways nearly every day. All I can say is potholes can go eat a rather large bag of Richards 🤬

Been through Indiana lately? I swear driving through the corn fields would be smoother

Hoping you find that $3k worth it and breathing better.

Long time no see lol. I’ve been a busy girl. Doing fine, still at West Side Transport.. same place I started at in very early 2016. They still treat me well. I’m not a fan of this newest cascadia I have. It’s allergic to water.. every time I get in a bunch of rain, my abs goes haywire. Sometimes I can get it to reset, sometimes I can’t then it derates and I get a tow to a dealer 😁. Sometimes I can limp it to a dealer and they clean and dry the sensors off and send me on my merry way til the next monsoon. Currently sitting in a Rock Hill SC dock for the night due to a very late delivery.. it took me 5 hours yesterday to drive from Smyrna TN to our Chattanooga terminal to pick up this load lol. Traffic was absolutely ridiculous bumper to bumper crawling almost the entire way for no discernible reason.. no lanes closed, wasn’t raining.. just crazy and should have taken me maybe 2 hours. Had to love the flooding on I-26 today headed over here, so you KNOW my truck abs is lit up like Christmas tonight as I try to get all the errors to clear.

I finally made it past the 80k mark in this truck since getting it last August. It’s only been towed 5 times and been in the shop a cumulative 4-5 months. It’s allergic to flying pickups as well. (Long story but suffice it to say I had tire marks at the top of my sleeper and they had to rebuild the entire cab from the right front, including the hood, all mirrors, windows, fridge, right door, steps, right dash, all the way around to the back of the cab. I wasn’t injured other than a glass shower and wasn’t ticketed but I did take several weeks off after to decide if I still have the stomach for the daily stupidity out here on the roads. The jury in my head is still out on that)

I seem to drive loaner trucks as much as I drive this one lol.

Another interesting thing is the Company owner finally retired and sold out the company since he had no family able or willing to take it over. Our CFO is now the president of the company and they claim nothing will change lol. West Side Transport is now owned by EVO logistics, a postal contract carrier. The first change was during driver appreciation week.. a big FU to our drivers with 4 legged companions. Apparently due to transportation and lodging difficulties for drivers with pets, those drivers having pets in their trucks will no longer get breakdown pay if a loaner truck is not immediately available for them to use.. apparently many Uber drivers don’t want pets in their vehicles and not all hotels allow them either.

I’m doing excellent these days enjoying my weekends off hanging out on the Tennessee river and working on my forever home.

Great to hear from you. Welcome back

The trucking gods have not liked me the past couple of days. Running my entire clock through terrential downpours, 5 accidents yesterday and everybstate felt rhe need to take several lanes down to 1 for construction. It sucks to drive 470 miles in 11 hours!

Now i am empty and under wind warning! 65 mph gusts

Bob Cat I sure hope your money was well spent and it helps you!!

Susan great to hear from you. Sorry to hear about that wreck. Glad your ok. Seems things just keep getting more stupid everywhere we turn anymore.

Kearsey sounds like you came down to GA. I left out yesterday running a few general freight box van loads, due to weather and time of year my business has fallen off. Still gotta pay the bills.